The Population Health Data Initiative hosted three webinars as a part of our PHDI Medicare Mini-Series: Make Medicare Data Work for You. View recordings from one or all sessions to learn more about using Medicare data to support your research and hear from colleagues from the UCSF research community doing similar work. Please email Victoria So ([email protected]) if you have questions.

Learn more about CMS Data Reuse at UCSF here.

PHDI Medicare Mini-Series: Make Medicare Data Work for You

Session 1: Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 12-1 pm

In this first session, we focus on an overview of the datasets and how to access them via UCSF’s Research Analysis Environment (RAE).

Watch the recorded session, here!

Session 2: Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 12-1 pm

In this second session, UCSF researchers share examples of Medicare data used in their research projects.

Watch the recorded session, here!

Guest speakers:

Dr. Julia Adler-Milstein - Evaluating Large Scale Policy Interventions on Primary Care Practice Outcomes Using Medicare Data

Dr. Taressa Fraze - Configuration and Delivery of Primary Care in Rural and Urban Settings

Dr. Ulrike Muench - Nurse Practioner Buprenorphine Prescribing in Medicare Beneficiaries after the 2016 Opioid Bill

Dr. Matthew Growdon - Peri-hospitalization Prescribing of Psychotropic Medications in Older Adults with Dementia

Dr. Elan Guterman and Rachel Kiekhofer - The Care Ecosystem: The Treatment Effect of Demetia Care Navigation on Emergency Room Visits and Total Cost of Care

Dr. Lauren Hunt - Hospice Disenrollment among People with Dementia: Variation, Patterns, and Predictors

Session 3: Wednesday, June 8, 2022, 12-1 pm

In this final session, participants bring their projects and we brainstorm how Medicare Claims data can be used for research.

Watch the recorded session, here!