Meredith works on several health care program initiatives to enhance state and federal organization’s capacity to advance critical design, implementation, and evaluation efforts. Meredith is a senior research director at NORC with over fourteen years of experience leading projects and health care programs. Her work focuses on health care policy, operations and value-based payment models in Medicaid and Medicare.

Meredith currently serves as a lead for technical assistance to the CMS Innovation Center for the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM)’s health equity plans and support to other models including States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD), and Kidney Care Choice (KCC). She is the project director for in-depth health equity partner interviews on behalf of Families USA to inform strategic efforts. She has also served as a lead for health care program and policy analysis for the CMS Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services’ Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT), Washington State’s Maternity Episode of Care, and New Mexico Legislative Health and Human Services Committee’s Feasibility Assessment of Global Budget for Rural Hospitals.

Prior to NORC, she served as the primary care quality deputy director at the State of Tennessee, Division of TennCare where she oversaw program strategy and implementation for the Medicaid Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program. Meredith also served as a policy analyst for Henry Ford Health System and Georgians for a Healthy Future, a consumer health and advocacy organization. In these roles, she provided research and analysis on public and private health insurance, health system reform, public health proposed laws, policies, and regulations. She was instrumental in providing policy solutions to guide decision making for legislators, state officials and health system leaders.