Colorado Medicaid Initiatives and Changes as it Relates to Hospital-Based Care – 2021 Hospital Medicine

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

PRESENTER(S)

COVID-19 pandemic implications on the state budget
Health equity implications highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic
The hospitalist role in responding to COVID-19 on behalf of Medicaid members

Medicaid Leadership Institute
Tracy Johnson brings more than 20 years of experience in health policy and program development, research, and evaluation. Johnson currently serves as the State of Colorado Medicaid Director in the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Previously she was with Denver Health and Hospital Authority (DHHA) where she served as DHHA’s Director of Health Care Reform Initiatives. She led Denver Health’s implementation of federal health care reform, specifically in the areas of delivery system and payment reform. Prior to that, she served as principal of her own health policy consulting firm and in state government. Throughout these roles, she has directed numerous research and consulting projects across the population health spectrum – health insurance coverage, population segmentation/data analytics, delivery system design, health system financing and payment models, safety net provider issues and health equity.

Johnson holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an M.A. in Biomedical Ethics from the University of Virginia.