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James M. Verdier
Senior Fellow
James Verdier is a senior fellow at Mathematica in Washington, DC.
Verdier's work focuses on Medicaid, state health policy, and Medicare. He is also a senior program consultant for the Center for Health Care Strategies, a foundation-funded organization that helps states develop, purchase, and improve managed health care programs.
Verdier is a visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he has taught courses on Medicaid and state health policy since 1998. He was Indiana's state Medicaid director from 1991 to 1997, and deputy director of the Michigan Department of Management and Budget from 1989 to 1990. He also taught public management and policy analysis at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University from 1983 to 1989.
A former head of the Congressional Budget Office’s Tax Analysis Division from 1979 to 1983, Verdier served as a legislative assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate from 1968 to 1975. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Medicaid and Medicare
- State health policy
- Medicaid and Medicare Spending on Dual Eligible Beneficiaries
- Evaluation of Oklahoma’s SoonerCare Medicaid 1115 Waiver Program
- Medicaid Mental Health Services Data and Program Reports
- Visiting lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
- "Enhanced Primary Care Case Management Programs in Medicaid: Issues and Options for States" (September 2009)
- "Medicare Governance and Provider Payment Policy." Health Affairs (September/October 2009)
- "Medicaid Beneficiaries with Congestive Heart Failure: Association of Medication Adherence with Healthcare Use and Costs." The American Journal of Managed Care (July 2009)