The Merative™ MarketScan® Research Databases

Data Access and Data Governance Guidelines

1. To help offset the annual cost of the license, investigators might incur an access fee. Please, contact Andrea Flores to discuss details.
2. All projects using MarketScan data need to have an eligible Principal Investigator (PI).
3. Eligible PIs are faculty members with current appointments at UC. Fellows or post-doctoral researchers with current appointments at UC are also eligible as PIs if they have sponsorship from UC faculty.
4. PIs need to sign a DUA to acknowledge and take responsibility for our contract terms.
5. Teams must work under the supervision of an eligible PI and each person in the team must sign the DUA.
6. If PIs work with a CHeSS analyst, the analyst will be the person accessing the raw data and running the analyses. If not, others in the team can request access to the raw data if they have a signed DUA and have an active UC affiliation.

Please note, projects need to be internally funded, which means the funding used to pay for analyst time comes from within UC. Merative allows external funds to pay for analyst time; however, those projects incur an incremental per-project cost. For grant-funded research (foundation, state, or federal grant), if the award is less than or equal to $250,000, the incremental fee to use the data is at least $10,000 USD per study or 10% of the total award per study, whichever is greater. If the award exceeds $250,000, the incremental fee to use the data is fixed at $25,000 per study. The incremental fee to use the data for a commercially funded research study will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. In all cases, these incremental fees are paid directly to Merative.