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John E. Schneider, PhD is a managing principal of HECG LLC and is currently a faculty affiliate at the Nicolas Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare at the University of California Berkeley. He was recently on the faculty in the Department of Health Management and Policy and the Department of Economics at the University of Iowa. His PhD is in Health Services and Policy Analysis from the University of California Berkeley, with a concentration in health economics.

He has over 15 years of experience studying economic and organizational aspects of the health care industry. After earning an MA in economics, Dr. Schneider was a research analyst at the Center for Health Economics Research from 1989 to 1993, involved extensively in analyses of large databases, cost analyses, and economic modeling of regulatory programs. While at CHER he co-authored more than 10 technical project reports for clients including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. After earning his PhD, Dr. Schneider served as the Director of Research at the California Association of Health Plans for two years. At CAHP, he led projects on collaborative quality improvement, policy analysis, public relations, and developing research to support government relations functions for the $65 billion health insurance industry in California. Dr. Schneider has also served as a consultant to managed care organizations, state health departments, trade associations, medical device manufacturers, large pharmaceutical companies, and others. He has also served as an expert witness on the economics of hospital competition and hospital payment.