Meg Murray

Murray is the founding CEO of the Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP). She has led the organization since its inception in 2001, steering it through tremendous growth from its origins as an association of 14 community health center–owned plans to 81 safety net health plans across the nation, covering more than 25 million people through Medicaid, Medicare, and health insurance marketplaces.

Prior to leading ACAP, Murray was the Medicaid director for the State of New Jersey under the administration of Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, where she oversaw the expansion of the FamilyCare program to cover all children under 350 percent of the poverty level. She also was a senior budget analyst for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, with responsibility for negotiating the budget neutrality agreements for Medicaid managed care waivers.

Murray is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and serves on the board of directors of the Alliance for Health Policy. She also serves on the Medicaid Policy Center Advisory Committee of the New Jersey Quality Institute.

Murray has previously served on the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Public Financing and Delivery of HIV Care, the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission, and a board of a community health center in southern Maryland.

A national expert on health care policy for people with low incomes, Murray is a frequent speaker on these issues at national conferences and in the media. She has published several articles on the German health care system as a result of an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship in Berlin in 1992 and more recently in summer 2018. Murray holds a master’s degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University and a bachelor’s degree cum laude in economics and classical civilization from Wellesley College.