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Randall S. Brown
Vice President; Director, NJ Health Research, Health Research Division
Randall Brown is an expert in health care policy issues related to care for the chronically ill, long-term care, managed care, and quality of care. His work has dealt primarily with Medicare and Medicaid populations.
Brown, who oversees health services research in Mathematica's NJ office, is nationally known for his evaluations of care coordination and disease management programs for Medicare beneficiaries, as well as studies of long-term care issues and Medicare managed care. As area leader for the firm’s work with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from 2000 to 2007, he oversaw scores of studies funded by this agency. He has also directed studies for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Kaiser Family Foundation.
Brown led the study team that received the 2009 Health Services Research Impact Award from AcademyHealth for work on the Cash & Counseling Demonstration, a three-state demonstration that tested an innovative form of expanded consumer direction for Medicaid beneficiaries who are frail or have disabilities. The award recognizes outstanding examples of the positive impact of research on health policy or practice. He also was senior author on a paper on care coordination published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that was awarded Best Paper in 2009 by both AcademyHealth and the National Institute for Health Care Management. His current work includes designing and directing additional evaluations of disease management and coordinated care programs, and he directs a major study for the Minnesota Department of Health to develop rankings of all hospitals and physician practices on the quality and cost efficiency of their health care services. He is also principal investigator for Mathematica’s evaluation of a long-term care program that provides transitional support to enable Medicaid beneficiaries in institutions to return to the community.
Brown, who has been with the firm since 1977, has prepared five reports to Congress, briefed congressional staff, published in peer-reviewed journals, and made numerous presentations at professional meetings. He has also served on Mathematica’s board of directors and on the board of directors for the Center for Studying Health System Change, an affiliate of the company that analyzes change in the U.S. health care system. He has participated in numerous advisory boards and expert panels for federal government agencies and foundations. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Costs and quality of care for the chronically ill, long-term care recipients, and managed care enrollees
- Medicare and Medicaid populations
- Care coordination and disease management programs
- Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration
- Minnesota’s Health Reform Initiative: Provider Peer Grouping
- Evaluation of the Money Follows the Person Grant Program
- Member, AcademyHealth Methods Council
- Member, boards of directors, Mathematica and Center for Studying Health System Change
- Member, numerous advisory boards and expert panels for federal government agencies and foundations
- "Strategies for Reining in Medicare Spending Through Delivery System Reforms: Assessing the Evidence and Opportunities" (September 2009)
- "Effects of Care Coordination on Hospitalization, Quality of Care, and Health Care Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries: 15 Randomized Trials." Journal of the American Medical Association (February 2009)
- "The Research Design and Methodological Issues for the Cash and Counseling Evaluation." Health Services Research (February 2007)