Boris Vabson is currently a Senior Advisor at CMS. He was previously a faculty member and researcher at Harvard Medical School (on leave), and a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the USC-Schaeffer Center for Health Policy. Alongside his academic work, Boris was involved in a number of leading ventures in the health tech and insurance tech spaces, as an advisor, consultant, and entrepreneur.

Boris is one of the nation's leading researchers and policy experts on the Medicare program. Boris's research has looked at opportunities for improving the cost-efficiency and performance of Medicare and Medicaid. He has also examined the ongoing privatization of these programs—specifically, how privatization should be structured to optimize outcomes—and the impact of different health insurance design features. His research has been published in top economics journals, covered by major news media outlets, and extensively cited by legislators and regulators. His work on Medicare Advantage was named a finalist for the 2019 NIHCM Research Awards, recognizing the most impactful health care research in America.

He received his Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and was also a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at NBER. He received his AB from Dartmouth in Economics and Mathematics.