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Michael Brown

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Michael Brown provides analytics expertise to healthcare organizations seeking to understand healthcare policy impacts and develop local- and national-level strategies.

Recently, Michael has helped clients understand downstream impacts of federal health spending under the Inflation Reduction Act and provided clients with Congressional Budget Office-style scoring for draft healthcare legislation in the US Congress.

Before joining Avalere, Michael worked within the Medicare Plan Payment Group at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, helping to develop guidance on the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan and produce the annual Medicare Advantage and Part D Advance Notice and Rate Announcement. Previously, Michael worked in the Office of Budget for the Department of Health and Human Services to help oversee Medicare’s budget across the Department’s various agencies. Before entering federal service, Michael worked at Oak Street Health providing medical economics analysis and insights to help advance the company’s care model strategy.

Michael received a BS in movement science from the University of Michigan, an MA in biomedical science from Midwestern University, and an MPP from the University of Chicago. He is the Board Treasurer for Communities United, a Chicago-based non-profit.

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Avalere Health finds that research funded by the Special Diabetes Program has yielded more than $50 billion in federal healthcare savings

Delaying selection of small-molecule drugs for Medicare negotiation may support the generic market by preserving competition and maximizing long-term savings for payers and the federal government.

Avalere Health estimated how three possible changes to federal Medicaid funding could impact national- and state-level funding in total and for children’s services.

If the ACA marketplace enhanced premium tax credits are made permanent, nearly 5 million people ages 50–64 will be eligible to receive premium subsidies in 2026.

If Mississippi expands Medicaid to 138% federal poverty level, Avalere estimates 125,000 uninsured individuals, ages 19-64, could gain coverage in 2025.