Charles Roehrig, PhD

Dr. Charles Roehrig is a Vice President and Institute Fellow who directs Altarum’s Center for Sustainable Health Spending (CSHS). His research interests include timelier tracking of health spending, determining its sustainable growth rate, and modeling its future growth.

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The impact of expanded ACA coverage
By Charles Roehrig, PhD | 10:54 am | December 31, 2014
The expansion of insurance coverage to some 10 million individuals in 2014 has implications for the growth rate in national health expenditures and on health workforce requirements. While there is broad agreement that spending and utilization will be pushed upward, there is much debate about the amounts.