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 Services, Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, Department of Managed Health Care,
Department of Industrial Relations 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. He has worked on state and national health insurance in the political arena and 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 and at Holy Names University in Oakland. He now serves as a
Research Affiliate at the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the UC Davis School of Medicine/Health System. |
