Katherine Hempstead
Senior Policy Officer
Katherine Hempstead is a senior policy adviser at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She works on healthcare issues, mostly those related to health insurance, costs, and access to care. In her work in the policy unit, she seeks to inform policy discussions at the federal and state level by making data and analyses widely available. She is particularly interested making new sources of data that have the potential to inform policy available to researchers and the public sector.
Katherine joined the Foundation in 2011. Prior to that, she was the director of the Center for Health Statistics in the New Jersey Department of Health, where she focused on analysis and dissemination of major data sets including vital statistics, hospital discharge data, and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. In this role she became involved in a number of CDC surveillance projects, and led New Jersey’s participation in the National Violent Death Reporting System. During this time, she also worked at New Jersey’s Office of the Attorney General, where she led the internal evaluation of several criminal justice initiatives and participated in other analytical projects. Katherine also served on the faculty at the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, where she is still a visitor.
Katherine received a PhD in Demography and History from the University of Pennsylvania, where she also received a bachelor’s degree in history and economics. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Office of Population Research at the Woodrow Wilson School. Katherine has taught history, public policy, and biostatistics in various settings. She frequently speaks and writes about health insurance and other healthcare topics. She is also an active researcher, and has authored numerous articles in the peer reviewed literature.
Latest Commentary
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What’s at stake for enrollees over 400% FPL if enhanced premium tax credits expire?10/17/2024
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Coverage of Obesity Therapies in State-Regulated Markets08/20/2024
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When Medical Debt Relief Is Not Enough06/07/2024
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Marketplace Pulse: Health Insurance Coverage in Farm Country05/01/2024
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Marketplace Pulse: What's Going on with Medicaid Redetermination?03/21/2024
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Marketplace Pulse: Overlap Between Marketplace and Medicaid Continues to Increase02/28/2024
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Marketplace Pulse: Differences in Cost-Sharing Create Barriers to Mental Healthcare in Medicare Advantage02/01/2024
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Marketplace Pulse: Health Plan Participation Outlook12/18/2023
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Marketplace Pulse: The Challenge of Obtaining Mental Healthcare in the Marketplace11/13/2023
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Marketplace Pulse: Who Covers Abortion in the Individual Market?10/25/2023
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Marketplace Pulse: What's Going on With Employer Insurance?09/28/2023
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Marketplace Pulse: Differences in Cost-Sharing for Mental Health and Primary Care Services Persist08/24/2023
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Marketplace Pulse: Leading Medicaid MCOs in States that Have Reported Medicaid Disenrollment07/11/2023
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Work Requirements are a Policy Failure: Why are They Still an Option?05/23/2023
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Marketplace Pulse: Work Requirements in Medicaid and Behavioral Healthcare05/18/2023
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Marketplace Pulse: Crossing the Bridge to the Marketplace04/06/2023
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Marketplace Pulse: Medicaid and Marketplace Provider Networks03/08/2023
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Marketplace Pulse: How is Competition Evolving in the Marketplace?02/02/2023
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Marketplace Pulse: Taking Stock of ICHRAs12/14/2022
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Cost-Sharing for Mental Health Services and Primary Care in the Individual and Small Group Markets. Is it Always the Same?10/17/2022
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Marketplace Pulse: The Importance of Coverage in a Post-Dobbs World07/20/2022
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Marketplace Pulse: The Coming Coverage Cliff—Some States Have a Lot to Lose05/11/2022
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Fiscal Impact of Expanding Medicaid in Mississippi02/01/2022
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Marketplace Pulse: Participation in 202201/18/2022
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Marketplace Pulse: COVID-19 and the Coverage Gap09/01/2021
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Marketplace Pulse: COVID Testing and Commercial Insurance03/08/2021
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Marketplace Pulse: Unpacking Increased Participation02/10/2021
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December Marketplace Pulse: Prescription Drug Benefit12/18/2020
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Marketplace Pulse: Broad Range of Insurers Enter an Increasingly Competitive ACA Marketplace10/16/2020
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Marketplace Pulse: The COVID Recession and Uninsurance: What’s in a Model?08/27/2020
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Marketplace Pulse: The Bermuda Triangle of COVID-19 Testing08/18/2020
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Making Sense of Competing Estimates08/01/2020
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Marketplace Pulse: The Medicaid Map May Shape Marketplace Entry06/11/2020
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Marketplace Pulse: COVID-19 and the Individual Market04/17/2020
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Deductibles on the Individual and Small Group Markets, 202003/06/2020
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Marketplace Premiums and Insurer Participation: 2017-202001/16/2020
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Marketplace Pulse: Plan-Spreading12/12/2019
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Marketplace Pulse: Volatility in the Individual Market10/23/2019
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Marketplace Pulse: Are the Markets Ready for the HRA Rule?07/18/2019
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Marketplace Pulse: Medicaid Managed Care Organizations in the Individual Market05/20/2019
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Marketplace Pulse: Cost-Sharing for Drugs Rises Sharply at Higher Tiers03/01/2019
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Cost Trends - Looking Ahead01/15/2019
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Marketplace Pulse: Per Capita Change in Monthly Spending to Stay in Same Plan Under Hypothetical Scenario11/01/2018
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Marketplace Pulse: Percent of Plans with Out of Network Benefits10/04/2018
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Marketplace Pulse: Giant Steps08/01/2018
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Marketplace Pulse: In Through the Out Door07/09/2018
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Marketplace Pulse: Change in Number of Carriers Offering Off-Exchange Only Plans by County06/01/2018
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Marketplace Pulse: Bright Spots05/01/2018
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Marketplace Pulse: After the Silver Load04/01/2018
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Coverage Declines May Slow Health Care Spending Growth03/27/2018
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Decision Support Tools Improved in 2018 but Vary Across States03/01/2018
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Marketplace Pulse: Mixed Harvest01/03/2018
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Marketplace Pulse: The Unsubsidized Will Always Be With Us11/27/2017
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Marketplace Pulse: Marketplace Shifts as National Carriers Withdraw10/24/2017
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Beyond the Coverage Bump: Is Spending Growth Returning to Pre-ACA Levels?10/10/2017
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Marketplace Pulse: Leaky Risk Pools Sink Markets08/16/2017
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The "Real Killer" Is Still Out There: Update on Health Care Spending08/07/2017
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Marketplace Pulse: Bare County Jamboree07/19/2017
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Change in Carrier Participation in ACA Marketplaces by County07/11/2017
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How Is Health Care Utilization Changing?06/09/2017
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A Big Picture Look at the Individual Market06/06/2017
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New Effort Will Give Researchers Access to Valuable Health Datasets04/24/2017
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Is the Slowdown Slowing Down?04/07/2017
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The Potential Impact of Additional Carrier Exits on the Individual Market03/10/2017
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Settling In for Some Slowth? Health Care Spending Growth Slows Down at Year’s End02/08/2017
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Moderate Growth to Start the New Year? Health Care Spending Growth Slows in First Three Quarters of 201601/18/2017