Drawing on years of experience working in the Administration and the private sector, Kristen is skilled at translating policy, regulatory and legislative developments into effective business and communications strategies. She focuses on a wide range of health care policy issues, including Medicare payment policy, payment and delivery system reform, health IT and more.
She previously worked on health care regulatory and policy issues as an attorney at DLA Piper and in the Obama Administration as an advisor to the National Coordinator for Health IT, and at the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President.
On December 22, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that 89 new organizations will join the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) in January 2015. These accountable care organizations (ACOs) will bring approximately 23,000 additional physicians and other providers into the ACO program, and will likely be the last group of program entrants […]