Nancy McCall

Nancy McCall is a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research, which provides a full range
of research and data collection services, including program evaluation and policy research,
survey design, and data collection.

McCall has 30 years of experience conducting health services research assessing the
effects of health system transformation on quality of care, health care utilization, costs,
and health outcomes. Her research and technical assistance efforts have focused on a wide
range of subjects, including the evaluation of health care transformation demonstrations
within the Medicare and Medicaid programs; federal and state health care delivery reforms;
and access to and quality of care for consumers within federal, state, and commercial
insurance programs. She has extensive experience leading successful evaluations of health
care delivery and payment reform demonstrations that require the use of rigorous quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods and analysis of a broad set of outcomes using an
array of quantitative data, including Medicare, Medicaid, commercial, and all-payer claims
databases.

Before joining Mathematica, McCall was a chief scientist at RTI International. She was the
principal investigator for the Evaluation of the Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Practice Demonstration, the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration Evaluation, the High Cost
Medicare Beneficiary Demonstration Evaluation, and the Medicare Health Support Evaluation.

McCall was a cardiac research nurse at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a primary nurse
at the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, both in Boston, Massachusetts. She also served as
an assistant research professor in the Clinical Economics Research Unit at Georgetown
University Medical Center and as an economist at the Health Care Financing Administration. She holds a BS in nursing from Purdue University, an MS in health policy, and a ScD
in health economics from the Harvard School of Public Health. McCall’s work has been
published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Medical Care, Medical Care Research
and Review, and Health Services Research. March 2016