Gregory Peterson

Gregory Peterson has technical and substantive interest in the effectiveness of care coordination and disease management for people with chronic illnesses; studying approaches for improving the delivery of primary care and assessing their effectiveness; and approaches for helping people who need long-term care services and supports live independently in their communities.

Peterson currently serves as the project director of a multiyear evaluation of the Extended Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration. This project is analyzing qualitative information, estimating program impacts on Medicare service use and costs and quality of care, and synthesizing implementation findings and impact estimates to draw inferences about program features that contributed to improved outcomes. In addition, he is a task leader for an evaluation of primary care redesign initiatives funded through the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Care Innovation Awards. Peterson also leads an assessment of the impacts of waiting periods for Medicaid home and community-based services on consumers and Medicaid costs.

Before joining Mathematica in 2008, Peterson served as an analyst for the Government Accountability Office. He holds a Ph.D. in health policy from the School of Public Policy and Administration at George Washington University and an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.