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Session 12: Options for Medicaid Reform—Enhancements or Radical Change?
The continued surge in Medicaid costs is straining state budgets and has made the program one of the key unfunded liabilities of the Federal government. Nonetheless, the quality of the care provided under the program is often less than desirable. What’s needed?
Links of Interest
National Center for Policy Analysis Health Issues
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Health Policy Analysis
Presentations
Devon Herrick : Reforming Medicaid
Judith Solomon: Options for Medicaid Reform
Speakers
Robert Graboyes
Visiting Lecturer
University of Richmond, moderator
Devon Herrick
Senior Fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis
Chair, NABE Health Economics Roundtable
Devon Herrick, Ph. D., concentrates on health care issues, such as Internet-based medicine, health insurance and the uninsured, as well as pharmaceutical drug issues. Other areas which Dr. Herrick focuses on include managed care, patient empowerment, medical privacy and technology-related issues.
Dr. Herrick has been responsible for the NCPA's computer and information services, as well as oversight of the design and maintenance of the NCPA's award-winning Web site - Idea House. He has training in financial analysis and health economics, and has conducted several major research projects for the NCPA, having published several research studies and papers on health policy. Herrick is a sought-after speaker on health policy issues.
Prior to joining the NCPA, Dr. Herrick was a research assistant at the Bruton Center for Development Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. The Bruton Center integrates geographic information systems, spatial analysis, and exploratory data analysis in the social sciences, applying research on trends, forces, and public policy. In addition, he spent six years working in health care accounting and financial management for a Dallas-area health care system.
Dr. Herrick received a Ph.D. in Political Economy and a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Dallas with a concentration in economic development. Dr. Herrick's dissertation research examined patient empowerment through empirical analysis of the Internet and disease advocacy.
He also holds an MBA with a concentration in finance from Oklahoma City University and an MBA from Amber University, as well as a BS in accounting from the University of Central Oklahoma.
Judith Solomon
Senior Fellow
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Solomon joined the Center in January 2005 as a Senior Fellow specializing in Medicaid and SCHIP with a focus on state level issues.
Before coming to the Center, Solomon was a Senior Policy Fellow at Connecticut Voices for Children and Executive Director of the Children's Health Council where she directed the Council's work on policy analysis, outreach, education and training, and independent oversight of health care services provided through Connecticut’s Medicaid managed care program.
She also has worked as a legal services attorney specializing in the area of public benefits and has taught a course on Medicaid and SCHIP at the Yale University School of Medicine (Department of Epidemiology and Public Health).
She is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and Rutgers University School of Law in Newark.
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