Charles W. Wrightson, Jr., PhD, is the vice president and secretary of Actuarial
Research Corporation, a Washington-based research and consulting firm,
where he has worked since 1978 on a wide variety of studies concerning
health finance issues and managed care delivery systems. Dr.
Wrightson’s work has included numerous studies and consulting assignments
with managed care organizations.
He has published in the areas of hmo utilization and costs, evaluation
of health programs, Medicare, Medicaid, and healthcare financial
analysis. His publications have appeared in Medical Care, Health Affairs,
Journal of Applied Probability, Advances in Health Economics and Health
Services Research, GHAA Journal, and Health Care Financing Review. He authored
hmo Rate Setting and Financial Strategy (Health Administration
Press 1990).
He received a BA in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University
(Phi Beta Kappa). He earned his MS and PhD degrees in operations
research and an MPH degree in health administration and planning
from the University of California, Berkeley.
He has lectured at the University of California, George Washington
University, and aahp’s minority training program on hmo finance and
premium rate setting. Dr. Wrightson was also an adjunct professor at
Georgetown University, where he taught graduate-level quantitative
methods courses in the master’s degree program in public policy. |
