About Us_2018
Dobson DaVanzo & Associates, LLC is a healthcare economics and policy consulting firm based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Over the past fifteen years, the work of our principals has influenced the design of demonstrations and many public policy decisions and appears in numerous instances in legislation and regulation. Our litigation support efforts have helped courts, plaintiffs, and defendants understand the economic value of various health care issues.
Our research helps payers and providers develop, implement and evaluate equitable payment methodologies. We are at the forefront of using administrative data sets to explore payment bundling and other Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) initiatives. We apply decades of experience, access to a broad range of policymakers and subject matter experts, and innovative research techniques in order to best meet our clients’ needs. Our analyses are rigorous and objective and make use of a variety of public and private-sector data sources.
We have provided testimony to CMS, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), U.S. Treasury, as well as members of Congress, State legislatures and numerous stakeholder groups. Dobson | DaVanzo also routinely facilitates group discussions concerning policy development with organizational leadership and Boards of Directors. We also provide technical briefings on study results to a wide range of policymakers such as state legislators, congressional staff and members, MedPAC, CMS, and White House staff in the Executive Office of Management and Budget (EOMB).