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

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, discerning effects of social determinants of health and approaches to advance health equity, 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

Applied Health Economics Experts

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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

Evaluating Rhode Island’s Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration

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

Client:

Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services

Evaluation of the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model

Assessing an innovative model to reduce Medicare costs

Client:

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