Jim Frogue
Vice President and Director of State Policy

Jim Frogue serves as the Center for Health Transformation’s chief liaison to state policy projects. His primary areas of focus are Medicaid, consumerism and fraud. Prior to joining the Center in 2005, Mr. Frogue was for three years Director of the Health and Human Services Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council where he coordinated the development and dissemination of market-oriented health policies among state legislators from 45 states. Mr. Frogue also has served three Members of Congress, most recently as Legislative Director for Congresswoman Kay Granger of Texas. He also spent two years as the healthcare policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation.

Mr. Frogue has twice testified to Congress – Senate Special Committee on Aging and the House Energy and Commerce Committee, - and state legislatures in Missouri, Florida, Texas, Ohio, Kansas, Colorado, Alaska, and Georgia, as well as to the Medicaid Commission, the Western Governors' Association, and to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Importation Task Force. He is a sought-after public speaker having given hundreds of speeches in 39 states across the country including addresses at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the School of Public Health, the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Health Chairs Meeting, and the Alliance for Health Reform. He also was appointed by Speaker William J. Howell to the Virginia Council on Human Resources and will serve through 2012.

He has appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America, Fox’s Glenn Beck, CNBC’s Bullseye and Power Lunch, and countless radio shows including NPR’s The Diane Rehm show, All Things Considered, On Point, and the Kaiser Network’s “Ask the Experts” webcast. Mr. Frogue’s op-eds have appeared in Roll Call, The Hill, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Chicago Sun Times, the Washington Times, Birmingham News, Florida Sun-Sentinel, Modern Healthcare and Health Care News. He is editor of the book Stop Paying the Crooks (CHT Press, 2009).

Jim holds a Master of Philosophy degree from Cambridge University and a Bachelor of Arts with honors from the University of Southern California. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.