Natalia and Albert Lowey-Ball Squaw Peak, 2013
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managed healthcare consultant health economics and policy advisor health policy academic healthcare subject matter expert
Ethnicity:
Dutch-Flemish, Irish-British, German, Malay-Indonesian, Polish-Jewish, Swedish, Chinese, French-Walloon, Czech.
Albert Edward Lowey-Ball was born on July 8, 1942, in Delft, The Netherlands. Came to the United States, 1951. Son of Jacobus Johannes and Agatha Wilhelmina (van Uye) Lowey. Father was a chemical engineer and mother was a school teacher.
Tivy Elementary School, Kerrville, TX; Oliver Junior High School, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Pershing Junior High School, Houston, TX; Bellaire Senior High School, Bellaire (Houston), TX, 1960.
Economist, Public Interest Economics Center, Washington, 1971-1975; Director, Economic Analysis, Health Policy Center, Georgetown University, Washington, 1974-1976; Consultant, Orkand Corporation, Silver Spring, Maryland., 1975-1977; Economist, United States Health Care Financing Administration, Washington, 1977-1978; Executive director, California Health Facilities Commission, Sacramento, 1978-1980; Chief Executive Officer, Santa Barbara Health Initiative, 1980-1984; Director, Health Plan/Managed Care Services, Computer Sciences Corporation (DXC Technology), El Segundo, California, 1985-1987; President, Albert Lowey-Ball Associates, Inc. (ALBA), Sacramento,1987-2014; Adjunct Professor, Health Policy and Economics, Graduate School, U. of San Francisco, 1984-2005; Health Economics and Medicaid Adviser, California Program on Access to Care, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, 2003-2017; Health Economics and Policy Adviser, California Coverage and Health Initiatives, 2017-; Principal, LoweyAssociates, Health Economics Consultants, 2017-
Helped establish one of the first health policy centers in the US, at Georgetown University, 1975. Helped design and implement one of the first successful Medi-Cal (Medicaid) managed care health plans in the US, in Santa Barbara, CenCal Health Plan, 1984. Worked on major nationwide health insurance proposal, Gary Hart Campaign, 1988. Helped prepare one of the first statewide universal health care coverage plans in US and CA, the Garamendi Plan, 1990. Established a pan-Asian (Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian) health plan, River City Health Plan, in Sacramento in 1994, and a multi-ethnic (Black, Middle Eastern and Indian) health plan, Care 1st in LA in 1996. Helped develop one of the first major managed health care regulatory agencies in the US in CA, 1997. Helped prepare an array of universal health care options for CA 2002. Prepared projections of health insurance coverage under Medicaid for all Californians, 2016.
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(Kaiser Family Foundation)
Member Harry Truman Democratic Club, Sacramento, 1987-; Health Policy Adviser, Tom Bradley for Governor campaign, 1982; Health Insurance Adviser, Gary Hart Campaign, Washington, 1984, 1988; Member American Managed Care Review Association; Group Health Association of America, Health Care Financial Management Association (HFMA); Healthcare Information Management Systems (HIMSS); California Advocates for Public Health; Member, Local Health Plans of CA; www.linkedin.com/in/albainc
Friends of the River; Biblical Archeological Society; Sacramento County History and Science Commission
Avocations: World History, Military History, Middle Eastern and Meso-American Archeology, Gothic Architecture, Civil War, Film, Poker
Albert Camus, Adam Smith, Baruch Spinoza, Henry David Thoreau, John Locke
Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Benjamin Disraeli, Michael Collins, Pericles, King David
Robert Penn Warren, William Butler Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Shelby Foote, George Orwell, Stendahl
Rembrandt, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Vermeer, John Constable, Michelangelo, Jacques-Louis David, Peter-Paul Rubens
Tennis, Cross-Country Skiing, Bicycling, Whitewater Rafting, Racquetball
Rafael Nadal, Maurice Richard, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, Bill Russell, Roger Federer
Married Hanna Chen Sadan, November 4, 1972 (divorced October 1980), 1 son, Adam; married Joyce Corinne Johnston, February 11, 1982. Children: Jeremy, Marisa (divorced January 2005); married Natalia Sushilova, April 18, 2008, step-daughter Maria Conrad.
