wscanlon@hprd.net

William Scanlon is a Senior Policy Advisor with Health Policy R&D, a health policy firm in Washington, D.C., affiliated with the law firm of Powell Goldstein LLP. Health Policy R&D offers its clients a wide range of specialized services, including research, design and analysis of health policy proposals. Dr. Scanlon draws on his professional experience and technical expertise to develop strategic health policy solutions and effective business plans for clients.

Before joining Health Policy R&D, William Scanlon was the Managing Director of Health Care Issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). At GAO, he oversaw Congressionally requested studies of Medicare, Medicaid, the private insurance market and health delivery systems, public health and the military and veterans’ health care systems. Prior to joining GAO in 1993, he was the Co- Director of the Center for Health Policy Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University. Also, Dr. Scanlon was a Principal Research Associate in Health Policy at the Urban Institute.

Currently, Dr. Scanlon is a member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. He served as co-chair of the Department of Health and Human Services Technical Panel on the Medicare Trustees Reports and as a member of the National Commission for Quality Long-Term Care and the Advisory Committee to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. Dr. Scanlon has published extensively and has served as a frequent consultant to federal agencies, state Medicaid programs and private foundations.

 

EDUCATION

PhD Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA, University of Wisconsin - Madison
BA, University of Notre Dame