Marc N. Elliott is a senior principal researcher at RAND and holds its Distinguished Chair in Statistics. His areas of interest include health disparities, Medicare, vulnerable populations, healthcare experiences, profiling of health care institutions, survey sampling, experimental design, causal inference, and case-mix adjustment in US and UK applications. He has developed Bayesian methods of estimating race/ethnicity and associated disparities using surname and address information. Elliott led Office of Minority Health work developing novel, cost-effective sampling and analytic methods to improve national health estimates for small racial/ethnic subgroups. Since 2006, he has led the CMS Medicare CAHPS® (Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems) Analysis project, assessing patient experiences for 400,000 surveyed beneficiaries annually. Since 1996, he has been RAND's lead statistician on the AHRQ CAHPS I-III projects and currently co-leads the AHRQ CAHPS IV project. Elliott is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the first recipient of its Mid-Career Award (Health Policy Section). He has published 325 peer-reviewed articles in a variety of journals. He serves on the editorial boards of Health Services Research, Medical Care Research and Review, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine. In 2014 Elliott was recognized by Thomas Reuters as one of the Top 1 of Cited Scientists 2002-2012. In 2017 Elliott became a member of the Academy Health Methods Council. He holds a Ph.D., an M.A., and a B.A. in statistics, and a B.A. in psychology from Rice University.
Selected Publications
Elliott MN, Landon B, et al., "Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Enrollees Report Less Positive Experiences Than Their Medicar Advantage Counterparts," Health Affairs, 35(3):456-463, 2016
Elliott MN, Beckett MK, Lehrman WG, Cleary PD, Cohea C, Giordano LA, Goldstein E, Damberg C, "Understanding The Role Medicare's Patient Experience Points System Plays In Hospital Reimbursement," Heath Affairs, 35(9):1673-1680, 2016
Elliott MN, Cohea CW, et al., "Accelerating Improvement and Narrowing Gaps: Trends in Patients' Experiences with Hospital Care Reflected in HCAHPS Public Reporting," Health Services Search, 50(6):1850-1867, 2015
Elliott MN, Kanouse D, et al., "Sexual Minorities in England Have Poorer Health and Worse Health Care Experiences: A National Survey," Journal of General Internal Medicine, 30(1):9-16, 2015
Schuster MA, Elliott MN, et al., "Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in 5th-Graders in 3 US Metropolitan Areas," New England Journal of Medicine, 367(8):735-45, 2012
Elliott MN, Morrison PA, et al., "Using the Census Bureau's Surname List to Improve Estimates of Race/Ethnicity and Associated Disparities," Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 9(2):69-83, 2009
Elliott MN, Finch BK, et al., "Sample Designs for Measuring the Health of Small Racial Ethnic Subgroups," Statistics in Medicine, 27(20):4016-4029, 2008
Elliott MN, Haviland A., "Use of a Web-based Convenience Sample to Supplement and Improve the Accuracy of a Probability Sample," Survey Methodology, 33(2):211-215, 2007
