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Albert Lowey-Ball, MS, MA, is a health economist and President of
Albert Lowey-Ball Associates, Inc. (ALBA). He is
currently serving as a Health Economics and Medicaid Advisor to the California Program on Access to Care, UC Berkeley, School of Public
Health. Recently, he has worked
extensively on State health insurance
and Medicaid managed care issues. In 2004-2005, he prepared economic analyses of health care mergers, hospital reimbursement approaches and the impacts of Medi-Cal managed care expansion. He also completed work estimating savings and benefits-related impacts from certain Workers Compensation reforms for Bickmore Risk Services. He recently worked as an HMO quality and economics consultant to the California Office of the Patient Advocate and as managed care advisor to a developing statewide nonprofit AIDS network.
He also recently served as a health economist to a firm providing
actuarial services to the CalPERS Health Benefits program. |
In 2002, he served as a Medi-Cal consultant, estimating impacts of price and benefits changes and changes in delivery systems, to Health Net, one of California’s largest health plans. In 2001, Lowey-Ball served as a consultant to The Lewin Group on the Health Care Options Project estimating the benefits and costs of alternative state health insurance approaches. He also worked as a health policy-economics adviser to Lewin on impacts of changes in Medi-Cal eligibility. He has extensive experience working with state health databases from the Department of Health Care Services, Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, Department of Managed Health Care,
Department of Industrial
Relations, the Department of Insurance, and the Employee
Development Department.
In 2000, Lowey-Ball was a co-author of Global Health Care Markets,
a comprehensive guide to health systems around the world. He served as a health economics adviser to CalPERS on the benefits and costs of direct provider contracting. He has consulted to major HMOs and Medi-Cal managed care plans, health care purchasers, hospital-health systems, medical groups, health data systems vendors, labor unions, other consulting firms and public agencies in California and other states in the last 20 years.
Lowey-Ball played a pioneering
role in the development of Medi-Cal managed care plans
in California in the 80s and 90s. He helped
start California’s first County Organized Health
System, the Santa Barbara Health Initiative
(now CenCal Health ). He has commented on health care marketplace developments to local and national media.
Lowey-Ball is a graduate of Rice University, Georgetown University and the University of Maryland where he received, respectively, a BA in History, MS in International Economics, and MA and PhD Candidacy in Economics. He served as part-time faculty in health policy and economics at the University of San Francisco, Dominican University in San Rafael and Holy Names University in Oakland. He now serves as a
Research Affiliate at the Center
for Health Research and Policy in Primary Care at the UC Davis School of Medicine/Health System. |
