KeriAnn LaSpina

KeriAnn LaSpina’s work focuses on assessing state health care spending in the context of initiatives such as all-payer models, accountable care organizations, and cost growth benchmark programs.

Since joining Mathematica in 2010, LaSpina has worked on a range of projects in quality measurement, qualitative evaluation, and state health. Currently, she directs a project reporting on Vermont’s progress in meeting the spending, quality, and enrollment goals of the state’s all-payer accountable care organization. She also leads a project for the Connecticut Office of Health Strategy, using the state’s all-payer claims database to build and automate reports to help state officials monitor health care spending, price, and utilization trends, and identify drivers of spending growth. LaSpina is also working on a project for the California Office of Health Care Affordability as it implements a spending growth target initiative.

Before attending graduate school, LaSpina served as an executive research assistant and data analyst at an insurance company, where she gained expertise in relational database querying and reporting. Wanting to apply her data analysis skills to health policy, LaSpina pursued and received a master’s degree in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012. For her master’s thesis, she authored a report for the Rhode Island Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner advising the agency on selecting and designing a health care benefits plan that complied with the essential health benefits provision of the Affordable Care Act. Since then, LaSpina has worked on projects related to evaluating after-school programs, evaluating the implementation of the Health Care Innovation Awards, Medicare Advantage data integrity, designing and testing electronic clinical quality measures, and state health.