As a trained public health professional with a wide range of industry experience, Kate jumps into every project with enthusiasm and curiosity. Her history with quality-based payment programs and providers is beneficial for her clients as they pursue enhanced managed care agreements and innovative payment models. Working within market research, payer organizations, and safety net hospitals over the last several years, Kate has directly impacted patient lives by increasing access to care, improving quality, and broadening the availability of community-based programs. Having seen the potential for organizations to increase savings while improving patient outcomes, she has developed a passion for guiding clients to realize both.
Before joining ECG, Kate was a member of Cigna’s Managed Care Leadership Development Program, where she rotated through a variety of roles in the Government Business Division. Most notably, she collaborated with a range of stakeholders from the payer’s actuarial, sales, sales effectiveness, and data and analytics units to create a performance dashboard for evaluating Medicare Supplement broker performance to inform the payer’s contractual broker relationships. In addition, Kate led the Stars and Risk Adjustment Team within Georgia to increase a plan’s ratings for select CMS HEDIS quality measures to 5 stars. Ultimately, this work improved the plan’s overall Star Rating to a 4, leading to enhanced benefits for the plan’s 25,000 covered lives by way of a 5% revenue bonus for the market.
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Master of Public Health
Wake Forest University
Bachelor of Science in Biology
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