Brian Miller

Expertise

• Artificial Intelligence
• FDA
• Health Care Policy
• Health Care Regulation
• Payment Policy
• Veterans Health Affairs

Research interests

• Health Care
• Law & Policy
• Science & Technology

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  Brian Miller

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  Brian J. Miller, MD, is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution focused on FDA regulatory policy and Medicare payment policy. He is a hospitalist at Johns Hopkins Hospital and an associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is a commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and a trustee of the North Carolina State Health Plan.

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  Brian J. Miller, MD, is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution where he focuses on Food and Drug Administration regulatory policy and Medicare payment policy. Concurrently, he is a practicing hospitalist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and an associate professor of medicine and business (courtesy) at Johns Hopkins University. He divides his time between clinical practice and health policy research, running the largest market-driven academic health policy research group in the country.

  Dr. Miller regularly advises government leaders and policymakers. He serves as a commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on the trillion-dollar Medicare program. In 2025, he was appointed a trustee of the North Carolina State Health Plan, a $4.5 billion/year self-insured health plan covering over 750,000 state employees, dependents, and retirees.

  Miller has testified before Congress on Medicare payment reform, biomedical innovation, and health applications of artificial intelligence. His work has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed policy and academic publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Health Affairs Forefront, JAMA Health Forum, and The New England Journal of Medicine. He has also been interviewed and published in the popular press, including C-SPAN, NBC Nightly News, The Hill, and STAT.

  From 2014 to 2017, Dr. Miller served in every major federal regulatory agency overseeing health care, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Federal Communications Commission. He has direct experience with Medicare payment innovation, FDA product review, merger control, and standards development organizations.

  In recognition of his expertise, the FTC retained Dr. Miller as an expert witness on health insurance. His expertise resulted in a judgment in favor of consumers for $195 million. He also served two terms on the CMS Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee, advising CMS on technology assessment and coverage analysis.

  Miller earned his MD from Northwestern University, his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a BS in biochemistry and a BS in chemistry from the University of Washington. He is board certified in internal medicine and in public health and general preventive medicine. He is licensed to practice medicine in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and North Carolina.

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