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L&M welcomes new Senior Research Director

L&M is excited to announce its newest Senior Research Director, Dr. Claudia L. Schur! Dr. Schur has more than 25 years of experience in health policy research, survey design and implementation, program evaluation, and quantitative and qualitative analysis. Prior to joining L&M, she was the Vice President of Health Policy and Data Analysis a...

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L&M releases decade of insights into consumer perceptions of health care quality

L&M Policy Research released a new report synthesizing lessons learned from a decade of research on consumer and patient perceptions of health care quality. L&M summarized over 10 years of cross-cutting research conducted from 2001 to 2013 on use of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) quality “Compare” websites. The repo...

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AHRQ awards L&M a Planning, Evaluation, and Analysis (PEATOC) IDIQ contract

The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) awarded L&M an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to perform a range of research tasks supporting the agency’s planning and evaluation work. Task order work issued under this contract may include: Evaluation design studies and program evaluationsEconomic, cost-benefit...

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CMS releases initial findings from L&M evaluation of Innovation Center ACO initiatives

On Jan. 30, 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released initial evaluation findings from its Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Medicare Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) initiative. These findings come from the mixed-methods evaluation L&M Policy Research (L&M) is conducting on behalf o...

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L&M to assist CMS with the development of the Health Insurance Exchange Web tools mandated under ACA

Under the firm’s Consumer Research and Communications (CRC) umbrella contract, L&M was awarded a task order to conduct qualitative consumer research to inform the development of Web tools for the health insurance exchanges (HIX) mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). During the 18-month period of performance, L&M, with our subcontractor...

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