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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 visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, where he has co-taught courses on Medicaid and state health policy since 1998.
He was the Indiana state Medicaid director from 1991 to 1997, and deputy director of the Michigan Department of Management and Budget from 1989 to 1990. He taught public management and policy analysis at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard 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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Staff Profile
- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Medicaid and Medicare
- State health policy
- Technical Assistance to Support State Efforts to Integrate Care for High-Need, High-Cost Individuals
- Prescription Drug Utilization in Medicaid
- Assistance with Dual Eligible Program Design for New York State
- Evaluation of Oklahoma’s SoonerCare Medicaid 1115 Waiver Program
- Visiting lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
- "Trends and Patterns in the Use of Prescription Drugs Among Medicaid Beneficiaries: 1999 to 2009." Issue Brief (March 2013)
- “Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Coverage for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees in the Capitated Financial Alignment Demonstration.” Integrated Care Resource Center Technical Assistance Brief (March 2013)
- "Integrating Care for Dual Eligibles in New York: Issues and Options" (February 2012)
- "State Options for Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health Care." Integrated Care Resource Center Technical Assistance Brief (October 2011)