HPM senior-level experts work with a range of client organizations, including CalAIM providers, that deliver or manage care to underserved, high-risk populations. Our team includes experts in integrated care management design, workflow analysis and redesign, financial analysis, data analysis, partnership building across sectors and other functions that support care delivery, financing of care and value based payment, analytics, and project management. We have participated in numerous CalAIM projects since the outset of the demonstration.
Our key skills to serve vulnerable populations, including significant experience with CalAIM providers, includes:
Meryl brings 30+ years of public and private to support clients in transforming care management programs and quality for Medicaid and dually eligible populations. CalAIM and clients nationally include CBOs, BH organizations including justice involved populations), home health organizations, MMCOs, ACOs, MA plans, FQHCs, BH organizations, LTSS organizations, government agencies, and foundations.
Meryl’s key areas of expertise include:
Kelvin has 28 years of experience in healthcare services delivered with an emphasis on providing technical assistance regarding financial management and business operations. Kelvin supports physician organizations, hospitals, health systems, and behavioral health organizations as well as MCOs and ACOs. He is an experienced and effective leader and coach who helps clients develop synergies between physician and hospital organizations among others. In addition to creating financial models and analytic tools to perform complex analysis, Kelvin creates value-based models that transform reimbursement methods for providers and others.
Kelvin’s critical skills include:
Naomi Weinstein has spent over 30 years working to ensure high-quality, accessible, and impactful health care services are available to all, with a particular interest in substance use and mental health for low-income populations. Her experience includes more than two decades working in direct care settings with responsibilities ranging from policy development to technical assistance, from program design to program operations, and from training to the creation of clinical tools and resources for providers. Naomi has worked in hospital, FQHC, provider association and research and evaluation settings. Together, these experiences have provided Naomi with an understanding of how programs work on-the-ground, and what policies and structures are needed to support the creation and maintenance of successful health care programs.
Naomi’s work has included both local and national projects, focusing especially in New York, California, and Texas, working to support individuals who are receiving treatment for addiction and mental health including justice involved individuals. Throughout all of these experiences, Naomi’s priority remains improving quality and care, cross-system coordination, and access.
After nearly 15 years in state government, Suzanne founded State Health Partners to bring innovation and capacity-building to Medicaid programs—especially those serving underserved communities. She collaborates with providers, community-based organizations, states, foundations, and contractors to expand coverage, improve complex care delivery, and support stakeholder engagement. Suzanne specializes in connecting Medicaid policy, managed care operations, and community-based solutions to make care more accessible and outcomes. Her recent work includes training correctional staff on Medicaid and reentry planning, expanding children’s access to mobile vision services, and improving birth outcomes through doula and home visiting programs.
Molly Dean is passionate about helping community-based organizations navigate and influence Medicaid operations and policy to better serve people with complex health and social needs. Drawing on deep experience, Molly brings practical expertise in program design, implementation, and operations. She has led stakeholder engagement efforts across sectors, negotiated major federal waivers, and shaped statewide initiatives to improve access to behavioral health and long-term services and supports. At State Health Partners, Molly partners with CBOs to turn policy into practice—whether through simplifying Medicaid enrollment, improving care transitions, or expanding behavioral health access. Her previous roles include Senior Policy Advisor to the Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources and Chief of Staff at a Medicaid Behavioral Health plan.
Karen Kimsey brings nearly 30 years of experience across the public and private health care sectors, including four years as Virginia’s Medicaid Director. While in state leadership, she helped transform the agency’s internal culture, steered operations through the COVID-19 pandemic, and led the launch of major initiatives such as Virginia’s managed long-term services and supports program, expanded addiction treatment benefits, and system redesigns in behavioral health and developmental disabilities.
Karen is a trusted expert in Medicaid policy, waivers, and program design, and she uses that knowledge to help states and communities expand access to care—especially for people with serious mental illness, disabilities, older adults, and children. She is deeply committed to working alongside community partners to design programs that reflect local needs and lift up underrepresented voices.