Jacqueline Marks Smith

Jacqueline Marks Smith is a senior manager with Manatt Health, an interdisciplinary policy and business advisory practice of Manatt. She provides policy analysis, strategic business advice, and project management to a variety of stakeholders including states, health care providers, foundations and non-profit organizations, among others.

Jacqueline is an expert in federal and state telehealth policy, regularly advising state Medicaid programs on telehealth coverage and payment policy design. Jacqueline also works with provider organizations and foundations to support telehealth policy change aimed at ensuring equitable access to care for all individuals.

In addition, Jacqueline has extensive experience providing policy analysis and advocacy support to women’s health providers and non-profit organizations. She also assists academic medical centers, health systems, and safety net hospitals with strategic planning and implementation support related to IT and digital health.

Prior to joining Manatt, Jacqueline was a business intelligence analyst with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, where she was responsible for aggregating and analyzing clinical and financial data from more than 700 health centers nationwide. While working toward her graduate degree in health policy and management, Jacqueline was an intern in the Reproductive Health Department of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Jacqueline Marks Smith

Jacqueline Marks Smith is a senior manager with Manatt Health, an interdisciplinary policy and business advisory practice of Manatt. She provides policy analysis, strategic business advice, and project management to a variety of stakeholders including states, health care providers, foundations and non-profit organizations, among others.

Jacqueline is an expert in federal and state telehealth policy, regularly advising state Medicaid programs on telehealth coverage and payment policy design. Jacqueline also works with provider organizations and foundations to support telehealth policy change aimed at ensuring equitable access to care for all individuals.

In addition, Jacqueline has extensive experience providing policy analysis and advocacy support to women’s health providers and non-profit organizations. She also assists academic medical centers, health systems, and safety net hospitals with strategic planning and implementation support related to IT and digital health.

Prior to joining Manatt, Jacqueline was a business intelligence analyst with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, where she was responsible for aggregating and analyzing clinical and financial data from more than 700 health centers nationwide. While working toward her graduate degree in health policy and management, Jacqueline was an intern in the Reproductive Health Department of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

Education

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Master of Science in Public Health, Health Policy and Management, 2012

The George Washington University, B.A., International Affairs (Global Public Health Concentration), 2009

Accomplishments

Panelist, “Telehealth: Advancing policies to ensure high-quality care,” American Medical Association State Advocacy Summit, January 13, 2023.

Speaker, “Navigating Telehealth Reimbursement Policy Changes in the Time of COVID,” FierceHealthcare Webinar, May 13, 2020.

“Ethics Matter: Elements of Informed Consent and the Process of Obtaining It,” Geneva Medical Foundation for Education and Research Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, June 13-17, 2011.


Quoted, “Congress' Dash For Telehealth Extensions: 4 Things To Know,” Law360, November 19, 2024.

Co-author, “Tracking Ongoing Federal and State Telehealth Policy Changes,” a 50 State Survey prepared for Manatt on Health, April 5, 2024.

Co-author, "State Telehealth Policy Trends: 2023 Year in Review," a white paper written in collaboration with the American Medical Association, December 2023.

Co-author, “Assessing the Impact of Medicaid Telehealth Policy Change on Equitable Access to Telehealth Services in North Carolina State Health Policy Leadership Medicaid,” Milbank Memorial Fund, September 2023.

Co-author, “Closing the Digital Health Disconnect: A Blueprint for Optimizing Digitally Enabled Care,” American Medical Association, November 2022.

Quoted, “Telehealth Companies Want Congress to Make Pandemic Expansion of Their Services Permanent,” TIME, March 30, 2022.

Quoted, “On the second anniversary of the pandemic, here’s why it’s so hard to cancel COVID emergency powers,” MarketWatch, March 9, 2022.

Co-author, “Return on Health: Moving Beyond Dollars and Cents in Realizing the Value of Virtual Care,” American Medical Association, May 2021.

Co-author, “A Primer on the Dual Eligible Population in Massachusetts,” Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, March 29, 2021.

Co-author, “Audio Telehealth Services Post-Pandemic—An Update on Emerging Policy Trends,” RamaOnHealthcare, February 16, 2021.

Co-author, “Expanding Access to Behavioral Health Care in Massachusetts through Telehealth: Sustaining Progress Post-Pandemic,” Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, July 14, 2020.

Co-author, “Medicaid Family Planning Programs:  Six Years Post-ACA Implementation,” The Kaiser Family Foundation, April 2017. Co-author, “Trends and Variation in LARC Use among Planned Parenthood Affiliates,” 2014 North American Forum on Family Planning, November 2014.

Co-author, “Male Reproductive Health Services: Trends from Planned Parenthood Health Centers,” Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, June 14, 2014.

Co-author, “Five-Year Trends in Medication Abortion: A View from Planned Parenthood,” NAF Conference, April 2014.

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