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Methods

The conceptual and technical innovation of our project to examine pediatric concurrent care lies in using interdisciplinary expertise with sophisticated analytic tools (e.g., instrumental variable analysis and incremental costs analysis) to create a unique, nationally represented data set to provide important insight about a relatively unexamined and federally-mandated end of life intervention.

MAX: The Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) data is a set of person-level data files on Medicaid eligibility, service utilization, and payments. The MAX data are created to support research and policy analysis. source link

T-MSIS (TAF): The Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) Analytic Files (TAF) Research Identifiable Files (RIF) are a research-optimized version of T-MSIS data and serve as a data source tailored to meet the broad research needs of the Medicaid and CHIP data user community. These files include data on Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollment, demographics, service utilization and payments. source link

Comparison of MAX and T-MSIS (TAF) — the following link provides a Table and discussion about the comparison used as Methods for this research.