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Lisa Rosenberger

Pronouns: She/Her

Principal Research Director
Health Care Evaluation
Lisa has extensive qualitative research experience on state and federal programs.

Lisa is a principal research director at NORC. Her work focuses on Medicaid, managed care, long-term services and supports (LTSS), historically underserved populations, health care delivery and payment reform, and access to care.

She currently serves as the project director on the Financial Alignment Initiative Operation Support Contract (FAI) for CMS. Lisa designed and oversaw the readiness review process to conduct desk and on-site reviews of all managed care plans participating in the Demonstration across the country. Further, she oversees all ongoing monitoring activities for the FAI, including defining, collecting and analyzing data on performance and quality measures; conducting performance measure validation; administering a CAHPS survey; and baseline and benchmarking work to determine payments. Lisa has also served as project director and subject matter expert providing technical assistance and learning and diffusion support to various models out of the CMS Innovation Center, including Direct Contracting (DC), Kidney Care Choices (KCC), Integrated Care for Kids (InCK), Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM), and Community Access to Rural Health Transformation (CHART).

Further, Lisa is a skilled qualitative researcher, leading projects that include focus groups and in-depth interviews with beneficiaries, providers and other stakeholders. She has conducted qualitative research to assess aspects of a number of states’ Medicaid programs, including Kentucky, Illinois and California, as well studies that examined a cross section of states. She has also conducted work for CMS to assess the value of the external quality review (EQR) process to states.

Prior to coming to NORC, Lisa worked in clinical research at the Children’s National Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Education

MPH

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

BA

Pennsylvania State University

Project Contributions

CMS Financial Alignment Initiative

Monitoring programs to control costs and align care for dually eligible individuals

Client:

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic & Treatment (EPSDT)

Assessing and analyzing state availability, delivery, and provision of EPSDT benefit services

Client:

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act Evaluation

Evaluating behavioral health-related programs funded by Illinois cannabis tax revenue

Client:

Division of Mental Health Services (DMH) within the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS)

Increasing Substance Use Provider Capacity (Illinois SUPPORT)

Examining the prevalence of opioid use disorder among Medicaid beneficiaries and barriers to care

Client:

University of Illinois Chicago

Kentucky HEALTH Medicaid 1115 Waiver Evaluation

Collecting data to assess the impact of Medicaid rule changes

Client:

Commonwealth of Kentucky

Publications

Research Library & Findings