My experience as a healthcare consultant includes measuring price distribution in childcare markets,
insurance denial management, and cost of living research for the elderly.
Sample Projects:
Child Care Price Estimation
For eight years I have been performing child care pricing studies for the states of
Delaware and
Massachusetts,
and most recently for the county of
Palm
Beach Florida. The Family Support Act allows states and municipalities to reimburse child care
costs to certain welfare recipients up to the seventy fifth percentile of the local market price for
child care. These projects involve estimating the seventy fifth percentile price based on annual
surveys of state-wide child care providers. The challenges are (1) to develop
a sampling design that produces estimates that are efficient and equitable
across counties; (2) to estimate seventy fifth percentile prices for a range
of child care types; and (3) to assess the sampling variability of the
estimates obtained. The states use the results to set rate ceilings for
publicly purchased child care services.
Read a
published paper on the statistical methodology in .pdf format.
Sample Design and Inference for Healthcare Data
My recent contract (January 2003) with Best
Practice Associates involved creating
an experimental design for a large healthcare data set.
The data and nature of the project are proprietary.
