Jared Augenstein
Jared Augenstein is a senior managing director with Manatt Health, an interdisciplinary policy and business advisory practice of Manatt. He provides strategic business advice, policy design and analysis as well as project management to health care providers, health tech companies, state and local governments, foundations, life sciences companies, and other health care organizations. Jared’s primary areas of focus are advising private- and public-sector clients on health technology, telehealth, artificial and augmented intelligence, care model design and transformation, federal and state health policy trends, and provider markets.
Jared has extensive experience in the digital health space, regularly advising health systems, policymakers, innovators and investors on digital health and virtual care strategy, remote monitoring, AI, implementation, operations, and policy. Jared has published extensively on a range of topics related to digital transformation, telemedicine and health system strategy, including coauthorships with the American Medical Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Commonwealth Fund, Health Affairs and others.
Representative engagements include advising many of the nation’s leading health systems on strategic planning and digital transformation, supporting states in designing and implementing telehealth coverage and reimbursement policies, counseling emerging companies on go-to-market and business model strategies, advising a range of stakeholders on digital health policy issues, and partnering with foundations and nonprofit organizations to advance their impact.
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Jared Augenstein
Jared Augenstein is a senior managing director with Manatt Health, an interdisciplinary policy and business advisory practice of Manatt. He provides strategic business advice, policy design and analysis as well as project management to health care providers, health tech companies, state and local governments, foundations, life sciences companies, and other health care organizations. Jared’s primary areas of focus are advising private- and public-sector clients on health technology, telehealth, artificial and augmented intelligence, care model design and transformation, federal and state health policy trends, and provider markets.
Jared has extensive experience in the digital health space, regularly advising health systems, policymakers, innovators and investors on digital health and virtual care strategy, remote monitoring, AI, implementation, operations, and policy. Jared has published extensively on a range of topics related to digital transformation, telemedicine and health system strategy, including coauthorships with the American Medical Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Commonwealth Fund, Health Affairs and others.
Representative engagements include advising many of the nation’s leading health systems on strategic planning and digital transformation, supporting states in designing and implementing telehealth coverage and reimbursement policies, counseling emerging companies on go-to-market and business model strategies, advising a range of stakeholders on digital health policy issues, and partnering with foundations and nonprofit organizations to advance their impact.
Education
Yale University, M.P.H., Health Policy and Management, 2012
Yale University, M.A., International and Development Economics, 2012
Vassar College, B.A., Science, Technology and Society, with honors, 2010
Accomplishments
Speaker, “Advocacy Insights: The current and future landscape of health care AI policy,” American Medical Association, May 13, 2025
Speaker, “2025 AI Topics, Tools, and Use Cases for Serious Illness Care,” Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, May 2025.
Speaker, “From a Patchwork to a Quilt – Emerging AI Policy Trends,” Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, May 2, 2025.
Speaker, “,” Community Healthcare Association of New York State, October, 2023.
Moderator, “Delivering on Digitally Enabled Care – Progress and Potential” HLTH 2023, October 9, 2023.
Speaker, “,” AMA Advocacy Insights Webinar, September 19, 2023.
Speaker, “Telehealth and the End of the Public Health Emergency: Changes to Patient Access,” NYHealth Foundation, August 17, 2023.
Speaker, “Scaling Across 50 States – Strategic and Legal Considerations for Entrepreneurs,” ATA2023 Annual Conference & Expo, American Telemedicine Association, March 6, 2023.
Speaker, “Telehealth Integration in Academic Health Systems: Lessons from the AAMC/Manatt Telehealth Collaborative,” ATA2023 Annual Conference & Expo, American Telemedicine Association, March 6, 2023.
Speaker, “AMA Future of Health: Coding, Coverage, and Payment for Digitally Enabled Care,” ATA2023 Annual Conference & Expo, American Telemedicine Association, March 5, 2023.
Moderator, “Telehealth: Advancing policies to ensure high-quality care,” American Medical Association State Advocacy Summit, January 13, 2023.
Moderator, “AMA Panel: Closing the Digital Health Disconnect: A Blueprint for Optimizing Digitally Enabled Care,” HLTH 2022, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 15, 2022.
Speaker, “Digital Innovation for Health and Social Care in the U.S.: The Current and Future State,” Using Education to Prepare the NHS and Social Care Workforce to Deliver the Digital Future, Yale Global Health Leadership Initiative, July 11, 2022.
Panelist, “Telemental Health Care Among Medicaid Enrollees,” Network for Excellence in Health Innovation, June 22, 2022.
Speaker, “Accelerating Behavioral Health Integration Through Telehealth,” American Medical Association, June 21, 2022.
Panelist, “Telehealth Integration in Academic Health Systems: Lessons from the AAMC/Manatt Telehealth Collaborative,” ATA 2022 Annual Conference and Expo, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1, 2022.
Moderator, “A Private Sector Perspective,” Empowering Telehealth Solutions in the APEC Region Webinar, Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation, March 8, 2022.
Moderator, “Separating the Signal From the Noise—Lessons From COVID-19’s Impact on Health Care Innovation,” Digital Medicine Conference, NODE.Health, December 7, 2021.
Speaker, “New Players in Telehealth: Payment Methodologies and Issues for Telehealth,” Illinois Telehealth Initiative, November 10, 2021.
Speaker, “Provider and Payer Perspectives on Telehealth Post-Pandemic,” National Conference of State Legislatures, July 21, 2021.
Moderator, “Return on Health: Moving Beyond Dollars and Cents in Realizing the Value of Virtual Care,” ATA2021 Annual Conference & Expo, June 22, 2021.
Speaker, “Monthly Policy Briefing – Measuring the Value of Digital Health,” eHealth Initiative, June 15, 2021.
Moderator, “Advancing Telehealth for Patients and Physicians: Conversation With Thought Leaders,” American Medical Association State Advocacy Summit, January 8, 2021.
Speaker, “How and Why to Grow Telehealth In Your Practice,” AAFP webinar, December 4, 2020.
Speaker, “Developed Markets: US Market Entry,” ANDHealth Masterclass 2020: ACCELERATE in Digital Health, November 13, 2020.
Panelist, “Access to Health Services Leveraging Virtual Care,” Responding to COVID-19 and Beyond: Demo Day for Medicaid Innovation, Adaptation Health, June 10, 2020.
Speaker, “Telehealth Deployment in Pharma,” the Partnership for a Connected Illinois 2019 Telehealth Law and Policy Forum, Chicago, September 5, 2019.
Speaker, “International Telehealth and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Legal Considerations,” U.S. Cooperative for International Patient Programs, July 19, 2018.
Speaker, “Frontiers of Healthcare Technology: The Role of Telemedicine and Patient-Centered Innovation,” 14th Annual Yale Healthcare Conference, New Haven, Connecticut, April 13, 2018.
Leader in Technology, “Excellence in Client Service” category, Consulting Magazine, 2024
Rising Star, Consulting Magazine, 2023
Health Care & Well-being Rising Star, Consulting Magazine, 2023
Quoted, “The states are stepping up on health AI regulation,” American Medical Association, June 9, 2025.
Quoted, “How states are taking the lead on AI in health care,” Chief Healthcare Executive, June 3, 2025.
Quoted, “Why AI Legislation has Stalled at the State Level,” Modern Healthcare, April 4, 2025.
Quoted, “Trump AI EO Repeal Fallout: Stakeholders Shift Focus to States, Startup Shuts Down,” InsideHealthPolicy, January 23, 2025.
Quoted, “$10.1 Billion Pours into Digital Health, but Late-Stage Ventures Feel the Pinch,” PYMNTS, January 17, 2025.
Quoted, “Physical therapy startup Sword Health shifts to a novel way of getting paid, “ EndPoints News, September 16, 2024.
Co-author, “Remote Physiologic Monitoring Use Among Medicaid Population Increased, 2019–21,” Health Affairs, May 2024.
Co-author, “Manatt Health: Health AI Policy Tracker,” an AI toolkit prepared for Manatt on Health, April 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, “Manatt Health: State Health AI Policy Tracker,” an AI toolkit prepared for Manatt on Health, April 2024.
Featured, “Consulting Magazine Announces 2024 Leaders in Technology,” Consulting Magazine, March 18, 2024.
Featured, “Randi Seigel and Jared Augenstein on the CMS 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule,” The Compliance & Ethics Blogs, January 23, 2024.
Co-author, “Future of Health: Imperatives for advancing data sharing to support digitally enabled care,” an issue brief prepared in collaboration white paper prepared in collaboration with The American Medical Association, January 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, "Future of Health: Imperatives for advancing data sharing to support digitally enabled care," American Medical Association, December 2023.
Co-author, “CMS publishes 2024 proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule,” Compliance Today, October 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, “Future of Health: Commercial Payer Coverage for Digital Medicine Codes,” American Medical Association, August 2023.
Quoted, “The doctor won’t Zoom with you now: The telehealth frenzy is over,” MarketWatch, May 6, 2023.
Quoted, “Telehealth, PBM reform legislation among health care issues pending in DC,” InsuranceNewsNet, April 24, 2023.
Quoted, “How Telehealth Policy is Evolving at the State Level,” mHealthIntelligence, March 9, 2023.
Co-author, “Telehealth Is Effectively Augmenting Traditional Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs,” NABH Education and Research Foundation, February 2023.
Co-author, “Closing the Digital Health Disconnect: A Blueprint for Optimizing Digitally Enabled Care,” American Medical Association, November 2022.
Co-author, “Accelerating and Enhancing Behavioral Health Integration Through Digitally Enabled Care: Opportunities and Challenges,” American Medical Association, February 2022.
Quoted, “Insurers test the waters with 'telebehavioral' health platforms,” Modern Healthcare, December 29, 2021.
Interviewed, “Rethinking Telehealth's Role in Treating Addiction,” Tradeoffs, November 28, 2021.
Quoted, “Telehealth a lifeline for patients with substance-use disorders,” American Medical Association, November 16, 2021.
Featured, “Report Identifies Keys to Telehealth Success in Academic Health Systems,” Healthcare Innovation, August 25, 2021.
Co-author, “Sustaining Telehealth Success: Integration Imperatives for Academic Health Systems,” Association of American Medical Colleges, July 2021.
Co-author, “How to Measure the Value of Virtual Health Care,” Harvard Business Review, June 24, 2021.
Quoted, “States’ Post-PHE Telehealth Laws Could Provide Roadmap For Congress,” InsideHealthPolicy, June 2, 2021.
Co-author, “Return on Health: Moving Beyond Dollars and Cents in Realizing the Value of Virtual Care,” American Medical Association, May 2021.
Co-author, “Audio Telehealth Services Post-Pandemic—An Update on Emerging Policy Trends,” RamaOnHealthcare, February 16, 2021.
Co-author, “A Toolkit for Building and Growing a Sustainable Telehealth Program for Your Practice,” American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), September 2020.
Interviewed, “Jared Augenstein on the Telehealth Boom and Reimbursement Trends for Digital Health,” Precision Insights Podcast, August 19, 2020.
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, “Transforming Primary Healthcare for Women—Part 1: A Framework for Addressing Gaps and Barriers,” The Commonwealth Fund, July 16, 2020.
Co-author, “Transforming Primary Healthcare for Women—Part 2: The Path Forward,” The Commonwealth Fund, July 16, 2020.
Author, “Opportunities To Expand Telehealth Use Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic,” Health Affairs, March 16, 2020.
Co-author, “Industry Voices—4 lessons to develop and implement a system telehealth strategy,” FierceHealthcare, July 24, 2019.
Cited, “Telehealth: A Path to Virtual Integrated Care,” American Hospital Association Center for Health Innovation, February 2019.
Co-author, “Emerging Issues in Medicaid Payment and Delivery Reform: Observations from New York’s DSRIP Implementation,” The Commonwealth Fund, April 2016.
Co-author, "Vaccine Research and Development," RethinkHIV: Smarter Ways to Invest in Ending HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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