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

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Timothy M. Westmoreland, M. Gregg Bloche & Lawrence O. Gostin, Executive Action to Expand Health Services in the Biden Administration, 325 JAMA 217-218 (2021).
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Timothy M. Westmoreland, M. Gregg Bloche & Lawrence O. Gostin, The Expansion of Health Care Services in the US—Reply, 325 JAMA 2314-2315 (2021).
William M. Sage & Timothy M. Westmoreland, Following the Money: The ACA’s Fiscal-Political Economy and Lessons for Future Health Care Reform, 48 J.L. Med. & Ethics 434-442 (2020).
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U.S. Supreme Court Briefs

Brief of Amici Curiae Pharmacy, Medicine, and Health Policy Experts in Support of Petitioner, Bucklew v. Precythe, No. 17-8151 (U.S. July 23, 2018).
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Book Chapters & Collected Works

Timothy M. Westmoreland, Invisible Forces at Work: Health Legislation and Budget Processes, in The 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]
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