Support for the Comprehensive End-Stage Renal Disease Care Model

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation is implementing a new service delivery and payment model for Medicare beneficiaries with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). The goal is to improve health outcomes, quality of care, and efficiency for this vulnerable, expensive population. The design follows that of an accountable care organization for ESRD beneficiaries. It provides financial incentives to dialysis facilities, nephrologists, and other Medicare ESRD providers and suppliers to collaborate and address the needs of these beneficiaries while improving outcomes and reducing costs.

IMPAQ is leveraging its Health and Technology Solutions Divisions to conduct data analyses using the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Integrated Data Repository and provide raw claims data to program participants. We are also integrating data from multiple sources to implement the Comprehensive ESRD Care Model’s quality strategy.

This contract builds on our history of Medicare claims analysis and implementation and evaluation work as well as our subject matter expertise in innovative health care payment models. The experts working on this project include experienced research economists and research scientists.