Client Projects
The Patient Safety Measure Development and Maintenance Project issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) involves a structured process to identify, define, and refine measures that assess and improve patient safety within healthcare settings. Key aspects include defining measure specifications, gathering data, and ensuring the measures are scientifically sound, feasible, and relevant to patient care.
This project tests new approaches to estimating the combined effects of the U.S. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) models, to provide quantitative evidence regarding whether and to what extent
The Payment Standardization Calculation and Application Project is an initiative by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to standardize how payments are calculated for healthcare services under Medicare Parts A, B, and D. This involves creating standardized claim payment amounts that allow CMS to accurately measure and compare provider resource use across different regions and payment systems.
Making Cents International implements USAID’s IDAMS activity to support the Agency in increasing effectiveness of its development programs around the world. Awarded as a task order under the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Services II (EVAL ME II) IDIQ, IDAMS provides vital support to USAID Missions and Operating Units in identifying, assessing the needs of, engaging with, and supporting the priorities of individuals and communities that face various social and economic barriers.
The Division of Economic and Health Policy Research conducts independent research to support AMA federal, state and private sector advocacy agendas.
One of the division’s most significant efforts is the Physician Practice Benchmark Survey, which focuses on the practice arrangements and payment methodologies of physicians who take care of patients for at least 20 hours per week and don't work for the federal government.
The Benchmark Surveys have been conducted on an every-other-year basis since 2012. Policy Research Perspective reports, based on the surveys, provide detailed analysis of the data.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) goal of this project is to assist with measure development and testing for the Hospital-Wide Mortality (HWM) hybrid and HWM claims-only measures. This includes providing consulting support to the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation team and defining key data elements.
The Rockefeller Foundation's $100 million Precision Public Health Initiative works to make community health more proactive and responsive to patient and population needs. While advances like big data and artificial intelligence are beginning to revolutionize health care in high-income countries, they often fail to reach lower-income countries with the greatest need. Through this initiative, data is leveraged to not only improve health outcomes, but also to prevent disease, illness, and pandemics before they occur.
Côte d’Ivoire has achieved notable advances in increasing access to secondary education in recent years. While significant progress has been made, low enrollment and gender and regional disparities persist. The Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Government of Côte d’Ivoire are addressing these education shortfalls and other challenges through a Compact signed in November 2017. The goal of this project is to assess the impact and contributions of the Secondary Education Activity in Côte d’Ivoire on student, teacher, and school outcomes using a mixed-methods approach that relies on administrative, primary quantitative, and qualitative data.
In November 2015, the Millennium Challenge Corporation signed the five-year, $450 million Employability and Land Compact with the Government of Morocco, intended to improve economic growth and investment in Morocco through high-quality education and land productivity. This project is focused on evaluating the effectiveness of the Workforce Development Activity using a mixed-methods approach, which will rely on both quantitative and qualitative data to strengthen the validity of the findings.