Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends (CFACT): Staff Biography

D.E.B. Potter, M.S.

Position
Senior Survey Statistician

Education
M.S. Biostatistics, Georgetown University, 1984

Research Interests
Survey design and data collection methods
Design and implementation of an integrated Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) data system to support long-term care health services research
Estimation methods for health care surveys
Interviewer's use of computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI)
Statistical techniques to limit data disclosure of confidential data

Technical Assistance and Survey Contributions
Chair, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Nursing Home Component (MEPS-NHC) data editing groups
Co-lead, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Long-term Care Research and Data Development Group
Member of AHRQ's Disparities Report Task Force
Member of HHS's Data Strategies Work Group
Member of HHS's Provider Information Data Work Group (PIDWG)
Member of Federal Inter-Agency Forum on Aging's Work Group on Data Needs
Member of HHS's Essential Provider Information Circle (EPIC)
Chair (2001), Federal Inter-Agency Committee of CASIC Managers
Senior technical advisor on the National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) and MEPS-NHC data files

Survey Experience
Project Manager, MEPS-NHC Survey and the NMES Institutional Population Component Feasibility Study
Senior Methodologist, MEPS-NHC design and CAPI development
Manager, NMES Health Status Questionnaire (HS), Institutional Population Component (IPC), Health Insurance Plans Survey (HIPS), Survey of American Indians and Alaska Natives (SAIAN), and MEPS-NHC public use file efforts and associated workshops
Development of estimation methods, survey sampling weights, data disclosure methods and CFACT Data Center
Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), National Nursing Home Survey (NNHS), National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS), National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), and NHCHS
Medicare and Medicaid claims
Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) Minimum Data Sets (MDS) and Online Survey, Certification, and Reporting System (OSCAR) data; medical provider data [e.g., Provider of Service, Inventory of Long-term Care Places (ILTCP), National Health Provider Inventory (NHPI), American Hospital Association (AHA), Area Resource File (ARF)]
Other long-term care surveys (e.g., Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning & Evaluation (ASPE), American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)); cancer epidemiology and Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) data; Current Population Survey (CPS) and others

Awards
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), Administrator's Award of Merit, 1991
AHRQ, Administrator's Citation for Outstanding Group Performance, 1999

Publications

Select for a bibliography of articles and reports by D.E.B. Potter.

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