Boyd Gilman

Boyd Gilman has more than 20 years of experience leading program evaluations and policy studies in health economics and financing for federal and state governments. His work focuses on Medicare population-based primary care payment reforms, Medicare hospital and post-acute care payment policy reform, Medicare outpatient prescription drug coverage, and cost of care for individuals with chronic conditions and other special health care needs.

Gilman’s experience includes evaluations of the Medicare critical access hospital program, the Medicare rural community hospital demonstration, the Medicare community health access and rural transformation demonstration, and the Medicare frontier extended stay clinic demonstration to ensure that beneficiaries living in the least populated regions of the country have continued access to acute and emergency health care services. He has also used commercial, Medicaid, and Medicare claims to analyze the impact of drug benefit design on the use and cost of prescription medications, including a study to assess the cost-effectiveness of influenza vaccinations among the elderly.

In addition, Gilman has conducted numerous studies on access to and cost of health care services for people with potentially disabling chronic conditions. For example, he helped develop an agent-based, stochastic microsimulation model to estimate the cost-effectiveness of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP). Gilman has developed several health profession workforce forecasting models, for example one that estimates the supply and demand for primary care physicians in Maryland, one that estimates the need for additional outpatient surgical capacity in Vermont, and one that predicts the need for additional physicians and nonphysician clinicians to treat HIV-related medical care. Finally, Gilman has also evaluated the savings associated with reducing adverse drug events in ambulatory care settings and the cost of implementing computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support systems in long-term care facilities.

Gilman publishes regularly in peer-reviewed journals such as Health Services Research, Medical Care, Health Care Financing Review, Journal of Rural Health, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, AIDS Care, and American Journal of Managed Care and presents at professional conferences for AcademyHealth, the American Public Health Association, the International AIDS Conference, and other groups. Before joining Mathematica in 2006, he was a senior economist at RTI International and Health Economics Research, Inc. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University.