Boris Vabson is a Visiting Fellow at Paragon Health Institute, focusing on Medicare policy. He is a health economist and a leading policy expert on the Medicare program.
Boris was previously a senior advisor at The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), heading up Medicare Advantage (MA) policy at Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), and overseeing key administration efforts around MA program modernization. He was also a faculty member and researcher at Harvard Medical School, as well as a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the USC-Schaeffer Center.
Boris’s policy research has looked at opportunities for improving program performance, cost-efficiency, and health outcomes in Medicare. Boris’s work has been published in leading journals and been cited extensively by CMS, Congress, and MedPAC. He has also worked with leading ventures in the health tech and health data spaces, as an advisor, consultant, and entrepreneur. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Economics from Dartmouth.