Robin Rudowitz is an Associate Director for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, a major initiative of the Kaiser Family Foundation.  The Commission functions as a policy institute and forum for analyzing health care coverage and access for the low-income population and assessing options for reform.  Ms. Rudowitz, who has been with the Commission since August 2004, identifies policy opportunities for the Commission, develops and oversees some of the Commission’s research, and develops and writes Commission publications.  Her work focuses on Medicaid financing issues.

Prior to coming to the Commission, Ms. Rudowitz was a Senior Manager at The Lewin Group, a health policy and management consulting firm, where she worked on a wide variety of health policy and delivery issues related to safety-net providers, Medicaid payments and the uninsured. 

Ms. Rudowitz has also spent time working on budget and health policy issues at the federal, state and local levels of government.  From 1999 to 2001 she served as the Medicaid Director in the Office of Legislation at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.  Prior to that, she worked for the District of Columbia’s Chief Financial Officer, overseeing funding for the District’s Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and public health programs.  She also worked at the Congressional Budget Office preparing estimates for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program through the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and before that for the Ways and Means Committee for the New York State Assembly.  Ms. Rudowitz was educated at Cornell University where she earned her undergraduate degree and a Master’s in Public Administration.