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Principal Scientist
RTI International
Ellicott City, Maryland, United States
Melvin Ingber is currently a health services researcher at RTI International working on issues of payment, quality and evaluations mainly related to Medicare and Medicaid. His background education was in physics through a master's degree, and then in economics concentrating on health economics for his PhD. After some time in academia teaching, and supervising dissertations he went to the Health Care Financing Administration (currently Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) and worked on a wide variety is issues. He was the government lead in developing risk adjustment systems for paying Medicare managed care plans and drug plans. He also worked on pay for performance systems, quality measures based on hospital readmissions, survey sampling, and evaluation of demonstrations.
After 16 years he moved to RTI and, while continuing the risk adjustment development, worked on the new CARE patient assessment instrument, quality measures for post-acute care (PAC) and payment systems for PAC. Beyond this, he worked on the HHA and ICH CAHPS surveys. He directed a nine year project evaluating an initiative to reduce hospitalizations for long-term care residents. Another area of activity is evaluating managed care plans for Medicare/Medicaid dualy eligible people.
Development of the Prototype Unified Post-Acute Care Prospective Payment System
Monday, October 30, 2023
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM