SOLICITATION NOTICE
G -- Identify Alternative Measures of Determining Physician's Productivity
- Notice Date
- 8/10/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541720
— Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants Management, 7500 Security Blvd. C2-21-15, Baltimore, MD, 21244-1850
- ZIP Code
- 21244-1850
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-732-5-900502
- Response Due
- 9/24/2005
- Archive Date
- 10/9/2005
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to award on a sole source basis, under Simplified Acquisitions Procedures (Dollar Threshold $100,000) a fixed price government purchase order to Joseph Newhouse, 40 Whitney Tavern Road, Weston, MA. for creation of a new index which accurately reflects the productivity of physicians. Physician productivity is one component of the Medicare Economic Index (MEI), which is used to update Medicare payments to physicians. Part of this process is to identify alternative methodologies which help determine physician productivity. Support generally the Departments statutory responsibilities to pay physicians accurately for the services they provide to Medicare beneficiaries. Define the conceptual issues that must be addressed in developing a measure or measures of physician productivity. Update work previously commissioned by CMS to develop a health sector specific model of physician productivity. Determine if a more refined measure of physician productivity could be applied to the Medicare Economic Index and to see what effect such a measure would have on the current methodology of determining the annual update to the physician fee schedule in Medicare. Determine whether a health-sector model of physician productivity can be substituted for the economy wide measures currently obtained from the Bureau of Labor statistics in the current Medicare physician payment system and to determine whether there are adequate sources of data to sustain a health sector-specific model of physician productivity. Joseph Newhouse is a national expert on multifactor productivity (MFP) for the physician services industry and has demonstrated expertise in the following areas: the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) methodology for multifactor productivity; the Medicare Economic Index (MEI used to recommend updates for Medicare physician payments by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Medicare Payments Advisory Commission (MedPAC); and the various measures or indicators of productivity for physicians services used in the physician services industry and/or academia. National technical expertise to discuss the pros and cons of various measures of productivity for the purpose of updating Medicare payments within the context of the MEI. Joseph P. Newhouse, John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management, is Director of the Interfaculty Initiative on Health Policy and Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education, which administers the PhD program in Health Policy at Harvard, and Chair of the Committee on Higher Degrees in Health Policy. He is a member of the faculties of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as well as a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Health Economics, which he continues to edit. Past member of the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. He has served as the vice-chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), which reviews Medicare payment policy and makes recommendations to the Congress. This Commission resulted from the 1997 merger of two predecessor commissions, the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission and the Physician Payment Review Commission. Joseph Newhouse chaired the former Commission and served as a Commissioner on the latter. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and has served two terms on its governing council. He is a past president of the Association for Health Services Research and of the International Health Economics Association and is the inaugural President of the American Society of Health Economics. All responsible sources may submit capability statements, which shall be considered by the agency in accordance with the requirements in the synopsis. Responsible sources must demonstrate an equal level of expertise.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850
- Record
- SN00867018-W 20050812/050810212001 (fbodaily.com)
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