CHAS is supporting an interdisciplinary working group of faculty and Fellows to bring to the University of Chicago the most recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ MAX files.
The group will be among the first to use a national panel of MAX files to assess program-wide performance and disease prevalence both at a single point in time and over several years. The working group’s findings will allow state Medicaid programs and federal policymakers to understand how shifts in the external policy environment are impacting the care of Medicaid beneficiaries, and will additionally facilitate efforts to identify opportunities to improve the coordination of resources for the growing Medicaid population.
Long-term Research Goals of the Medicaid (MAX) Working Group
The group seeks to examine trends in the following areas:
- quality of care delivered to pediatric and adult Medicaid beneficiaries in the inpatient, outpatient, and long-term care settings;
- health care utilization and expenditures in the Medicaid program;
- disease prevalence among Medicaid beneficiaries.

Work Group Members

Kao-Ping Chua, PhD, MD
University of Michigan

Marshall Chin, MD, MPH
Dept. of Medicine

Rena Conti, PhD
Dept. of Public Health Sciences

Colleen Grogan, PhD
School of Social Service Administration

Elbert Huang, MD, MPH
Dept. of Medicine

Tamara Konetzka, PhD
Dept. of Public Health Sciences

Jeanne Marsh, PhD, MSW
School of Social Service Administration

Harold Pollack, PhD
School of Social Service Administration

Prachi Sanghavi, MD, PhD
Dept. of Medicine

Deborah Stulberg, MD, MA
Dept. of Family Medicine