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Kevin Casey McAvey

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  • Phone: 212.790.4543
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Education
  • Cornell University, M.S., Applied Economics, 2013

    Georgetown University, M.P.P., Public Policy and Economic Analysis, 2007

    Colgate University, B.A., Economics and English, 2005

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Profile

Profile

With deep experience in economics and quantitative methods, Kevin McAvey creates data-driven health care solutions—such as alternative payment models and other innovative payment and delivery systems—for payers, providers, and state and local governments.

Working with clients and client leads to collect, manage and analyze large datasets, Kevin builds and implements models to predict the impact of health reform initiatives on coverage, payment, utilization and stakeholders’ costs. He also advises clients on research projects and analyses by identifying the best available data sources, applying appropriate methodologies and interpreting results.

Prior to joining Manatt Health, Kevin supported the establishment of an independent Massachusetts state agency to provide health care cost transparency through the use of data. Under Kevin’s management, the agency brought the Massachusetts’ All Payer Claims Database (APCD) online for ongoing analytic use and first-in-the-nation reporting. Kevin served as the agency’s business representative in a multiagency national effort to develop a standardized APCD technical and business specification. He worked to ensure file data completeness and accuracy across 16 payers’ private commercial, Medicaid and Medicare Advantage lines of business.

Kevin has authored or coauthored over a dozen publications on health care coverage, cost, and payment trends. He has drafted data specifications and regulations at both the state and federal levels.

Kevin serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Public Data Users (APDU) and the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO), the national convener of APCD data agencies.

Speaking Engagements

Speaking Engagements

Guest lecturer, “Health Data and Public Policy: All-Payer Claims Databases,” Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, February 2, 2023.

Presenter, “Health System Costs: Financial Trends and Impact on Oregonians,” Oregon Senate Committee on Healthcare, December 8, 2022.

Presenter, “Advancing State Cost Growth Benchmarking Programs,” National Association of Health Data Organizations 37th Annual Conference, October 26, 2022.

Speaker, “Keynote Reaction: The Role of State Health Data Organizations in Supporting Health Equity,” National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) Spotlight Series, May 25, 2022.

Presenter, “Unlocking Race and Ethnicity Data to Promote Health Equity,” National Association of Health Data Organizations 36th Annual Conference, September 24, 2021.

Speaker, “Business Roundtable Discussion on Race and Ethnicity Data Collection,” Leavitt Partners, September 17, 2021.

Speaker, “Unlocking Race and Ethnicity Data to Promote Health Equity in California,” Connecting for Better Health, May 6, 2021.

Speaker, “Unlocking Race and Ethnicity Data to Promote Health Equity in California,” America’s Physician Groups, April 26, 2021.

Panelist, “Funder Healthcare Considerations – Cost and Value,” Grantmakers in Health, April 20, 2021.

Speaker, “The Next Generation of State Healthcare Cost Benchmarking,” National Association of Health Data Organizations 2020 Conference, August 25, 2020.

Speaker, “What the Matter with Encounter Data? Common Issues and Actionable State Strategies for Improving a Critical Data Resource,” National Association of Health Data Organizations 2020 Conference, August 17, 2020.

Speaker, “Welcome Address,” Association of Public Data Users 2020 Annual Conference: #Trending in 2020: Data Privacy, Accuracy, and Access, July 27, 2020.

Co-presenter, “Using Data to Support State and Local Government Response to Crises,” National Association of Health Data Organizations Special Edition Web Conference (COVID-19 & Health Data), March 24, 2020.

Moderator, “Public and Private Solutions to Barriers in Health Care Transparency,” National Association of Health Data Organizations Health Care Data Summit 2018, Park City, Utah, Oct. 10, 2018.

Moderator, “The Future of Evidence-Based Policymaking,” Association of Public Data Users 2018 Annual Conference, Arlington, VA, July 17, 2018.

Moderator, Keynote Plenary, Association of Public Data Users 2018 Annual Conference, Arlington, VA, July 17, 2018.

Speaker, “Innovations in Data Visualization,” Association of Public Data Users 2017 Annual Conference, Arlington, VA, 2017.

Presenter, “2017 Data Viz Awards,” Association of Public Data Users 2017 Annual Conference, Arlington, VA, 2017.

Moderator, “Healthcare Data Analytics,” National Association of Health Data Organizations 32nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2017.

Keynote Speaker, “From Data to Delivery: Communicating Useful Information About a Complex Health Care System,” AcademyHealth 2016 Conference, Translation and Communication Interest Group, Boston, MA, 2016.

Presenter, “Multipayer Claims Databases: Opportunities and Challenges,” AcademyHealth 2016 Concordium, Webinar, 2016.

Chair and Moderator, “Opening Remarks,” “Using Public Data to Inform Policy-Making,” and “1st Annual APDU Data Viz Awards,” Association of Public Data Users 2016 Conference, Alexandria, VA, 2016.

Presenter, CHIA Presentation on the Performance of the Massachusetts Health Care System, Health Policy Commission, 2016.

Speaker, “Incremental Data Source Transitioning for APCDs,” National Association of Health Data Organizations 2016 Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2016.

Moderator and Presenter, “Web Tools for Data Analytics,” Association of Public Data Users 2014 Conference, Washington, D.C., 2014.

Honors & Awards

Honors & Awards

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commonwealth Citation for Outstanding Performance, 2016

Memberships

Memberships

Vice President of Board of Directors, Association of Public Data Users

Member, National Association of Health Data Organizations

Member, Board of Directors, National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO)

Publications

Publications

Co-author, “Medicaid in Montana: How Medicaid Impacts Montana’s State Budget, Economy, and Health,” Montana Healthcare Foundation, February 2023.

Quoted, “Medicaid in Montana: Preventative health, mental health on the rise, rural hospitals remain open,” Daily Montanan, February 9, 2023.

Author, “Realizing the Promise of All Payer Claims Databases: A Federal & State Action Plan,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, November 2022.

Co-author, “Medicaid in Montana: How Medicaid Impacts Montana’s State Budget, Economy, and Health,” Montana Healthcare Foundation, April 2022.

Co-author, “Assessing Implementation of Hospital Price Transparency,” New York State Health Foundation, January 2022.

Co-author, “Racism and Racial Inequities in Health: A Data-Informed Primer on Health Disparities in Massachusetts,” Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, December 2021.

Co-author, “State Benchmarking Models: Promising Practices to Understand and Address Health Care Cost Growth,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, June 2021.

Authored, “Investing In The Data Systems We Need To Create The Health System We Deserve,” Health Affairs, June 4, 2021.

Quoted, “How to Achieve Health Equity? Leaders Say Start Unlocking Race and Ethnicity Data,” Healthcare Innovation, June 2, 2021.

Co-author, “CalAIM and Health Data Sharing: A Roadmap for Effective Implementation of Enhanced Care Management and In Lieu of Services,” California Health Care Foundation, May 5, 2021.

Quoted, “How to Overcome Challenges in Gathering Racial, Ethnicity Data,” HealthPayerIntelligence, April 26, 2021.

Co-author, “A Primer on the Dual Eligible Population in Massachusetts,” Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, March 29, 2021.

Co-author, “Better Health Care Data Depends on Federal–State Coordination,” Milbank Memorial Foundation, March 29, 2021.

Co-author, “Implementing a Statewide Healthcare Cost Benchmark,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, December 12, 2019.

Co-author, “Strategies to Expand Transparency, Enhance Competition and Control Costs: A Toolkit for Insurance Regulators,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, July 2019.

Co-author, “Faces of MassHealth: Portrait of a Diverse Population,” Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation and Health Care For All, May 21, 2019.

Co-author, “Addressing Major Drivers of MassHealth Per-Enrollee Spending Growth: An Analytic Review and Policy Options,” Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, November 14, 2018.

Co-author, “Enhancing the Value of Coverage Through Transparency: How APCDs Can Support Insurance Regulation,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, November 2018.

Co-author, “Transparency In Health Care: Where We Stand And What Policy Makers Can Do Now,” Health Affairs, July 11, 2018.

Co-author, “Medicaid Expansion: How It Affects Montana’s State Budget, Economy, and Residents,” Montana Healthcare Foundation, June 2018.

Co-author, “Medicaid: The Linchpin in State Strategies to Prevent and Address Opioid Use Disorders,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, March 2018.

Co-author, “Changes to Medicaid Expansion in the American Health Care Act: State-by-State Estimates of the Coverage and Fiscal Impact,” Manatt Health, March 2017.

Co-author, “Annual Report on the Performance of the Massachusetts Health Care System,” Center for Health Information and Analysis, 2013-2016.

Co-author, “Massachusetts Medical Loss Ratios,” Center for Health Information and Analysis, 2015.

Co-author, “Massachusetts Tiered Network Membership, Center for Health Information and Analysis, 2014-2015.

Co-author, “Massachusetts High Deductible Health Plan Membership,” Center for Health Information and Analysis, 2014.

Co-author, “Massachusetts Managed Care Membership,” Center for Health Information and Analysis, 2014.

Co-author, “CHIA Report on Bundled Payments: Volume 2,” Center for Health Information and Analysis, 2013.

Kevin in the News

  • 06.17.21

    McAvey and Ario Quoted on More States Adopting State Health Care Cost ...

    Kevin McAvey and Joel Ario are quoted in Modern Healthcare discussing their latest report on state health care benchmarki...

  • 06.02.21

    McAvey Featured in Healthcare Innovation on Promoting Data Collection ...

    Kevin McAvey and Alisha Reginal were featured in Healthcare Innovation discussing their recent whitepaper, which was auth...

  • 04.26.21

    McAvey Quoted in HealthPayerIntelligence on Data Collection Improving ...

    Kevin McAvey discussed the importance of collecting accurate race and ethnicity data as the health care industry moves to...



Kevin's Articles

  • 02.22.23

    Medicaid in Montana: How Medicaid Impacts Montana’s State Budget, ...

    Montana’s Medicaid program provides low-income Montanans—including children, seniors, the disabled and the medically needy—access ...



  • 12.05.22

    Realizing the Promise of All Payer Claims Databases: A Federal & ...

    In 2020, health care spending in the United States increased by nearly 10 percent to reach $4.1 trillion, or 20 percent of the U.S. economy. ...



  • 04.20.22

    Medicaid in Montana: How Medicaid Impacts Montana’s State Budget, ...

    Montana’s Medicaid program provides low-income Montanans—from children to seniors to the disabled to the medically needy—access to ...



  • 01.19.22

    Assessing Implementation of Hospital Price Transparency

    While most stakeholders agree on the need for more transparency in our health care system, there is substantial debate about how to make meaningful ...



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Kevin's Newsletters

  • 03.20.23

    The Manatt State Cost Containment Update

    This Manatt series, to be released quarterly through 2023, shares the latest updates on state cost growth benchmarking programs and other data-driven ...

  • 01.18.23

    Realizing the Promise of All-Payer Claims Databases

    In 2020, health care spending in the United States increased by nearly 10% to reach $4.1 trillion, or 20% of the U.S. economy.

  • 05.25.22

    The Manatt State Cost Containment Update, May 2022: Driving ...

    Manatt shares updates on state cost growth benchmarking programs & and other data-driven initiatives to contain health care cost growth.

  • 02.17.22

    The Manatt State Cost Containment Update, February 2022: Leveraging ...

    State benchmarking programs may leverage other data resources—including APCDs, private claims databases, and federal and state survey ...

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Kevin's Events and Webinars

  • 04.12.23

    State Health Data Organizations: Engines of Market Transparency and ...

    Across the country, states are investing in organizations and cross-departmental offices responsible for collecting, managing, integrating and ...



  • 12.07.22

    National Health Data Summit: Realizing the Promise of All-Payer ...

    The full paper is now available.  Please also visit our library of materials to help you better understand, plan for and implement ...



  • 09.08.22

    A New Era of Accountability: Lessons From the CA Health Care Quality ...

    In late June, California’s Governor Newsom signed the California Health Care Quality and Affordability Act, establishing a new Office of ...



  • 07.21.22

    State Health Care Cost Growth Benchmarking: New Strategies to Drive ...

    Cost growth benchmarking programs allow states to see a complete picture of total health care spending in their markets, and pinpoint cost drivers. ...



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