SOLICITATION NOTICE
G -- Evaluation Of Various Measures of Physician's Productivity
- Notice Date
- 8/15/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- 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-732-5-900505
- Response Due
- 8/30/2005
- Archive Date
- 9/14/2005
- 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 Zachary Dyckman of Dyckman & Associates, 1050 17th Street, NW, Suite 1000, Washington, D.C. 20036 for evaluation of various measures of physician?s productivity and coordination of conference on physician?s productivity. The contractor has more than 20 years of experience in healthcare policy research and consulting, primarily in the areas of physician payment systems, healthcare cost analysis, litigation support, pharmacy benefits, and managed care program evaluation. His clients have included federal and state government agencies with healthcare financing and regulatory responsibilities, national and state provider organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and more than thirty managed care and health insurance plans. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President of CHPS Consulting (Center for Health Policy Studies). He has also held senior level positions on the President?s Council on Wage and Price Stability at the Department of Health Education and Welfare, and at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. Dyckman has evaluated and designed physician payment systems for numerous public and private health insurance programs. He recently completed a project for a consortium of Blue Cross Blue Shield plans to help them design and implement performance-based provider payment systems. This work included identifying process and outcomes criteria for measuring physician quality and cost-effectiveness that can be incorporated into an incentive payment system and developing effective physician communication and reporting strategies. He has also helped managed care plans develop global service payment approaches, under which a single payment is made for all professional and facility related services provided during a hospital admission. His broad based health care research and consulting work had led to numerous litigation support and regulatory analysis assignments. He has testified at several major health care antitrust trials, at trials involving provider fee dispute and other health care issues, at state regulatory hearings, and before state legislative and Congressional committees. Over the past several years, he has directed damage estimation efforts involving analysis of large claims data sets for several provider fraud and abuse cases. He has worked as an expert witness in several managed care class action and healthcare antitrust cases. The contractor has assisted employers, Medicare and Medicaid programs, and private insurers in the design and implementation of managed care programs. In 1999, he prepared a report for a business health coalition that evaluated managed care plan performance on cost, quality, and access in eight metropolitan areas. The contractor directed a national provider survey for MedPAC, advisor to Congress on Medicare and Medicaid, regarding how Medicare payment rates compare to private health insurer payment rates. The contractor has also directed a study of clinical laboratory service costs and payment rates for the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, in support of their evaluation of Medicare payment policies for these services. The contractor has worked extensively on pharmacy benefit and cost issues. He has directed the evalution and design of pharmacy benefit programs for several managed care plans and large employers. Cost projections for inclusion of prescription drug coverage under Medicare were developed by the contractor and were cited by President Clinton during the healthcare reform debate. All responsible sources may submit capability statements, which shall be considered by the agency in accordance with the requirements in the sysnopsis. 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
- Zip Code: 21244-1850
- Zip Code: 21244-1850
- Record
- SN00870366-W 20050817/050815211703 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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