Senior Research Director
Claudia L. Schur, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Director at L&M Policy Research. Dr. Schur has more than 35 years of experience in health policy research, program evaluation, survey design and implementation, and quantitative and qualitative analysis. She has contributed to a number of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) model evaluations (GPDC/ACO REACH, Pioneer/Advance Payment ACOs, HHVBP, MCCM) applying quantitative and qualitative approaches to assess model impacts and led a synthesis of qualitative evaluation findings from 10 CMMI state-based models.
As part of an evaluation of the District of Columbia’s Medicaid Behavioral Health Transformation demonstration, Dr. Schur led the design of a beneficiary survey and is playing a key role in conducting interviews and listening sessions with DC administrators and behavioral health providers. To assess the feasibility of developing a universal, streamlined system for public benefits enrollment (under contract to the National Council on Aging [NCOA]), she co-led a technical expert panel, conducted a policy analysis of current challenges, and developed recommendations for improvement. In a second phase of the project, she contributed to developing strategies for federal and state program administrators and interested parties to promote streamlining of benefits and increase participation among low-income older adults.
For the Center for Medicaid and CHIP services, she directed the Section 1115 Demonstration Monitoring and Evaluation Support contract, providing technical support to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), including review of a range of state evaluation and monitoring deliverables and development of templates for states with family planning and postpartum coverage demonstrations including identifying monitoring and evaluation metrics to assess utilization and quality. She also led the Pediatric Quality Measures Program-Learning Collaborative, providing support to six grantee teams in synthesizing learnings on measure implementation and led a number of literature reviews, including one to identify evidence-based approaches to scoring that could be applied to the expanded SNF VBP Program design and another to gather evidence on the factors that motivate beneficiaries in choosing Medicare coverage options.
Dr. Schur has designed surveys of a variety of provider populations, including physicians, home health agencies, nurse executives, pharmacy directors, and public health department directors, and has experience conducting qualitative studies using site visits, expert panels, focus groups, and semi-structured telephone interviews.
Dr. Schur’s quantitative research has relied on Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, and private claims data as well as a large number of national health-related surveys to explore access to care for vulnerable populations, choice of insurance coverage, the effect of coverage on use of services, prescription drug spending, and payment issues. Dr. Schur's research has been disseminated in peer-reviewed journals such as Health Affairs, the American Journal of Public Health, and the Journal of Rural Health, as well as through policy briefs and conference presentations.
Dr. Schur holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland.
