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Gary Gaumer, Ph.D.

Professor Gary GaumerAssistant Professor of Health Care Administration
B.S. Bradley University
Ph.D. Northern Illinois University
gary.gaumer@simmons.edu

Dr. Gaumer is a health economist with program responsibility for courses in Finance, Economics, Information Systems and Statistics. He has been a prominent health services researcher, leading the activities of Cambridge-based Abt Associates in this area for many years. He is an expert on incentive payment systems in health care, and has helped Medicare develop such systems and has established programs for Medicaid in states such as Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Montana, Alaska and New Mexico. He is also doing research on Alternative Medicine in Managed Care. As a consultant, he implements health financing and information systems reforms for World Bank and the State Department in Egypt, Jordan, Albania, Armenia, Kosovo and Iraq. He serves on the Board of the VNA Care Network Hospice. He publishes in and reviews papers for leading health policy journals.