Dean Rosen
Dean A. Rosen has served over the past decade in a variety of senior legal and health policy positions in both the public and private sectors. He has had a hand in nearly every major piece of federal health care legislation passed during that period, including the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.
Mr. Rosen currently serves as health policy director for United States Senate Majority Leader William H. Frist, M.D. From April 2001 until January 2003, he was staff director for the United Senates Senate Subcommittee on Public Health, which was chaired by Senator Frist (R-TN), the Senate’s only physician.
Before joining the Subcommittee, Mr. Rosen was senior vice president of policy and general counsel for the Health Insurance Association of America. At HIAA, Mr. Rosen played a central role in the association’s policy formation process and also represented the association on all legal matters.
Mr. Rosen came to HIAA from the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, where he served as majority counsel and was responsible for issues relating to Medicare, health care financing and delivery, and access to care. There, he played a leading role in developing the Medicare provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. He also served as health policy coordinator and majority counsel to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, where he had principal responsibility for advising the committee chair (Senator Nancy Kassebaum, R-KS) on a wide range of health care and employee benefit issues, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
Mr. Rosen received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law and an M.S., magna cum laude, from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and the State of Minnesota. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship, and serves on the Advisory Committee to the Center for Studying Health System Change and the National Health Policy Forum Steering Committee.
