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Deborah J. Chollet
Senior Fellow
Senior fellow Deborah Chollet conducts and manages research on private health insurance coverage, markets, provider payments, and regulation—including employer-sponsored health plans for workers and retirees, individual health insurance, health insurance exchanges, and high risk programs.
She has been or is currently the principal investigator and project director in state health policy research projects for Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Wyoming and other states. Under grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the New York State Health Foundation, Chollet currently leads projects, respectively, evaluating risk selection in state programs to expand small-employer and individual coverage, and modeling hospital payment incentives to reduce avoidable readmissions. She also directs Mathematica’s work measuring health care cost trends in Massachusetts and projecting health care spending in Minnesota.
As a senior consultant to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Coverage Initiatives program, Chollet provides technical assistance to states on private health insurance coverage and markets. She is a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and served on the Academy’s Medicare study panel. She has served on the national advisory council for the California Health Benefits Review Board since its inception, and was appointed to the Massachusetts Commission to Study the Impact of Merging the Massachusetts Nongroup and Small Group Health Insurance Markets. Chollet is a member of the editorial boards of Benefits Quarterly and the Journal of Insurance Issues.
Her previous positions include vice president of AcademyHealth; director of the Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research and associate professor of risk management and insurance at Georgia State University; senior researcher at the Employee Benefit Research Institute; and assistant professor of economics at Temple University.
Chollet, who publishes widely in peer-reviewed journals, has testified on health care insurance and coverage issues before the U.S. Congress as well as many state legislatures. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Private health insurance regulation and practice
- Employer-sponsored health plans for workers and retirees, individual health insurance, and state high risk pools
- State health policy and coverage programs
- Analysis of Health Care Provider and Health Care Payer Cost Trends
- Study of Rhode Island's Uninsured
- Establishing Health Care Spending Projections and Certifying Actual Health Care Spending
- Founding member, National Academy of Social Insurance
- National Advisory Committee, California Health Benefits Review Board
- Editorial boards of Benefits Quarterly and Journal of Insurance Issues