Section 1332 Waiver Evaluation Report: Evaluating the Minnesota Reinsurance Program
This report documents findings from the evaluation of Minnesota's waiver, through which the state implemented the Minnesota Premium Security Plan.
Preethi Rao is a senior health economist at RAND. Her research focuses on policy issues related to the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid coverage and financing, health insurance markets, costs of prescription drugs, and quality measurement in health care. She has used simulation modeling to assess state policies (such as expanding Medicaid to the undocumented immigrant population, the impacts of reinsurance, and introducing a public option plan), the effects of potential changes to the Affordable Care Act (such as subsidy expansions), and the introduction of new payment models in Medicaid. She has also conducted evaluations of state Section 1332 reinsurance waivers. She has experience with the evaluation and implementation of quality measurement programs through work on the CAHPS for MIPS survey. She has worked on analyses of prescription drug usage using drug sales data from IQVIA and Medicare encounter data and Part D event data, including work to validate the RxDC dataset as well as work to evaluate the Medicare Part D Senior Savings Model (PDSS). She has used many large datasets in her work, including Medicare and Medicaid claims data, census data, data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and Current Population Survey, and data from state all-payer claims databases. Rao earned her Ph.D. in health economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Education
Ph.D. in health economics, University of Pennsylvania
Selected Work
- Rao, Preethi, Federico Girosi, Estimating the Effects of Further Expanding Health Insurance Coverage to Noncitizen Populations in Connecticut, RAND Corporation (RR-A3474-1), 2025
- Rao, Preethi, Federico Girosi, and Christine Eibner, Assessing the Impact of Individual Market Reforms in Minnesota, RAND Corporation (RR-A3074-1), 2024
- Mulcahy, Andrew W., Preethi Rao, Lindsey Patterson, Annetta Zhou, Jonathan S. Levin, Rachel O. Reid, Sarah Junghee Kang, Zetianyu Wang, and Susan L. Lovejoy, Prescription Drug Prices, Rebates, and Insurance Premiums, RAND Corporation (RR-A1820-3), 2024
- Taylor, Erin A., Dmitry Khodyakov, Michael Dworsky, Christine Buttorff, Zachary Predmore, Lane F. Burgette, Stacie B. Dusetzina, Preethi Rao, Asa Wilks, Shiyuan Zhang, Jennifer Gildner, Sarah Dalton, Catherine E. Cooke, and Monique Martineau, Evaluation of the Part D Senior Savings Model: First Year of the Model Test (2021), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (EP-70340), 2023
- Rao, Preethi, Federico Girosi, Raffaele Vardavas, Lawrence Baker, and Christine Eibner, Increasing Subsidies and Expanding Health Insurance Options in Connecticut, RAND Corporation (RR-A1276-2), 2022
Authored by Preethi Rao
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