Allison K. Hoffman

Academic Fellow, 2008-10

Allison Hoffman is a 2004 graduate of Yale Law School where she was submissions editor for the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics. After graduating, she spent several years as a Corporate Health Care Associate for Ropes & Gray, LLP, and most recently has been a management consultant for The Bridgespan Group, where she counsels leading nonprofits and foundations on management strategy.  During her fellowship, Allison will author an empirical study of Massachusetts Health Care Reform, evaluating the effectiveness of individual mandates as a means toward a universal healthcare policy. Additionally, she also plans to conduct a study arguing for shifting the way we think about healthcare quality initiatives by starting with well-defined, measurable outcomes, as well as to work on a proposal on social insurance to support informal providers of long-term care. 

Selected Writings

“The Need for a Reduced Work Week in the United States” with Vicki Schultz, in Precarious Work, Women, and The New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms (Judith Fudge and Rosemary Owens, eds.), 131, Hart Publishing (2006)

“Detailing Healthcare Reform,” featured chart describing pending agency rules in “Health Care Reform Isn’t a Done Deal...Until They Say It Is: Employers, Insurers, Caregivers to Fight for Input into How Plan Will Work,” by Jeffrey Krasner, The Boston Globe (May 24, 2006)

“Massachusetts Health Care Reform Legislation, Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006: An Act Promoting Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health Care,” with Harvey Cotton, et al., Ropes & Gray Client Alert (April 2006).

“Long-Term Care Insurance,” Supervised Analytical Writing Paper, proposal for a social insurance system for the provision of long-term care for the disabled and aged, Yale Law School, (December 2003).

Research Interests

• Health Law and Policy (including health reform, insurance law, international health policy, and health care quality law and policy)
• Tax Law
• Contracts
• Antidiscrimination Law
  

Education

• Yale Law School, J.D., 2004

  Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics, Submissions Editor

• Dartmouth College, summa cum laude, B.A., 1998

Previous Experience

• The Bridgespan Group
  • Non-profit Management Consultant, 2007-present
• Ropes & Gray, LLP
  
  • Corporate Health Care Associate, 2004-2007
• National Partnership for Women and Families
  • Health Policy Associate, 2003
• Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs
  • Law Clerk, 2002
• The Boston Consulting Group
  • Management Consultant, 1998-2000