Melanie Bella
Head of Partnerships and Policy, Cityblock Health
Melanie Bella is head of partnerships and policy at Cityblock Health, a value-based provider for low-income populations with complex needs, focusing on Medicaid and dually eligible beneficiaries (Medicaid and Medicare). Bella also is chair of the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), a non-partisan agency that advises and makes recommendations to Congress, the secretary of Health and Human Services, and the states. Before Cityblock, she served as the first director of the Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, leading the design and launch of demonstrations testing delivery system and payment models for dually eligible beneficiaries. Earlier, Bella was senior vice president for policy and operations at the Center for Health Care Strategies and Medicaid director for the state of Indiana.
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Modern medicine, with its prescriptive clinical guidelines, electronic health records, time pressures, and reimbursement complexities, too often leaves both patients and their...