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Anne Deutsch

Researcher
RTI international
Naperville, Illinois, United States

Anne Deutsch is a Senior Research Public Health Analyst at RTI International, a Clinical Research Scientist at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and A Research Associate Professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a certified rehabilitation registered nurse with a doctoral degree in Epidemiology and Community Health. She has worked on several contracts funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, including the Post-Acute Care Payment Reform Demonstration, the IRF and LTCH Experience of Care Survey Development project, and the Symptom Management project that developed and implemented the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility, Long-Term Care Hospital and Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Programs and implemented sections of the Improving Medicare Post Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act. She was part of the team that developed the standardized data elements included in the CARE Tool and implemented and tested these data elements as part of the Post-Acute Care Reform Demonstration. She was also the RTI lead for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Quality Reporting Program (2011- 2018) team and the Functional status quality metric team (2012 - 2019). In these roles, Anne had a significant role in developing training materials, providing training and answering help desk questions, which drew on her experiences working as a clinical nurse in acute and inpatient rehabilitation, her prior training experiences and her measure development work. Anne also worked on a contract funded by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and CMS focused on developing a unified payment system for post-acute care, which relies on the analysis of standardized patient assessment data elements. Anne has served on many expert panels, including the panels sponsored by the Institute of Medicine, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the National Quality Forum, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the Administration for Community Living and the World Health Organization.

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