An associate professor, Professor Tompkins is the director of program evaluation at the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy. He specializes in health care financing and strategic approaches to managing health care utilization patterns. He has developed conceptual and empirical models for financing health care services in ways that promote accountability and efficiency and has evaluated programs ranging from managed care and disease management to prescription drug diversion control. Professor Tompkins teaches courses on health care financing, program evaluation, and data analysis techniques. He received his Ph.D. from The Heller School. 

Select published articles:

• Tompkins, C.P., Altman, S.H., Eilat, E... "The Precarious Pricing System for Hospital Services." Health Affairs 25. 1 (2006): 45-56.
• Altman, S.H., Tompkins, C.P., Eilat, E., Glavin, M.P.V.. "Escalating Health Care Spending: Is It Desirable or Inevitable?." Health Affairs 22. 1 (2003): W3-1 to W3-14.
• Wallack, S.S., Tompkins, C.P.. "Realigning Incentives in Fee-for-Service Medicare." Health Affairs 22. 4 (2003): 59-70.
• Glavin, M.P.V., Tompkins, C.P., Wallack, S.S., Altman, S.H.. "An Examination of Factors in the Withdrawal of Managed Care Plans from the Medicare Plus Choice Program." Inquiry-the Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing 39. 4 (2002): 341-354.
• Tompkins, C.P., Wallack, S.S. , Skwara, K.C.. "The Road Ahead for Medicare Managed Care: Addressing the Needs of the Chronically Ill." Journal of Long-Term Home Health Care 17. 2 (1998): 11-20.
• Tompkins, C.P., Bhalotra, S., Garnick, D.W., Chilingerian, J.A.. "Physician Profiling in Group Practices." Journal of Ambulatory Care Management 19. 4 (1996): 28-39.
• Tompkins, C.P., Wallack, S.S., Bhalotra, S., Chilingerian, J.A., Glavin, M.P.V., Ritter, G., Hodgkin, D.. "Bringing Managed Care Incentives to Medicare's Fee-for-Service Sector." Health Care Financing Review 17. 4 (1996): 43-63.