Murray Ross, PhD
Vice President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.; Director, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc
One Kaiser Plaza, 22nd Floor
Oakland,
CA
USA
94612
Biographical Sketch: Murray Ross is Vice President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and leads the Kaiser
Permanente Institute for Health Policy in Oakland, California. Kaiser Permanente is the
largest private integrated health care delivery system in the U.S., serving over 10 million
people in eight states and Washington, D.C. The Institute seeks to shape public policy
and private practice by sharing evidence and experience from Kaiser Permanente’s
operations through publications, expert roundtables, and conferences.
Dr. Ross speaks frequently to domestic and international audiences on a range of health
care topics and serves on a number of academic and non-profit boards. His current work
focuses on how American health care can make better use of new medical technologies
and how public policy can support better alignment of clinical and financial decisionmaking
to improve health and the quality and affordability of health care.
Before joining Kaiser Permanente in 2002, Dr. Ross was a policy advisor to the U.S.
Congress, first at the Congressional Budget Office and later as the executive director of
the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.
Dr. Ross earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland, College
Park, and completed his undergraduate work in economics at Arizona State University.
Papers:
PLENARY: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (ACA): PERSPECTIVES OF THE GOVERNMENT, PHYSICIANS, HOSPITALS, PAYERS, AND PATIENTS