Resume

• 2002

  Maitland Consulting

  University of Western Ontario

  Queen's University

  Assistant Professor

  Post Doc

  research

  teaching

  University of Western Ontario

  Maitland Consulting Inc. is a leading provider of analytical solutions

  forecast models

  funding models

  policy decision support

  utilization analysis and software design. Consultants have extensive experience working with a variety of population

  health status and health service databases from sources such as Census

  PHPDB

  Health Service Providers

  CIHI

  ICES and CCHS. They show expertise in handling large health care data sets (50 Gigabytes)

  solid knowledge of data analysis techniques

  statistical quality control methods

  research design and estimation and modeling methods\nMy client list includes Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC)

  Ministry of Social and Community Services (MCSS)

  WorkPlace Safety Insurance Board (WSIB)

  Bank of Montreal Capital Markets (BMO)

  Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)

  College of Opticians of Ontario

  Alberta Health & Wellness

  Public Health of Canada

  Canada Savings and Investment

  and Canadian Pharmaceutical Industry

  Maitland Consulting

  Professor Economics

  Taught both undergraduate and graduate course\nPublished over 50 paper in peer reviewed journals\nActing Head

  Associate Head\nAnd more administration than I care to remember

  Queen's University

  Best Paper in Canadian Journal of Economics

  \tHarry Johnson Prize - Awarded for best paper published “Canadian Journal of Economics: Practice Setting and Labour Supply of Physicians in Canada” - 1998

  Canadian Economic Association

  Ranking in Among Applied Econometricians

  \tRanked 37th econometrician in the world (2nd in Canada) in Econometric Theory - 2002\t\t

  Econometric Theory Association

  Grants

  \tHeld academic grants totaling over $500

  000 including; National Health Research Development Program (NHDRP) and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC)

  Various Research Agencies

• 1978

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Econometrics and Quantitative Economics

  Queen's University

• 1973

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  Economics

  University of Toronto

• 1968

  Highschool DIploma

  Riverdale Collegiate

  Toronto

• Econometrics

  Economic Research

  Medical Billing

  Policy

  Financial Econometrics

  Stata

  Economics

  Time Series Analysis

  Big Data

  Data Analysis

  Econometric Modeling

  Health Economics

  Business Analytics

  Statistical Modeling

  Medical Coding

  Public Health

  WorkPlace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)

  To develop a funding model for pricing “Programs of Care” for healthcare providers\r\nA Program of Care (POC) is characterized by a detailed initial assessment

  including determination of worker suitability for the Program

  and a set of clinical measures

  which form the basis for a treatment plan \r\ni Worked with the Model review Committee developed a fee for these Program of cares (along with the appropriate schedule) for acute lower back injury

  lower extremity injury

  mild brain injury

  noise induced hearing loss

  occupational asthma

  occupational contact dermatitis and upper extremity injury\r\nii.\tAssisted professional surveyors in developing market pricing survey for allied health professionals and analyzing the findings \r\nGoal of this project was to survey the costs of allied health care providers across Ontario and determine a market position for payment of these providers for the WSIB .The result of this work was a new fee schedule for WSIB \r\niii.\tTo design and conduct survey of health care providers for the Labour Market Re-entry (LMR) group\r\n Create understanding of current assessment practice by the primary Service Providers \r\n Introduce a methodology for pricing of these assessments \t\r\n Make recommendations for pricing and practice of Transferable Skills Analysis (TSA)

  Vocational Assessment (VA) and Psycho-Vocational Assessment (PVA)\r\n

  Human Resources and Skills Development of Canada

  Two projects on individuals with disabilities\r\n1.\tRural and Urban Differences: The Experiences of People with Disabilities in Canada (using the survey data set Participation Activity Limitation Survey-PALS)\r\n2.\tBoth cross-tabulations as well as statistical models to investigate rural and urban differences for those individuals with disabilities in Canada\r\n•\tSurprisingly in terms of incidence

  support needs

  accommodation

  employment

  income and so forth there was little actual relative differences in rural versus urban communities across a variety of disabilities\r\nEmployers’ Perspectives on Intermittent Work Capacity: What can qualitative research tell us? (interviews to develop Model)\r\n•\tThere is very little written or employers' perspectives on intermittent work capacity and we were forced to develop our own definition and write what we thought were the major impact. This was then linked to the traditional literature on disabilities and the workforce. We think this discussion will be a valuable addition to this important area\r\n

  Inappropriate Physican Billing in Ontario for Ministry of Health and Long Term Care

  To design software and risk models to support investigative studies on the practice patterns of physicians in Ontario.\tI developed software in the starting in the late 1990’s through the mid 2000 to sift through large amounts of information with the aim of determining physicians whose billing practice were inappropriate. Thjere are currently over 40 programs designed for complex queries available (all written in Stata). \r\n\tThis data snooping activity was highly successful and resulted in a large dollar return to the MOHLTC. \r\n\tThe general approach was built on computer algorithms and techniques that are capable of handling the large volumes of data required

  of generating timely

  meaningful results to the Ontario Ministry of Health officials

  and of supporting the recovery of significant funds from physicians due to the identification of inappropriate billings. \r\n

  Ministry of Community and Social Services

  Resource utilization analysis and methodology for the developmentally disabled in Ontario \r\n\tMap from “need” measures (questionnaire/application and SIS) to resource utilization units (RUU)\r\n\tMeasure the support resources utilized by the individual funded by the MCSS\r\n\tThe data collection tool was a survey designed by Dr. Gregory and conducted across 11 agencies over the period April 2008-June 2008\r\n\tThe survey tool was able to collect resource information reliably in an environment in which there was a mix of workers and varying staff ratios \r\n\tThe evidence on resource use as measured by hours of support time indicates that agencies have different amounts available to them that cannot be connected to any observable need differential\r\n\tA methodology was developed that overcame the endowment effects of agency differentials and concentrated on extracting the needs component in the hour of support \r\n\tFollow up work was conducted to develop an algorithm to place individuals in a six-category classification of need which was tested against a focus group assignment and the resource data from our survey\r\n

  Examples of Analysis Performed on Health Claims Data

  The following projects were all conducted for MOHLTC andeach has software (Stata) associated with them \r\n Waiting times for surgical procedures\r\n\tReview patterns of service delivery by physician by patient\r\n\tCapitation calculations for physicians\r\n\tDetermine the expected cost of a physicians practice using provincial average norms\r\n\tPolicy analysis with fee-for-service claims data\r\n\tMeasuring surgical time\r\n\tCost profiling of select procedures\r\n\tImpact analysis of changes to fee codes\r\n\tTracking of policy changes\r\n\tLaboratory test claims data\r\n\r\n

  Gregory

  Allan Gregory is Professor of Economics at Queens University in Kingston

  ON and President of Maitland Consulting Inc. My research academically is in applied finance

  forecasting and the like. For consulting work I have concentrated on health economics with an emphasis on medical billing

  costing of block care

  and disabled workers. I am an Associate editor of Stata and have developed a library of programs related to both my research and consulting. \n\nInformation is power and in my experience researchers

  policy makers

  consultants pay insufficient attention to the very data they posses. Data should never be handed-off to the lower level staff to \"cleanse\". Do it yourself

  otherwise you will never be confident of the findings.\n\nOn this very topic of data analysis

  I would advise some care in hiring so-called Business Analytic Specialist. This is essentially a low-level econometrician who has some training in statistics and summary measures. As a person who has been handling so-called \"Big Data\" forever

  I cannot see anything new in this other than another way to package and market Business Degrees (MSc at that). I have decided not to fight this tide (it is futile) and so I have added the skills Business Analytic Specialist and Big Data--- but done with a wink and a nod. \n \nI will only highlight my consulting experience here since academic experience and publications can be viewed at the web page below.

  Allan W.