RECOVERY - Medicaid Analytic Extracts (MAX) Data Warehouse to Support Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)

RECOVERY - CMS intends to award a Task Order under its contract HHSM-500-2010-00001I for Medicaid Analytic Extracts (MAX) Data Warehouse to Support Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER). MAX data are person-level data files on Medicaid eligibility, service utilization and payment information. MAX transforms the state-submitted Medicaid and CHIP data into individual-level use and cost research-ready data in five file types: Personal Summary (including eligibility), Inpatient Hospital, Long-Term Care (institutional services), Pharmacy, and Other Services (physician services, therapies, DME, and community long-term care services). MAX Data Warehouse objectives: • Establish a MAX data warehouse and load MAX 1999-2006 data. • Add additional years of MAX data as they become available. • Build a data extraction system to deliver customized MAX data extract files with minimum data necessary to the research community. • Support CER researchers by providing MAX data. MAX files are a version of the Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS) data for researchers. When fully populated, MAX files combine demographic and claims data from all States to reveal a more optimal picture of activity in and across states that cannot be accomplished through MSIS-submitted data alone without considerable ad hoc data processing. By merging demographic and claims information, and other means of transforming the data, CMS and external data users conduct a variety of studies pertaining to health services research and policy development. The MAX data are an extremely important data source for a number of important CMS research and policy analysis activities. Other Federal agencies and approved users also rely on the MAX database for research and policy analysis related to Medicaid populations. Studies based on these data continue to contribute to empirical research on the impact of the Medicaid and CHIP and contribute to health care policy development presently and, as intended, for the future. The period of performance is twenty-four months.