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Cheryl L. Damberg
Senior Policy Researcher
Cheryl Damberg, PhD, is a Senior Researcher at RAND, with 18 years of experience as a health policy analyst and researcher for the government and private industry. Her areas of expertise include pay for performance, quality measurement, patient safety, consumer-directed health plans, and assessing the impact of health care reform initiatives on quality and costs.
Dr. Damberg has led a number of pay for performance (P4P) program evaluations, including the Integrated Healthcare Association's P4P program, which is the largest P4P program in operation in the U.S. She is currently the Principal Investigator on a project funded by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that is examining the use of episodes of care as a basis for payment and for performance accountability, and is a co-investigator on the evaluation of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)-Premier hospital pay for performance demonstration. During the past year, Dr. Damberg served as the Principal Investigator on a project to examine the state-of-the-art in hospital pay for performance and assist the CMS with developing a plan for value-based purchasing of Medicare hospital services. In 2005/2006, Dr. Damberg served as co-Principal Investigator on a study of physician pay for performance and its application to the Medicare fee schedule for the U.S. DHHS.
Dr. Damberg is a lead investigator on the RAND–Watson Wyatt three-year study of Consumer Directed Health Plans, and is the co-Principal Investigator on a six-year evaluation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's patient safety initiative.
Dr. Damberg's prior professional experience includes working as Research Director to the Pacific Business Group on Health, a Senior Consultant to Fortune 100 firms for the MEDSTAT Group and as a Research Fellow for the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Dr. Damberg received her Ph.D. in Public Policy from the RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies and a Masters of Public Health from the University of Michigan.
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