Chuck is an expert at using health care claims data to develop cost, quality, and utilization metrics in Medicaid, Medicare, and private health insurance, and variations in state implementation of public policy. He can perform multivariate regression analyses to identify causal mechanisms in evaluation studies. He is also knowledgeable about hospital and physician payment methods, including all-payer alternative payments such as global budgeting. He has organized and performed analyses with all-payer claims databases (APCDs) in several states NORC works with including Maryland and California. He manages teams of junior analysts and ensures NORC completes tasks according to contract requirements, schedule, and budget, and anticipates and mitigates potential challenges.

Chuck is currently project director for analytic work for the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI)’s APCD and the Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) all-payer Total Cost of Care System. He also led a study of a hospital global budgeting system in New Mexico for the state Legislature and qualitative case study analyses of state Medicaid EPSDT programs for contracts with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). 

Before coming to NORC, Chuck was a principal researcher with The Hilltop Institute at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he worked on projects involving Medicaid tobacco costs and Medicaid ACA expansion for Mississippi. He also worked on projects evaluating Medicaid managed care performance for Maryland and performed similar duties for the Ohio Medicaid program. He developed familiarity with Medicare payment policy as a budget analyst at the Congressional Budget Office and served as chief of special projects at the Maryland HSCRC.