{"id":744,"date":"2026-04-09T17:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/?p=744"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:36:40","slug":"ctmh-affiliate-co-authors-medicaid-research-reporting-checklist-referenced-in-policy-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/2026\/04\/09\/ctmh-affiliate-co-authors-medicaid-research-reporting-checklist-referenced-in-policy-work\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guide for Research Using Medicaid Claims Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"158\" data-end=\"506\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/sarah-gordon\/\">Sarah Gordon<\/a>, professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management, co-authored a study published in <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">JAMA Health Forum<\/span><\/span> titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezproxy.bu.edu\/41134558\/\">The T-MSIS Analytic Files (TAF) Analysis Reporting Checklist: A Guide for Research Using Medicaid Claims Data.<\/a>\u201d The paper introduces a standardized checklist to improve transparency and consistency in research <span>used to inform Medicaid policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"508\" data-end=\"659\">The checklist has been referenced in a policy document, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/research\/publication\/black-white-racial-differences-asthma-medication-receipt-among-medicaid\">Black-White Racial Differences in Asthma Medication Receipt among Medicaid-Enrolled Children.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"508\" data-end=\"659\">IMAGE: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@nci?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">National Cancer Institute<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/person-sitting-while-using-laptop-computer-and-green-stethoscope-near-NFvdKIhxYlU?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Gordon, professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management, co-authored a study published in JAMA Health Forum titled \u201cThe T-MSIS Analytic Files (TAF) Analysis Reporting Checklist: A Guide for Research Using Medicaid Claims Data.\u201d The paper introduces a standardized checklist to improve transparency and consistency in research used to inform Medicaid policy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}