Rex Cowdry, M.D., M.P.H.

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Rex Cowdry, M.D., M.P.H. 
Senior Advisor
Exchanges Policy and Operations Group
Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight
CMS/HHS
rex.cowdry@hhs.gov

Rex Cowdry serves as a senior policy advisor on exchanges at the CCIIO, with a special focus on the small group market and the Small Business Health Options Program – known as the SHOP. 

Following a 23 year career as a psychiatric researcher, research administrator, and hospital administrator at NIH, Dr. Cowdry served as Senior Scientific Advisor to the American Association of Health Plans, Medical Director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and Associate Director of the White House National Economic Council.  Most recently, he served as Executive Director of the Maryland Health Care Commission, an independent state agency responsible for health policy analysis, data collection and analysis, public reporting of performance and quality, health information technology, and health system planning.