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Kathy Langwell
Kathryn Langwell,
M.A.
Director
Ms. Langwell has over 25 years of experience in
designing and conducting research, demonstration projects, and evaluations of
health care policy issues. She
served as Project Director for the initial five-year Implementation of the
Medicare Managed Care CAHPS and as Project director and Principal Investigator
for a number of large multi-year program evaluations, including the Evaluation
of the Medicare Managed Care Demonstrations (CMS), Evaluation of Making the
Grade: State and Local Partnerships for School-Based Health Centers (The Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation), and Evaluation of the Military Retirees FEHBP
Insurance Demonstration (DoD/OPM). Ms.
Langwell’s most recent research interests have focused on the role of access
and financing barriers on racial/ethnic health disparities, particularly for
American Indians. She was Project
Director for the CMS study of American Indian Eligibility and Enrollment in
Medicaid, SCHIP and Medicare, Co-Principal Investigator for the DHHS/ASPE Tribal
Self-Governance Evaluation Feasibility Study, Principal Investigator for
research on Barriers to AI/AN Access to DHHS Grant Programs for DHHS/ASPE, and
is currently Principal investigator for the Study of Availability of Data on
AI/AN/NA Health and Well-Being for DHHS/ASPE.
Ms. Langwell served as Deputy Assistant Director for Health, U. S.
Congressional Budget Office from 1989 to 1993 and was Managing Director of the
Health Policy Practice at Barents Group/KPMG Consulting, Inc. from 1993 to 2001.
Ms. Langwell has published extensively on managed care performance and
operations, competition in the market for health care, physician payment
systems, health labor markets, and health disparities.
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