Liming Cai

Highly skilled in healthcare policy research, specifically payment and reform policies, adept at performing innovative and data-driven analysis to enhance decision making. Demonstrates expertise in utilizing diverse sources of large databases to conduct top-notch and unbiased studies on healthcare utilization, spending, and outcomes through traditional statistics and machine learning techniques.

• The Cost of an Additional Disability-Free Life Year for Older Americans: 1992–2005, Health Services Research, 2012, 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2012.01432.x
• The Predicted Effects of Chronic Obesity in Middle Age on Medicare Costs and Mortality, Medical Care, 2010, 48, 6, 510-517
• Estimation of Multi-State Life Table Functions and Their Variability from Complex Survey Data Using the SPACE Program, Demographic Research, 2010, 22, 6
• Evaluation of a Method for Fitting a Semi-Markov Process Model in the Presence of Left-Censored Spells Using the Cardiovascular Health Study, Statistics in Medicine, 2008, 27, 5509-5524
• Was There Compression of Disability for Older Americans From 1992 to 2003?, Demography, 2007, 44, 3, 479-495
• The Effect of Different Public Health Interventions on Longevity, Morbidity, and Years of Healthy Life, BMC Public Health, 2007, 7, 52
• Analysis of Functional Status Transitions Using a Semi-Markov Process Model in the Presence of Left-Censored Spells, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 2006, 55, 4, 477-491
• Health, Life Expectancy, and Health Care Spending among the Elderly, The New England Journal of Medicine, 2003, 349, 1048-1055
• Medical care expenditures for hypertension, its complications, and its comorbidities, Medical Care, 2001, 39, 6, 599-615
• An SAS/IML Module for the Johnson-Neyman Procedure, Applied Psychological Measurement, 1999, 23, 4, 308

• Health-Adjusted Value of Health Care Spending on Older Americans in 1992-2002, 2009 Annual Meeting of REVES, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009
• Middle Age Obesity and Medicare Spending at Old Ages, 2008 annual meeting of Gerontological Society of America, National Harbor, MD, 2008
• Middle Age Obesity and Medicare Spending at Old Ages, 2009 Annual Meeting of Population Association of America, Detroit, MI, 2009
• The SPACE Program, 2008 annual meeting of Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA, 2008
• Recent Trends in Racial/Ethnic and Educational Differences in Active Life Expectancy among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries, 2007 annual meeting of Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA, 2007
• Comparison of Real versus Simulated Distributions, 2007 Joint Statistical Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007
• The Impact of Duration of Health Status on Disability Transitions, 2006 annual meeting of Population Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, 2006
• Compression of Disability for Older Americans, 1992-2003, annual meeting of Population Association of America, Philadelphia, PA, 2005
• Healthy Aging Research: From Statistics to Economics, Center on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2004
• A New Analysis of the Impact of Healthy Aging on Medical Expenditures, annual meeting of Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA, 2003
• Adjusting for Left-Truncation in Fitting the Semi-Markov Process Model: Application to the Analysis of Active Life Expectancy, annual meeting of Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA, 2003
• A Two-Part Model to Estimate Active Life Expectancy, workshop on Progress in Estimating Active Life Expectancy, NCHS, Hyattsville, MD, 2002