The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded a $7,607,538.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to the RAND Corporation to model improvements to the current Practice Expense (PE) methodology and develop alternative approaches for determining PE Relative Value Units (RVUs), including the data and mechanisms for regularly updating such data. The contract is a delivery order under the Research Measurement Assessment Design and Analysis (RMADA)...
This federal contract award, valued at $8,321,322.00, was issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit global policy think tank. The contract is for the Rand Corporation to analyze and develop alternative methods for measuring practice expenses and related inputs to support updates to the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) payment system. This work is part of the "Alternative Methods for Measuring Practice Expenses" major program. The...
This federal contract award, valued at $9,230,913.00, was issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Professional Services Schedule (PSS) contract vehicle. The prime contractor is The RAND Corporation, a nonprofit global policy think tank. The contract is for the implementation of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys for the Medicare Shared Savings Program and Physician Quality Reporting System. Notable subcontractors include...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded a non-severable contract valued at $9,219,052.77 to the RAND Corporation to implement the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys for the Medicare Shared Savings Program, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, and Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model from May 2, 2018 through July 30, 2021. No set-aside was used. As prime contractor, RAND subcontracted implementation work to Westat, Inc.,...
This is a $7,011,212 delivery order contract awarded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to The RAND Corporation (Rand Corp) for the MEDICARE GROUND AMBULANCE DATA COLLECTION program. The contract utilizes the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) vehicle and is a Time and Materials pricing type agreement with an ultimate completion date of August 25, 2027. There is no set-aside designation for this award. Rand Corp, a nonprofit global policy think tank, will provide analytical...
This is a $4,026,176.85 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to The RAND Corporation, a nonprofit global policy think tank. The contract supports the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and is for advancing clinical decision support. It does not have a set-aside designation. RAND provides research and analysis services to improve policy and decision-making across a variety of federal agencies, including HHS, the...
This is a firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration (a civilian agency) to the RAND Corporation, a non-profit global policy think tank, for $267,208.83. The contract is for the "Dissemination and Adoption of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Findings When Findings Do Not Support Current Practices" and is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The contract does not utilize any set-aside...
This is a federal contract award to The RAND Corporation, a nonprofit global policy think tank, by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC V) program. The contract is for "METHODS AND DISSEMINATION: COLLABORATION TO IMPROVE VALIDITY, CONSISTENCY, AND UTILITY OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS," with a ceiling value of $202,760.52 and a completion date of August 31, 2019. The contract is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee Delivery Order under the EPC V...
This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee delivery order contract awarded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR), a non-profit research organization. The contract, which is part of the Research Measurement Assessment Design and Analysis (RMADA) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, has a ceiling value of $22,131,674.11 and provides professional support services. The contract does not have a small...
This is a federal contract award to The RAND Corporation, a nonprofit global policy think tank, from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for the National Defense Research Institute Federally Funded Research and Development Center. The $192,345,350.44 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract provides for research and analytical services in support of national security, homeland security, public health, and civilian policy areas. The award is not set aside for small businesses. Major subcontractors include...