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AcademyHealth Methods Council Members
Linda Bilheimer, Ph.D., is the Deputy Assistant Director for Health at the Congressional Budget Office. She directs a team of economists who analyze the budgetary and policy consequences of legislative proposals for healthcare, with particular emphasis on their cost implications for the federal government and the private sector. Before joining CBO in 1991, Dr. Bilheimer was a senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. in Washington, DC. From 1982 to 1987 she was the Director of Health Statistics and Epidemiology in the Arkansas Department of Health. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
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