Charles N. Kahn III is a visiting senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where his work focuses on health care policy, payment reform, and the future of American health care. He is concurrently a visiting senior fellow at KFF and a nonresident senior scholar at the University of Southern California’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. Additionally, he serves as co-chair of the international Future of Health collaborative.

Before joining AEI, Mr. Kahn served as president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals. Earlier, he served as president and CEO of the Health Insurance Association of America and led the precedent-setting “Harry and Louise” public affairs campaign. Mr. Kahn spent many years on Capitol Hill, including as staff director of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Health Subcommittee, where he played a central role in writing landmark legislation such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Medicare provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.

Mr. Kahn hosts the podcast KFF’s Business of Health Care with Chip Kahn, and his work has been published in scholarly journals, including Health Affairs and NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Health Care Delivery.

Mr. Kahn earned a master of public health from Tulane University and a bachelor’s degree from The Johns Hopkins University.