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Altman, Ph.D., Stuart
ChairIndependent & Quasi-Public Agencies
- Agency Independent & Quasi-Public Agencies
- Division Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
- Title Chair
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Address
50 Milk St. 8Th Floor
Boston, MA 2109 - Phone 617-979-1400
Official Record
- Years in Current Position 1
Personal Information
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Education & Career
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Education
- M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from UCLA
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Previous Employment
- Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University
- 1971 and 1976, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation/Health at the U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare (HEW)
- 1972 to 1974, Deputy Director for Health as part of President Nixon’s Cost-of-Living Council
- 1984 to 1996, Chairman of the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (ProPac)
- 1997 appointed by President Clinton, National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare
- 2000 to 2002, Co-Chair of the Legislative Health Care Task Force for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- Dr. Altman is a published author of numerous books and journal articles, the most recent, Power, Politics and Universal Health Care: The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle (2011). He has been recognized as a leader in the health care field by Health Affairs and by Modern Healthcare, which named him in 2006 among the 30 most influential people in health policy over the previous 30 years, and which from 2003 to 2011 named him one of the top 100 most powerful people in health care.