Robert Seifert

Robert Seifert is a public policy professional with experience in public sector, not-for-profit, and university settings. His primary focus is health care policies and programs that seek to improve access to care and correct inequities in health care delivery and outcomes. As an independent consultant since 2022, he has worked on projects related to health care spending, Medicaid, telemedicine, medical debt, and private equity ownership of health care providers. From 2007 to 2022, Bob was a senior leader at Commonwealth Medicine, the health care consulting and operations division of the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.

Prior to joining UMass Chan, Bob was executive director of the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute, a program of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation. Earlier, he was policy director of The Access Project, a national not-for-profit organization providing technical assistance to community-based advocacy groups, and health policy manager at the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, a state government agency. He was an adjunct instructor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University Medical School from 2013 to 2022, teaching courses in health care reform and the US health care system.