Jackson Williams

Jackson Williams is director of regulatory affairs at Dialysis Patient Citizens. From 2010 to 2013, he worked on health care quality and payment reform issues at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Previously, he was a health services researcher in the AARP Public Policy Institute and a lobbyist on health policy issues for three nonprofit associations. He has taught courses in political science and law at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago-Kent College of Law Illinois Institute of Technology, and Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. He is serving his seventh term as one of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ funded consumer representatives. Since 2016, he has been a member of CMS’s technical expert panel on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act Physician Resource Use Measures, and he recently was appointed to the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee. Principal areas of Williams’ health policy advocacy and research include consumer protections; price and quality transparency; patient priorities for quality measurement development, reporting, and inclusion in value-based purchasing programs; alternative payment models; and the impact of social capital on health care phenomena.