Shannon Wu, Ph.D., is the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Senior Associate Director of Payment Policy focusing on the association’s work on Medicare inpatient and rural hospital issues. Ms. Wu came to the AHA from Cornerstone Research, where she served as an Associate working on a wide range of economic analyses for healthcare litigation matters, including hospital mergers and provider reimbursements. Previously, she has also worked in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. Wu received her Ph.D. in health services research and policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her B.A. from Princeton University.