She focuses on the impacts related to health insurance market reforms, public coverage expansion, and value-based payment initiatives. She applies her background in public health and health policy to a broad range of clients.

Prior to joining Avalere, Amanda was the program manager of Payment Programs, where she led Quality Payment Program education efforts and developed specialty-specific alternative payment models to support neurologists’ transition to value-based care. Additionally, she has worked as a qualitative researcher at the University of Minnesota’s State Health Access Data Assistance Center and the Urban Institute, where she conducted large-scale federal research and program evaluations of payment and delivery system reforms in the Medicaid program.

Amanda earned a B.A. in political science from UC Santa Barbara and an M.P.H. from the George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health.