Medicare’s Hospital Quality Initiative aims to improve the quality of care while collecting and reporting clearly defined and objective hospital performance data. AIR tracked and analyzed performance data for about 160 rural hospitals to identify hospitals performing well and those requiring assistance. ...
The Affordable Care Act established health insurance marketplaces where millions of consumers can sign up for health plans. AIR provides technical, analytical, policy, and operational support to the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight Marketplace Plan Management Group.
The Kidney Care Choices Model is an accountable care organization that aims to help providers improve outcomes and reduce cost of care for patients with late-stage chronic kidney disease and ESRD by encouraging home dialysis and kidney transplantation. AIR is working with RTI on technical parts of this work. ...
More than 550,000 Medicare beneficiaries have end-stage renal disease. AIR supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in efforts to improve care for people with chronic kidney disease.
Abigail Woodroffe has over 10 years of experience supporting and managing large, complex projects for federal clients, including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and Veterans Health Administration. Her primary responsibilities include study and project ...
Kelly J. Devers is vice president of health market strategy and business development at AIR. She is also deputy director of AIR’s Health Division. She has 30 years of experience conducting health services and policy research and is a widely recognized expert in alternative payment models, the organization and delivery ...
Brandy Farrar is an Institute Fellow at AIR. She has over 20 years of experience identifying evidence-based best practices for designing and implementing policies and programs aimed at improving the quality of access to, and capacity of health and human services. She serves as a subject matter expert in the ...
Andrea Amodeo leads projects and technical activities in quality and performance improvement, patient safety, and learning and diffusion. Specific areas of expertise include job and task analysis, needs assessments, survey design and implementation, training development and evaluation, and team performance. Throughout her career, Amodeo has applied her expertise in a variety ...
Meshell Hicks has focused her career on helping to expand access to quality health care.Drawing on 20 years of policy, operations and project management experience supporting public payers, Hicks directs a wide array of federally facilitated Marketplace exchange research and stakeholder engagement projects for the Center for Consumer Information and ...
Kennan Murray's primary responsibilities include leading projects and tasks related to the collection, management, analysis, and reporting of complex health care data for use in quality improvement initiatives, health care payment policy, and outcomes evaluation.Murray has extensive experience collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative research data on topics including health ...
