Murray Ross, PhD

Vice President and Director Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy

Murray Ross is vice president, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, and director of the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy in Oakland, California. The Institute for Health Policy supports research, expert roundtables, and conferences—all intended to increase understanding of policy issues and help identify solutions.

Before joining Kaiser Permanente in 2002, Murray spent most of his professional career as a policy advisor to the United States Congress. He served almost five years as the executive director of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, an influential nonpartisan agency charged with making recommendations on Medicare policy issues to the Congress. Previously, he spent nine years at the Congressional Budget Office, lastly heading up the group charged with assessing the budgetary impact of legislative proposals affecting the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Murray earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park and completed his undergraduate work in economics at Arizona State University.