Robin Gelburd
President
As the founding President of FAIR Health, Robin Gelburd, JD, built the organization into a trusted national leader in healthcare cost transparency, data analytics and benchmarks, utilizing its vast collection of 49 billion commercial healthcare claim records that grows at a rate of over 3 billion claim records a year—the largest such repository in the country. Certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as a national Qualified Entity, FAIR Health also receives data representing the experience of all individuals enrolled in traditional Medicare Parts A, B and D. Robin is a nationally recognized expert on healthcare policy and health literacy and transparency. Selected as one of Crain’s 2019 Notable Women in Health Care, she has been invited to speak to organizations across the country. She has given keynote addresses to health policy conferences in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Arizona and elsewhere, and has been an invited speaker for the World Health Organization, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and the National Press Club on a wide variety of topics. She is also sought after as an expert to address federal and state legislative bodies and agencies, including the Department of Health & Human Services, CMS, the Health Resources & Services Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has been quoted in major media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Kaiser Health News and more, and has been a contributor to outlets such as U.S. News & World Report, STAT and the American Journal of Managed Care. She has overseen FAIR Health research publications on many healthcare topics, including COVID-19, the opioid crisis and Lyme disease, and created and supervises FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, an online resource on telehealth. Prior to being recruited as President of FAIR Health, Robin served as General Counsel of a medical research foundation comprising approximately 30 premier academic medical centers, hospitals and research institutions in New York State and as a health law partner at a New York City law firm. Earlier, Robin worked as a litigation and corporate associate at the international law firm Morrison & Foerster. She began her legal career as a federal appellate law clerk to the Honorable Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., from the Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit.