MaryBeth Musumeci

MaryBeth Musumeci is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. Her work concentrates on Medicaid for people with disabilities, including issues related to people dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, community integration, and long-term services and supports, and Medicaid demonstration waivers. Prior to joining GW, she spent 11 years at the Kaiser Family Foundation, most recently as an Associate Director in the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Previously, she held a Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellowship at Villanova University School of Law and spent eight years as a civil legal aid lawyer, most recently as the Deputy Legal Advocacy Director of the Disabilities Law Program at Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. in Wilmington, Delaware. There, her practice focused on Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income, other public benefits programs, and civil rights and accessibility issues. She also developed and taught a seminar in Public Benefits Law at Widener University School of Law, clerked in the Delaware Family Court, and held an Independence Foundation Public Interest Law Fellowship representing women transitioning from welfare to work in Chester, Pennsylvania.  She received her B.A. with highest honors from Douglass College, Rutgers University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.