Statistical consulting in healthcare quality improvement
and fraud, waste and abuse
Dana Keller, Ph.D.
941-228-5104
Dana@HalcyonResearch.com
Dana Keller, Ph.D.
941-228-5104
Dana@HalcyonResearch.com
Experience You Can Trust
Dana Keller, PhD, President of Halcyon Research, Inc.
With over fifteen years as an independent consultant, and a decade spent as Chief Statistician for a major healthcare research firm, Dr. Keller's expertise spans quality improvement and fraud, waste and abuse. A wide range of audiences have found that his presentation style and use of familiar examples can transform the most complex statistical issues into easily understood and usable information. This skill is especially important for depositions, direct and cross examinations, and written reports.
Experience:
Dr. Keller has been Chief Statistician for the following contracts and tasks for CMS, the Department of Defense, and States (EQRO work):
National Medicaid and CHIP Payment Error Rate Measurement Program (PERM) for five years, three complete cycles
Annual TRICARE Quality and Safety Evaluations Management Report for Department of Defense for six years, including a training presented at the Colorado facility at the personal request of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Maryland, DC, Arizona, and/or USVI QIOs for 17 years
New England, Mid-Atlantic, and/or Trans-Atlantic Renal Coalition ESRD Networks for 17 years
WIC, ZPIC4 and MIC for fraud, waste, and abuse detection and prosecution in Medicare and Medicaid, with expert statistician witness testimony for Administrative Law Judge Hearings
National Retiree Drug Subsidy Monitoring and Validation Project
National Recovery Audit Contractor Validation Project
National Better Quality Indicators Management Project
National Measures Management Project and Triennial National Impact Assessment Reports
State EQRO reports for over 20 States over a dozen years
Texas HHSC-OIG trial preparation consultant for audits involving sampling and extrapolation
In addition, he has been:
Publicly recognized by CMS on a national call with Medicare Advantage plans as “a national resource” for all research methodologies for MCO quality improvement projects, and announced that CMS would accept his decisions on related matters
Committee Chair or Supervising Research Professor for over 100 accredited doctoral dissertations
A charter appointment to Delaware’s Governor’s Panel of Evaluation Experts
Education:
Ph.D., Measurement, Statistics, & Evaluation, University of Delaware
M.A., Measurement, Statistics, & Evaluation, University of Delaware
B.A., Sociology, Tufts University
Publications:
Author of ‘The Tao of Statistics: A Path to Understanding (With No Math)’ - SAGE Publications – now 2nd edition. Covers basic to complex statistics from a conceptual perspective for non-mathematicians.
Author of ‘The Tao of Research: A Path to Validity’, with Mary Lou Casadevall-Keller, M.S. - SAGE Publications. Quantitative research and qualitative inquiry from the perspective of issues that interfere with outcome validity.
Various publications and national recognition, such as American Institutes for Research in Fundamental Problems in the Measurement of Instructional Processes: Estimating Reasonable Effect Sizes and Conceptualizing What is Important to Measure (2005), “The major comprehensive work in this field has been performed by Dana Keller.”