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Abstract #165838

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Wendy Funk, MS, Kennell and Associates, Inc., 3130 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 505, Falls Church, VA 22042-4550, 703-269-6157, wfunk@kennellinc.com

Wendy Funk is the Project Director for a Kennell-RTI-IFMC project to evaluate and promote CMS's new Medicare Chronic Condition Data Warehouse (CCW). She is also an expert SAS programmer with extensive experience in programming with extremely large data sets.

This session will present a summary of diabetes statistics produced from the CCW data files through a CMS-sponsored project. Ms. Funk will present a variety of statistics, including cost and utilization, quality of care, and outcomes measures. She will describe methodological approaches to calculating various beneficiary-level statistics, file format of available statistics, and key issues to consider when aggregating these statistics. The presentation will highlight some of the advantages to using the CCW data files and their usefulness in exploring chronic disease (and associated costs) among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.

Learning Objectives:

• Attendees will come away with a better understanding of how to use the new CMS Chronic Condition Data Warehouse to explore chronic disease and associated costs among Medicare beneficiaries.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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