Barbara Smith Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia, United States

We help employers, payers, and providers direct the future of health care by changing the game on value incentives and charting better outcomes for health services in every population. Advises organizations in design and implementation of value-based healthcare to reduce costs, improve outcomes, and improve satisfaction among payers, providers, and.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

➢ Led team as business owner to develop and launch new value-based payment arrangements with payers; led outreach to community organizations to address social determinants of health; guided data analytics team to evaluate health outcomes/return on investment for initiatives created. ➢ Led population health and health equity initiatives. Planned and.

Washington DC

• Advise state and local governments as an expert consultant at one of the leading independent research and consulting firms in the healthcare industry.
• Expertise includes health policy analysis and development of recommendations; coverage expansion; private market reform; chronic disease management; delivery system reform; and governance.
• Currently initiating a project to evaluate the impact of efforts to address food insecurity on health outcomes.
• Led three-year project to improve primary care provider performance and to attain provider integration with community- based organizations; implemented initiatives to achieve better population health and chronic.
• Directed team to evaluate prenatal care delivered through Medicaid in multiple states and assess elements of care, the patient experience in various care models, and outcomes.
• Co-managed an analysis of network adequacy standards in Medicaid and the Marketplaces; recommended changes to achieve better access to care.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Developed and established a new $4 billion Federal loan program under the Affordable Care Act to capitalize and implement the creation of 23 consumer-governed private nonprofit health insurance companies in almost half.
• Acted as a Senior Advisor in the Office of Health Reform during the legislative debate and passage of the Affordable Care Act and subsequently advise the implementation of the Exchange program in the Office of Consumer.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Advised and led major analytic initiatives for policy and research organizations including the Institute of Medicine, the Economic and Social Research Institute, and Health Management Associates.
• Performed health policy analysis, research, and policy development for: financing of and access to health care services and coverage expansion; chronic disease management and potential for savings; Medicaid as an.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Acted as the Program officer for a project with the Committee on Enhancing Federal Healthcare Quality; produced report on the current status and opportunities for improvement in health care quality in Federal health.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Research and analysis of legal and structural implementation of Medicaid managed care (project manager),in every state that had managed care; produced report that became the guidepost to states for how to implement and.
• All projects entailed significant writing and publication as lead or co-author.

Senior legislative advisor for health policy and health care reform to Rep. Jim McDermott, member Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Health, House of RepresentativesDrafted legislative specifications for health reform, developed revenue package with Joint Committee on Taxation, worked with Congressional Budget Office for scoring proposed.

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