Paul Ginsburg is President of the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). Founded in 1995, HSC conducts research to inform policymakers about changes in organization of financing and delivery of care and their effects on people. Data are gathered through the Community Tracking Study, which includes surveys households and physicians and conducts site visits to interview health system leaders in 12 communities that are representative of the nation. HSC is widely known for the objectivity and technical quality of its research and its success in communicating it to policy makers and the media as well as to the research community. Affiliated with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., HSC receives core funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. To learn more about HSC, please visit its web site: www.hschange.org.

Dr. Ginsburg served as the founding Executive Director of the Physician Payment Review Commission (now the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission). Widely regarded as highly influential, the Commission developed the Medicare physician payment reform proposal that was enacted by the Congress in 1989. Dr. Ginsburg was a Senior Economist at RAND and served as Deputy Assistant Director at the Congressional Budget Office. Before that, he served on the faculties of Duke and Michigan State Universities. He earned his doctorate in economics from Harvard University.

Dr. Ginsburg is a noted speaker and consultant on the changes taking place in the health care system and the future outlook. In addition to presentations on the overall direction of change, recent topics have included cost trends and drivers, consumer driven health care, and competition in health care. In August 2003, Modern Healthcare again named him one of the 100 most powerful persons in health care. He is a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a Public Trustee of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and served two elected terms on the Board of AcademyHealth.

August 2003

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