Mark Zezza, PhD
Research Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform

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Mark Zezza is a research director at the Engelberg Center for Health Reform at the Brookings Institution, where he works on projects focused on provider payment and delivery system reforms. Prior to Brookings, Dr. Zezza was an associate director at the Lewin Group, working on state and national health reform projects analyzing the cost and health insurance coverage impacts of reform proposals. He was also leading a project for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop health care efficiency measures to be used in the outpatient prospective payment system. Dr. Zezza also conducted several analyses used to assist clients to respond to CMS’s proposed changes to Medicare hospital payment policies, particularly, those related to coding adjustments. Prior to Lewin, Dr. Zezza spent over seven years working at CMS performing data analysis for health care financing issues. He worked in several divisions at CMS responsible for provider reimbursements, including inpatient hospital and long-term care hospital prospective payment systems, as well as Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan payments.

Dr. Zezza has presented at several health economics conferences on Medicare payment systems and also coauthored articles and reports on national health expenditure estimates, last-year-of-life Medicare spending and Medicare managed care market areas. Dr. Zezza received a PhD in policy science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.