Niall Brennan, MPP

Health Care Cost Institute Inc. (HCCI)

Speaker

Mr. Brennan is the President and CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing HCCI’s overall research agenda that seeks to highlight trends in U.S. health care spending and the factors behind those trends. Niall also works to maximize the reach of HCCI’s data by licensing directly to leading academic researchers and through HCCI’s role as a Medicare certified Qualified Entity. Niall works closely with federal and state policymakers, including the U.S. Congress on key health policy issues. He is a nationally recognized expert in health care policy, the use of health care data to enable and accelerate health system change, and data transparency. He has published widely in leading academic journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs. Prior to joining HCCI, Mr. Brennan was Chief Data Officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). He has also worked at the Brookings Institution, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the Congressional Budget Office, the Urban Institute, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Brennan received his MPP from Georgetown University and his BA from University College Dublin, Ireland.

When not in the office, Niall enjoys spending time with his family, watching soccer and rugby, and road and mountain bike riding.

For the past 10 years he has been a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Reimbursement Committee and has served as faculty for the ACEP Reimbursement and Coding conference. In 2015, he was asked to chair the ACEP/EDPMA Joint Task Force (JTF) on reimbursement issues, which considers issues and is developing strategy related to out of network (OON) billing and Medicaid. He is a co-founder, past chairman, and current Board of Directors and executive committee member of the Emergency Department Practice Management Association (EDPMA). Ed received EDPMA Founder’s Award (their highest honor) in 2008 and the Meritorious Service Award in 2017.

Other awards include being named a Fellow in the Health Ethics Trust (2000), the NC Chapter of the ACEP Outstanding Advocate for Emergency Medicine Award (2006), the ACEP Speaker of the Year Award (2008) and ACEP Honorary Membership Award (2012).