Research Data Assistance Center

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The Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC) is a CMS contractor that provides free assistance to academic, government and non-profit researchers interested in using Medicare and/or Medicaid data for their research. ResDAC is staffed by a consortium of epidemiologists, public health specialists, health services researchers, biostatisticians, and health informatics specialists from the University of Minnesota.

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What's New

 

• Important Information about Emails Received from ResDAC (posted 5/14/12)

• Data ALERT: 2009 MCBS Cost and Use Now Available (posted 5/11/12)

• SAVE THE DATE: CMS 102 Medicaid Workshop in Minneapolis, MN, August 15-16, 2012 (posted 5/2/12)

• ResDAC seminar, Using Medicare Data for Comparative Effectiveness Research, being held at AcademyHealth (posted 4/30/12)

• Online Submission of Requests through RRTS No Longer Available (posted 4/6/12)

• Data Privacy Safeguard Program (DPSP) Team - One-on-One Guidance Sessions Now Available (posted 3/30/12)

• Data ALERT: New Master Beneficiary Summary File now available (posted 3/7/12)

• Data ALERT: Cause of Death information now available for Medicare and Medicaid recipient (posted 3/7/12)

• Upcoming Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative webinar series (posted 2/10/12)

• 2010 MCBS Access to Care data now available (posted 2/10/12)

• ALERT: ResDAC e-mail down on Tuesday 1/24 & Wednesday 1/25 (posted 1/26/12)

• Qualified Entity Program Online Application Opens January 9th (posted 1/5/12)

• 2007 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey - Administrative Data (RIC A) Update to Cost and Use File (posted 10/27/11)

• ALERT: FY10 LDS MedPAR proposed rule file POA Indicator (posted 10/20/11)

• Data ALERT: anomaly in the 2010 PSPS file. (posted 9/26/11)

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