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Mila Kofman, Superintendent

Prior to her appointment as Superintendent of Insurance, Mila Kofman was an Associate Research Professor and Project Director at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute. She studied state private health insurance market reforms, regulation, products, and financing strategies. Ms. Kofman was the first in the nation to document the most recent cycle of health insurance scams (a report published by BNA) – research that informed a GAO study and a subsequent Congressional hearing. In addition to more than 30 peer reviewed publications, she has testified before the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and state legislatures.

Ms. Kofman served on the NAIC Consumer Participation Board of Trustees for 6 years, the Board of Directors for URAC for 5 years, and was Co-editor for the Journal of Insurance Regulation for 3 years. In 2007, she was recognized by the American Council on Consumer Interests and was the 2007 Esther Peterson Consumer Policy Forum Speaker.

She has appeared on NPR, CNN, CBS Evening News and has been cited in BusinessWeek, Consumer Reports, the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, Forbes, US News & World Report, AM Best, AP, and other press.

Ms. Kofman was a federal regulator at the U.S. Department of Labor (1997-2001). She worked on legislation and implemented HIPAA and related laws. In 2000, she was appointed Special Assistant to the Senior Health Care Advisor to the President at the White House to work on legislative and regulatory initiatives -- the Patient’s Bill of Rights, long-term care insurance, nursing home reform, and ERISA reform. In 2000, she was honored with the Labor Secretary’s Exceptional Achievement Award.

Ms. Kofman holds a J.D. from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland (summa cum laude).

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Last Updated: July 16, 2008