Bridgette Wiefling, M.D., Former Executive VP, Rochester, NY
I met Meryl Price when she provided Technical Assistance (TA) to the Fingerlakes Performing Provider System (FLPPS) and Rochester General Hospital in Rochester New York. HPM played a key role in supporting our DSRIP application and subsequent projects related to integration within our hospital system. Meryl was involved in providing TA for multiple DSRIP demonstration projects both in New York and in Massachusetts; she understood the regulatory issues, the landscape and integrated care management design across the continuum.
Meryl brings many valuable characteristics as a team member on projects that support vulnerable populations. First, she is highly knowledgeable about Medicaid, policy, and program design. Second, HPM hits the ground running without support, whether the HPM team is working with clinicians, leadership, staff, or management.
HPM brought a rare level of enthusiasm to all of the projects they worked on. The firm has a level of experience that allows Meryl and her team to provide senior level support from the outset of a wide variety of efforts, given their enthusiasm and desire to produce positive results. Finally, I know I can count on Meryl and HPM to deliver. The firm is highly reliable and always goes the extra mile.
RFP Consulting Firm: Chief Executive Officer
The HPM Team brings a unique combination of passion and expertise to the development and improvement of integrated care management programs and to each and every project and partnership in which she participates. Meryl is a brilliant strategist with in-depth knowledge of health care delivery systems. She offers creative solutions and innovative thinking to support clients in achieving their strategic and operational goals. HPM’s a unique combination of expertise and passion for serving vulnerable populations through integrated care management programs shows in each and every project and partnership in which she participates.
Former Executive Director, CHRT, Ann Arbor, MI
Health Policy Matters has worked with us on major projects to provide technical assistance and consulting to a Midwestern state Medicaid department to review and recommend changes to the Medicaid Long Term Care Services and Supports (LTSS) programs. Meryl Price, President of HPM, has offered a depth and breadth of knowledge that has been invaluable in multiple integrated, LTSS engagements.
HPM provided: significant insights about: relevant FIDA and MMP demonstrations nationally; key stakeholder information sessions; and strategic insights to help guide the project plan and deliverables for a series of major LTSS projects related to care management for the State.
Meryl understands the complex financial and regulatory designs of Medicaid programs. As a result, HPM’s knowledge and work product have informed State leaders to help significantly advance their work. Meryl has high standards of excellence and her work products have made an enormous contribution to the State.
Kip Piper, CEO, Washington D.C.
Meryl Price and the Health Policy Matters (HPM) team are exceptional. They are top experts in health care’s most challenging areas – notably, integrated Medicaid and Medicare care management delivery including medical care, LTSS, behavioral health care and social supports.
Health Policy Matters offers a rare team of consultants. They combine phenomenal technical expertise and real-world, senior-level experience with extraordinary energy and commitment to clients and the populations those clients serve. With HPM there is no bait-and-switch with junior, inexperienced staff or general “rinse and repeat” advice given to others. Clients get a savvy, senior team willing and able to provide discreet, on-point advice and tailored, actionable support to clients.
David Waters, Chief Executive Officer, Boston MA
Health Policy Matters assisted Community Servings, a community-based provider of Medically Tailored Meals. Meryl Price enthusiastically played a leadership role in developing a strategy, program design and negotiated and executed contracts on our behalf. HPM is skilled at bringing together MCOs and community-based organizations across sectors to deliver integrated social care services. Meryl negotiated a groundbreaking contract with a Medicare Advantage plan and over $3 million in contracts with Massachusetts ACOs, creating new cross-sector relationships that changed the way our CBO did business. This was groundbreaking.