Meena Vora

Computational Biologist, Consultant, Founder, BioPhase Systems

Looking for an opportunity to build decision enabling software applications with creative algorithms for data integration and analytics. 

15+ yrs as a Scientist in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Software Architect and Database Integration. 

Worked at Biophase Systems, Sybase, C-Bridge Internet Solutions, Hyseq, Lynx Therapeutics and Genentech.

Ph.D. Microbiology, Post Doctorate in Dermatology, Immunology at Stanford University

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Project: Medicare Data Analysis.

Faculty Feedback

Prashanth G

Practice Lead - Healthcare at TCS

I have reviewed the Project and recommend that this project is complete and has met all the required objectives for the project and recommend the student be issued the certificate

Problem Statement:

Several Medicare plans are available for senior citizens and other qualified members to enrol into every year, that are offered by different health insurance companies offering these plans. While a lot of information regarding individual plans exist, it is difficult to compare plans based on various criteria to make an informed choice to suit unique situations of individual members as well as for plan benefit designers to compare plans and design benefits that meets unique requirements and are competitive in different markets. The purpose of this document is to detail the analysis of the medicare plans data across US and provide useful summary details.

  1. The primary purpose of this project is to facilitate analysis of Medicare plans to provide meaningful insights that help in choosing appropriate medicare plans by comparing all relevant details regarding these plans that are available in each countries throughout the country.
  2.  While CMS provides rich details on all the plans that are offered county wise, it makes better analysis when each plans that are offered are compared  on the finer descriptions of its cost and coverage details
  3. To implement an efficient system to extract , load and transform all data related to Medicare plans to perform analytics.
  4. Analysis of Medicare plans to compare plan offerings by various criteria’s to select suitable plan for the Members.
  5. Analysis of Medicare plans to compare plan offerings to design suitable benefit plan for different regions


Dataset:

The medicare data can be downloaded from medicare government website from the following location:

https://www.medicare.gov/download/downloaddb.asp

Project Report

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