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 U.S. 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 participated in the AHRQ CAHPS 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 over 390 peer-reviewed articles in a variety of journals. He serves on the editorial boards of Health Services Research and Medical Care Research and Review. In 2014 Elliott was recognized by Thomson 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. in statistics from Rice University.
Selected Publications
Elliott MN, Klein DJ, et al. , "Using Predicted Spanish Preference to Target Bilingual Mailings in a Mail Survey with Telephone Follow-up," Health Services Research, 2018
Elliott MN, Landon B, et al., "Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Enrollees Report Less Positive Experiences Than Their Medicare Advantage Counterparts," Health Affairs, 35(3), 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), 2016
Elliott MN, Finch BK, et al., "Sample Designs for Measuring the Health of Small Racial Ethnic Subgroups," Statistics in Medicine, 27(20), 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), 2007
Elliott MN, Dahlhamer JM, MacCarthy S, Beckett MK, Orr N, Guerino P, Agniel D, Saunders CL, Schuster MA, Ng JH, Martino SC, "Using Ancillary Sociodemographic Data to Identify Sexual Minority Adults among Those Responding “Something Else” or “Don’t Know” to Sexual Orientation Questions," Medical Care, 57(12), 2019
Breslau J, Elliott MN, Haviland AM, Klein DJ, Dembosky JW, Adams JL, Gaillot S, Horvitz-Lennon M, Schneider EC, "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Attainment of Behavioral Health Quality Measures in Medicare Advantage Plans," Health Affairs, 37(10), 2018
Haas A, Elliott MN, Dembosky JW, Adams JL, Wilson-Frederick S, Mallett JS, Gaillot S, Haffer SC, Haviland AM, "Imputation of Race/Ethnicity to Enable Measurement of HEDIS Performance by Race/Ethnicity," Health Services Research, 54(1), 2018
