Data Analytic Technical Support for State Medicaid Agencies

Expression of Interest Form

The purpose of this expression of interest form is for the Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program (IAP) to gain a better sense of your state’s efforts to develop, implement, or increase your capacity in data analytics as part of advancing Medicaid-specific delivery system reforms.

General Information

Name of your state Medicaid agency: Click here to enter text.

Please indicate the following:

The State Medicaid Director acknowledges that the state is seeking this IAP technical support:

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The State Medicaid Director acknowledges that the team has or will have sufficient staff time and resources committed to this effort:

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Please provide contact information for the State Medicaid Agency Project Team Lead who will lead this work day-to-day, not including the State Medicaid Director[1]:

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Please provide names, titles, role on the project, and e-mail addresses of your team members. Teams of all sizes are welcome to apply:

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Please attach brief bios of team members including roles/functions and relevant experience, regardless of their level of data analytic expertise.

Program Details

The goal for this IAP opportunity is to support state Medicaid agencies in their Medicaid delivery system reform efforts by improving data analytic capacity. To assist states in this process, IAP is offering targeted technical support regarding data analytics to state Medicaid agencies. This opportunity is open to states at all levels of expertise in data analytics, regardless of the size of the team. States will collaborate with IAP to receive this one-on-one data analytic technical support in one or more of the following areas:

●  Developing a data analytic strategy for analyzing a state’s Medicaid program Examples include: Identifying and understanding various data sources related to a state’s Medicaid population (e.g., enrollment, utilization rates, and costs by beneficiary type or subpopulations).

●  Using data to drive programmatic decision-making Examples include: Developing and executing strategies to identify key data sources, summarize data, and create reports with data visualization for decision makers.

●  Improving statistical programming and data modeling skills Examples include: Improving efficiencies in data management, support in choosing statistical software, selecting statistical tests and data models through state coaching and code review.

●  Planning projects to integrate non-Medicare data sets with Medicaid data Examples include: Linking Medicaid claims with housing records or public health data.

●  Developing transfer protocols for sharing data with stakeholders Examples include: Designing dashboards that allow for data manipulation and visualization while maintaining data security.

A.  What areas of data analytic support would be most helpful to your state’s Medicaid analytic activities? (check the top two areas of need)

☐ Developing a data analytic strategy for analyzing a state’s Medicaid program

☐ Using data to drive programmatic decision-making

☐ Improving statistical programming and data modeling skills

☐ Planning projects to integrate non-Medicare data sets with Medicaid data

☐ Developing transfer protocols for sharing data with stakeholders

☐ Other, please specify in Section B below

B.  Please provide a brief description of the specific data analytic need related to Medicaid delivery system reform for which you are seeking technical support. Describe any ongoing or planned activities for this area (including progress to-date), the general stage of development (formative, planning, partial implementation, etc.), the desired outcome(s), and any other information your state believes is important for IAP to understand about your technical support project proposal.

In answering this question, please be as specific as possible when describing your needs and take into consideration that the duration of technical support is only up to 12 months. This will help IAP assess the amount of resources needed and ensure that we can start supporting your work shortly after states are selected. Please keep your reply to one page of double-spaced text in 12-point Times New Roman font.

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C.  As it relates to your response in Section B, what are the most significant gaps in your state’s capacity to use Medicaid-related data analytics?

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D.  What topics would your state be interested in learning more about through national webinars open to all states?

☐ Predictive analytics

☐ Data mining

☐ Statistical analysis

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Form Submission and Notification

Submit a completed Expression of Interest via email to by January 9, 2017, at midnight ET. All states that submit an Expression of Interest will be contacted by IAP for a one-on-one conference call to discuss state goals and needs as well as questions about the program support offered. IAP will notify the selected states by March 2017.

Additional information about these program support opportunities can be found on Medicaid.gov IAP page: Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program (IAP).

For questions about this Medicaid IAP opportunity, contact Jessie Parker at .

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[1] Note: It is assumed that the State Medicaid Director will remain engaged and play an important role in this work, but will not be responsible for leading this work on a day-to-day basis.