Terry Hammons

Terry Hammons, M.D., is senior fellow at the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) and the MGMA Center for Research. He received an undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Kansas, a master’s degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Hammons has published works in cell biology, clinical pathology, health services and applied clinical research, and more recently in health management and policy. As deputy director of the Physician Payment Review Commission from 1987 to 1990, he helped develop Medicare physician-payment reform that was enacted by Congress in 1989.