William Sage

Texas A&M University

William M. Sage, MD, JD, is a tenured professor in Texas A&M’s medical and law schools, a professor by courtesy in the Bush School of Government and Public Service, and the founding faculty director of the university’s Institute for Healthcare Access in Fort Worth, TX. From 2006-2022, he held professorships in law and medicine at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also served as vice provost for health affairs. He was previously a tenured professor at Columbia Law School, and has been a visiting professor at Yale, Harvard and NYU. Dr. Sage is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), where he recently served on the Board on Health Care Services and the Committee on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030, and also is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI). Dr. Sage is a member of the Healthcare System and Value Research (HSVR) study section for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center on bioethics, and a longtime editorial board member of the journal Health Affairs. He has written over 200 articles and has authored or edited four books, including the Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law (2016). He holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard College, medical and law degrees from Stanford University, and an honorary doctorate from Universite Paris Descartes. 

Presentation (PPTX format): Money in Medicine: New Perspectives on an Old Issue