Bowen Garrett

Bowen Garrett, Ph.D., is a senior fellow in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute. His work focuses on health reform and health policy topics, with recent research examining the labor market effects of the Affordable Care Act, the design of Medicare’s payment systems for postacute care, and the effects of a unified cost-sharing design for Medicare. He leads the development of MCARE-SIM and has conducted numerous studies of the likely effects of alternative reform proposals. Previously, he was chief economist of the Center for U.S. Health System Reform and McKinsey Advanced Health Analytics at McKinsey & Company. He is a research associate with the Info-Metrics Institute at American University. Dr. Garrett received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Scholars in Health Policy Research Program.