Since 2001, Professor Westmoreland has taught at Georgetown about health law, about federal budgets, and about legislation. Prior to that, he was the senior policy fellow at the Federal Legislation Clinic.
He has worked extensively on public health and health finance policy. He has served as Counsel to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment in the U.S. House of Representatives and later as the Director of the Medicaid program at HHS. Outside of government, he served as counsel to the Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health and as an advisor to both the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. He has been the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator in Health Policy Award, working on budget process and health policy.
Scholarship
Book Chapters and Collected Works
Timothy M. Westmoreland, Invisible Forces at Work: Health Legislation and Budget Processes, inThe Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law 873-891 (I. Glenn Cohen, Allison K. Hoffman & William M. Sage eds., New York: Oxford University Press 2017). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
Timothy Westmoreland, Waddah B. Al-Refaie, Chaoyi Zheng, Manila Jindal, Michele Lee Clements, Patryce Toye, Lynt B. Johnson, David Xiao, Thomas DeLeire & Nawar Shara, Did Pre-Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion Increase Access to Surgical Cancer Care?,224 J. Am. C. Surgeons 662-669 (2017).
Timothy M. Westmoreland & Sara Rosenbaum, Restructuring Medicaid as Block Grants — Unconstitutional Coercion?,372 New Eng. J. Med. 1785-1787 (2015). [W]
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
Amici Curiae Brief of Public Health Deans, Department Chairs, and Faculty and the American Public Health Association in Support of Petitioners, Whole Woman's Health v. Cole, No. 15-274 (U.S. Jan. 4, 2016).
Congressional Testimony
Medicaid Oversight: Existing Problems and Ways to Strengthen the Program: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Oversight & Investigations of the H. Comm. on Energy & Commerce, 115th Cong., Jan. 31, 2017 (Statement of Timothy M. Westmoreland) (CIS No.: Pending). [WWW]
