Eric Jackson

Eric Jackson is an experienced Research Economist at RTI International. Eric leads multiple initiatives aimed at enhancing the quality of care provided across health care settings. His projects encompass data analytics for health care improvement, development of quality measures, and implementation of process improvements through automation to ensure high standards of patient care and operational efficiency.
In his previous role with the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO), he assisted with tasks involving physician offices and adverse drug events to support quality improvement activities in North and South Carolina. He utilized multiple years’ worth of Part A/B/D data to support task goals and project reporting requirements and gained extensive experience with hospital quality improvement initiatives to support CMS goals.

Mr. Jackson currently leads several key tasks for the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Program Analysis for the Medicare Shared Savings Program. This project provides program analysis support and technical assistance to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in implementing the Medicare Shared Savings Program. He leads the contract task that electronically delivers quarterly and annual feedback reports to ACOs on beneficiary assignment, expenditure, utilization, quality measurement, and financial reconciliation. He also leads analysis to identify ACOs affected by extreme and uncontrollable circumstances, such as natural disasters, by following program regulations and policy to identify these circumstances and the impact they had on the ACOs.

Eric actively participates in project teams relating to financial calculations, quality measurement, health equity, and policy and regulation support for CMS, and performs ad hoc analysis as requested by CMS.