Bruce Quinn, M.D., Ph.D.
Bruce Quinn, M.D., Ph.D., MBA, formerly the Contractor Medical Director for the California Medicare Part B program, practices within the firm’s Government Strategies practice, where he focuses on Medicare coverage and payment matters for new technologies.
Bruce is a national leader in the areas of Medicare coverage and payment, claims and billing, and Medicare contractor reform processes. Dr. Quinn works with companies, providers and venture capital investors to develop strategies for Medicare payment for new technologies. A large part of this work is on local and national coverage decisions. Bruce focuses, in particular, in the emerging field of molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine. He also advises clients on Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) reform and its effect on payment policy.
Before serving in the Medicare Part B program, Bruce was a physician executive in the Health & Life Sciences division of Accenture and was a clinician-scientist at Northwestern University School of Medicine, leading pathology research for Northwestern’s NIH-funded Alzheimer Research Center. He also held academic positions at New York University School of Medicine and UCLA Center for Health Sciences.
SPEECHES AND CONFERENCES
- Chair, Regulatory Insider - Probing All Hot Spots: G-2 Reports Lab Institute's Changing of the Guard - Working With a New Administration, the New Millennial Generation, and a New Health Care System, Arlington, VA, September 2008
- Regulating the Future of Diagnostics: BIO 2008 International Convention, San Diego, CA, June 2008
- Implementing Personalized Medicine: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) Legal, Regulatory and Policy Seminar, Washington, DC, June 2008
- Removing Reimbursement Barriers and Improving Access to Create a Competitive Advantage: The French-American Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco Life Science Breakfast, May 2008
- Comparative Effectiveness – A new paradigm, 2008
- Technology Assessments: Advamed Medical Technology Reimbursement Workshop, Westin Casuarina Hotel, Casino & Spa Las Vegas, NV, February 2008
- Frequent speaker at national conferences on Medicare issues; most recently, spoke at the Burrill Life Sciences Conference in Laguna Nigel and at the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in Cambridge, MA on personalized medicine
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