About the Contributors

Randall R. Bovbjerg is a principal research associate at the Urban Institute. He has almost 30 years of experience in the areas of public and private insurance; medical injury, liability, and patient safety; state and local health policy; safety net issues; and state regulation. The author of four books and more than 90 other publications, he currently conducts research on malpractice issues and reinsurance in Medicaid managed care. A member of the D.C. Health Care Reform Commission, he has acted as a journal editor and peer reviewer, and has served on the faculties of Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. He came to the Institute from the Massachusetts Insurance Department.

Donald J. Boyd is the director of the Fiscal Studies Program at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State University of New York that provides practical independent research about state and local government finances in the 50 states. He has more than 20 years of experience in analyzing state and local government fiscal issues in academia, in private consulting, and in the executive and legislative branches of state government.

Teresa A. Coughlin is a principal research associate at the Urban Institute's Health Policy Center, where her research focuses on Medicaid and other health care programs for low-income populations. She is the coauthor of a book on Medicaid and has written widely on health care. Most recently, her work has centered on a major evaluation of Medicaid waiver programs, a study of state variation in Medicaid beneficiaries' access and use, and a survey of Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) and upper payment limit (UPL) programs.

Ian Hill is a senior research associate with the Urban Institute's Health Policy Center, where he directs the qualitative components of the Institute's State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) evaluations and has developed a series of crosscutting papers on states' implementation experiences under SCHIP. For more than 17 years, he has directed federal and state evaluation and technical assistance contracts related to Medicaid, maternal and child health, children with special health care needs, and managed care. He has served as associate director of Health Systems Research, Inc., as a senior policy analyst for the National Governors Association, and as a presidential management intern for the Health Care Financing Administration.

Michael Housman contributed to this volume as an intern at the Urban Institute and is presently a research analyst at The Lewin Group, a health care consulting firm. His current work focuses on state variations in the use of Medicaid to fund evidence-based behavioral health services and state implementation of federal requirements to screen nursing home residents for mental illness.

Robert E. Hurley is a faculty member in the Department of Health Administration at the Virginia Commonwealth University, where he teaches graduate courses in managed care and organization theory. He has been conducting research in managed care and other health services issues for nearly 20 years, with a particular focus on managed care in public sector programs. He serves on the editorial boards of Health Affairs, Medical Care Research & Review, Milbank Quarterly, and Managed Care Quarterly.

Marilyn Moon wrote her chapter for this volume while a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, and is currently a vice president at the American Institutes for Research. She has written extensively on issues primarily focused on Medicare and aging issues, although she has also worked on health reform issues in general. She has also served as a public trustee of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds and written a column on health coverage issues for the Washington Post.

Mary Beth Pohl was formerly a research assistant in the Urban Institute's Health Policy Center. She conducted many studies of insurance coverage, including modeling public health expansion programs using the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey. She currently serves as a health policy analyst for the state of Maryland.

Jane Tilly is a senior research associate at the Urban Institute and has more than 15 years' experience in public policy research and analysis. Her primary research interests are related to health and supportive services for people with disabilities. Before joining the Urban Institute five years ago, Jane Tilly was associate director for public policy research at AARP's Public Policy Institute, where her work focused on long-term care and public benefits programs.

Stephen Zuckerman is a principal research associate in the Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute. His current research interests are Medicaid managed care, the State Children's Health Insurance Program and crowd out of private coverage, racial and ethnic disparities in health care, the duration of uninsurance, and the health care safety net. He directs the health care component of the National Survey of America's Families-a survey of 42,000 households being conducted as part of the Institute's Assessing the New Federalism study. He has also worked on research related to Medicare physician payment, hospital rate setting, medical malpractice, health care price indices, and health system reform.

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