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NORC at the University Chicago
Supporting innovative solutions to make health care more affordable and effective.

Transforming our nation’s costly and complex health care system requires nuanced analyses that generate actionable insights. Whether it’s assessing the consequences and costs of care choices, easing the burden of chronic diseases, understanding health care markets, assessing potential complementarities across allied health and social services programs, improving patient-centeredness and participation, or evaluating impacts of newer payment and care delivery models, NORC delivers rigorous research with reliable data that innovators can act on.

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Shriram Parashuram
Principal Health Economist

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Evaluation of the Vermont All-Payer Accountable Care Organization Model

Evaluating Vermont’s efforts to improve health outcomes and reduce health care spending

Client:

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Evaluation of the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model

Assessing CMS’s innovative ACO model to improve outcomes and reduce costs for Medicare beneficiaries

Client:

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Evaluating Rhode Island's Medicaid Comprehensive Waiver

Evaluation of programs implemented under Rhode Island’s Medicaid section 1115 demonstration

Client:

Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services