Kristin Geonnotti

Kristin Geonnotti is an associate director and senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. She has expertise in primary care redesign and transformation, the patient-centered
medical home, and quality of care. She works on numerous mixed methods evaluations
of health policies and programs, focused primarily on evaluating delivery system reform
initiatives.

Geonnotti’s work on large federal evaluations for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) includes leading both Medicare claims analyses and implementation evaluations. She currently works on three major evaluations for CMS, which focus on a range
of health care delivery and payment reforms that aim to achieve better quality of care;
improve population health; and lower costs for Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program beneficiaries. She also examined strategies for improving the delivery of
primary care through medical homes for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Her research contributions included a paper describing strategies for practice facilitators
(coaches) to engage primary care practices in ongoing quality improvement and a guide
on developing practice facilitation programs. In addition, Geonnotti has provided technical
assistance to states and payers on best practices for collecting and analyzing performance
measures related to medical homes implementation. She joined Mathematica in 2010
and holds a PhD in health policy and management from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. March 2016