Robert E. Hurley, Ph.D.

Department of Health Administration
School of Allied Health Professions
Medical College of Virginia Campus
Virginia Commonwealth University
PO BOX 980203
1008 East Clay Street
Richmond, VA 23298

804.828.1891 (V)
804.828.1894 (F)
rhurley@vcu.edu

Education

University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill School of Public Health

Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy and Administration

Research/Teaching Areas

Bob Hurley has been a faculty member in the Department of Health Administration at the Virginia Commonwealth University since 1990 where he teaches courses in managed care, health benefits coverage and financing,  and organization theory.  He has been conducting research in managed care and other health services issues for the past 20 years.  His particular focus has been on public sector initiatives and reform strategies.  His research has been supported by several federal and state government agencies and by a number of private foundations.  He has published extensively in most of the major health services research journals.  He has given more than 300 presentations around the country to a wide variety of audiences and has testified before the US Senate and several state legislatures.

Hurley has been a consultant to numerous federal agencies and several  state governments, as well private research firms  including Research Triangle Institute, the Urban Institute, and Mathematica Policy Research.  He has been a senior research consultant to the Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington for the past seven  y ears and also chairs the national review committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Medicaid Managed Care program..  He currently serves on the editorial boards of Health Affairs, Medical Care Research & Review, Milbank Quarterly, and Managed Care Quarterly. Dr. Hurley received his masters degree in health administration from the Ohio State University and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill School of Public Health.

Publications

Papers Published

R. Hurley, B. Strunk, and J.Grossman, “Geography and Destiny:  Local Market Perspectives on Regional Medicare Advantage Plans, Health Affairs, July/August, 2005.

R. Hurley, P. Pham, and G. Claxton, “The Widening Rift:  Evidence of Growing Economic Disparities in Access and Quality,”  Health Affairs, Web Exclusive, December 6, 2005.

R. Hurley and S. Retchin, “Medicaid and Medicare Managed Care:  A Tale of Two Trajectories,” American Journal of Managed Care,  January 2006.

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Books, monographs, chapters, book reviews

R. Hurley and S. Zuckerman, “Medicaid Managed Care” Federalism and Health Policy, Wiener, Bovbjerg, and Weil (editors), Urban Institute Press, 2003.

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Others

R. Hurley, “The Medicaid-Focused HMO: A Community Health Conspiracy” Commissioned Paper for Association of Community Health Center Affiliated Health Plans, June 2003.

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