Jane Horvath

Jane Horvath is an experienced health policy analyst and policymaker.  She has a deep background in Medicaid, commercial insurance markets and regulation, Medicare, and prescription drug pricing and reimbursement.  Jane is part time research professor at Georgetown University Health Policy Institute and a consultant on a variety of health care financing issues, including pharmaceutical costs.  She advises state governments, foundations, private and public sector payors and providers, and consumer advocacy organizations. She developed the Center for Drug Pricing at the National Academy for State Health Policy and held research positions at Johns Hopkins University and MACPAC. Jane spent ten years at Merck working on coverage and reimbursement policies in federal programs. She has worked for the Medicaid Directors, the US Senate Finance Committee, and was a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation (Health) at the US Department of Health and Human Services.