Scholarship and Biography
Dr. Perloff has 20 years of experience in evaluation and health services research with much of that work grounded in claims data analysis. Most recently, Dr. Perloff has been involved in assessing the impact of accountable care organizations (ACOs) on post-acute care and the transition of service from institutional to home and community-based setting. For example, she is currently evaluating a paramedicine home-visiting model that targets the most medically complex Medicare beneficiaries within an accountable care organization (ACO) in North Carolina. Dr. Perloff is also evaluating the Medicare post-discharge home visit waiver in a large ACO in Iowa and assessing the quality of Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs as compared to traditional fee-for-service Medicare. In addition to ACOs, Dr. Perloff also focus on the cost and quality of nurse practitioner-based primary care, including a study on the quality of NP-led home-based primary care. Dr. Perloff is also co-leading an effort to prepare NP-led or owned practices for participation in value-based payment models. In addition to research, Dr. Perloff co-leads the health concentration in the Heller School Ph.D. program and is the Director of the Institute for Healthcare Systems. She serves on many dissertation committees and is actively engaged in mentoring students and junior faculty.