Megan Nicholson
Senior Data Scientist
Seattle, WA, US
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Integration of social determinants of health into Medicaid managed care risk adjustment: Considerations and financial impacts
15 June 2025 - by Rong Yi, Jeffrey G. Milton-Hall, Nicholas Gersch, Brian Merkey, Megan Nicholson
Integration of SDOH into Medicaid risk adjustment yields a small but measurable reduction in volatility and variation of financial results, our study found.
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Streamlining provider profiling with focused reference data
16 January 2025 - by Megan Nicholson, Brian Merkey
In this paper, we present an alternative approach to understanding healthcare markets using a small number of well-constructed summary tables that together allow for the flexibility of a comprehensive claims dataset without the corresponding storage, maintenance, and analysis costs.