Robert Berenson, M.D. is a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute. He is an expert in health care policy, particularly Medicare, with experience practicing medicine, serving in senior positions in two Administrations, and helping organize and manage a successful preferred provider organization. From 1998-2000, he was in charge of Medicare payment policy and managed care contracting in the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.) In the Carter Administration, he served as an Assistant Director of the Domestic Policy Staff. He was also National Program Director of IMPACS-Improving Malpractice Prevention and Compensation Systems-a grant program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, from 1994-1998.

Dr. Berenson is a board-certified internist who practiced for twelve years in a Washington, D.C. group practice, and is Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is a graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Berenson is also adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. . For ten years he was medical director of the National Capital PPO, a large broker-model PPO serving the Washington D.C. metropolitan areas and was co-author, with Walter Zelman, of The Managed Care Blues & How to Cure Them, published in 1998. Dr. Berenson’s current research focuses on modernization of the Medicare program to improve efficiency and the quality of care provided to beneficiaries.

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