Public Service
Public Service
In the mid-1990s, Professor Young served a 3-year term as a Gubernatorial-appointed commissioner and chair of the Massachusetts Hospital Payment System Advisory Commission (HospPAC), a 7-member body charged with monitoring access, quality, and fair-market standards as Massachusetts shifted to a more market-oriented health care system.
He also has been a member of the Policy Committee of the Blue Cross/Massachusetts Hospital Association Fund for Cooperative Innovation, and is a Community Dispute Services Panel Member of the American Arbitration Association.
His service on boards of directors includes the following nonprofit organizations:
- Treasurer, Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation, 2000-2008
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (Partners Health Care System), 2001-2005
- Youville Hospital, Cambridge, MA 1997-2000
- Treasurer, The Atrium School, Watertown, MA (1995-97)
- Treasurer, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA (1990-96)
- Symmes Hospital, Arlington, MA (1994 to 1995)
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA (1989-92)
- Treasurer, Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center, Roxbury, MA (1983-85)
- Assistant Treasurer, Parents' and Children's Services, Boston, MA (1979-82)