Barbara Dailey Email and Phone Number

Retired Federal Deputy Director responsible for more than $700 million Medicaid/CHIP quality strategy, now expanding to freelance, fiction and screenplay writing considering options for consulting.

• Deputy Director for the Division of Quality & Health Outcomes/Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services/CMS since 2010 (previously Group Special Assistant & Health Insurance Specialist). Certified professional in health care quality. • Supports the DQHO Director/CMCS Chief Quality Officer in performance measurement & quality improvement efforts for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Programs (CHIP) at national, state, health plan, community & provider levels. • Supports innovative quality measurement & improvement programs, including federal level measure streamlining and alignment for provider and state quality reporting.• Technical assistance to states in innovative preventive health, maternal/neonatal/infant health initiatives, and EPSDT/Oral health service reporting.• Technical assistance to States on managed care quality reporting and State quality improvement strategies, and in emerging health care delivery system transformation initiatives through health information systems and electronic health records. • Manages/recommends acquisitions and administration of almost $700 million dollars in appropriated funds through 2027 to support national state Medicaid and CHIP core quality measure reporting to CMS, and related analytic & quality improvement activities.• 2011 Past President of the Board of Directors for the Maryland Association of Healthcare Quality. • Previous clinical nursing experience in pediatric oncology and neonatal intensive care. • Previous Quality Manager for Schaller Anderson/Maryland Physicians Care.• Previous Senior Mid-Atlantic Region Quality Advisor for CIGNA HealthCare.• Previous strategic planning coordinator for the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.• Previous research project coordinator for the nation’s first childhood cancer screening project for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. • Author non-fiction book for parents of children with life-threatening illness - Facts on File, New York (1991).