Author Archives: Xinqi Li, Brett Lissenden, Greg Pope

About Xinqi Li, Brett Lissenden, Greg Pope

Gregory C. Pope has more than 25 years of experience in health economics and health policy research. His specialties include management of large-scale projects, payment model design and analysis, quantitative data analysis, statistical analysis, economic analysis, risk adjustment of capitation payments and payment benchmarks, risk transfer algorithms, and beneficiary attribution to health care providers. He has led the development of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Hierarchical Condition Category risk adjustment models for managed care organization capitation payment. He has also directed the evaluation of Medicare's Preferred Provider Organization and Physician Group Practice demonstrations and is co-developer of the Geographic Practice Cost Index used in Medicare physician payment.