Physician Policy Researcher and Director of Health Care Division Public Sector Team
Rachel Reid is a physician policy researcher at RAND and Director of the RAND Health Care Division Public Sector Team. A practicing primary care physician, her research focuses on measuring quality, value, and cost in health care. She has particular interest in the primary care delivery system, Medicare and Medicare Advantage, and delivery and payment reform and innovation. Engaged in the RAND Center of Excellence on Health System Performance, Reid led and co-led work assessing physician compensation and incentives, low-value health care delivery, primary care spending. She led a project assessing novel Medicare billing codes for transitional care provided after hospital discharge, has led tasks for the CMS Medicare Advantage Star Ratings project and has co-led several other analyses, tasks, or projects for the federal government and non-profit foundations. She has experience in analyses of Medicare fee-for-service claims data, Medicare Advantage Encounter Data, and commercial claims data. Before joining RAND, Reid worked in the Research and Rapid Cycle Evaluation Group at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Innovation Center. Her clinical work has included ambulatory primary care and hospital-based internal medicine. She is an associate physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. Reid received her A.B. in biochemical sciences from Harvard University and her M.D. and M.S. in clinical research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
M.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; M.S. in clinical research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; A.B. in biochemical sciences, Harvard University
