Future CMS Policy Directions on Medicare Advantage
Boris Vabson, PhD, Senior Advisor at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 12:00 to 1:15 pm (In Person Event, Registration Required)
Colonial Penn Center (CPC) Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA (Get Directions).
Boris Vabson, PhD will discuss the current state of Medicare Advantage and the Medicare program broadly, as seen from a research, data, and policy lens and from his perch as a Senior Advisor for MA at CMS. Dr. Vabson will also speak to CMS’s future policy directions around Medicare Advantage, including the policy levers that CMS intends to use to enhance competition within the program and maximize its value to beneficiaries and taxpayers. Finally, Dr. Vabson will speak to his own career journey from researcher to policymaker, and how it’s changed his perspective on how and where research can be most valuable and how its policy relevance can be maximized.
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Boris Vabson is a health economist and a leading policy expert on the Medicare program. He is currently CMS’s senior advisor on Medicare Advantage, supporting the agency’s policy priority of program modernization. He was previously a faculty member and researcher at Harvard Medical School, as well as a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and USC-Schaeffer Center. Boris’s research has focused on payment, benefit, coverage, and market design within the Medicare program. Boris has published in leading journals and been cited extensively by regulators and legislators. He also worked with leading ventures in the health tech and health data space, 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.