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Kaylee O’Connor

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Senior Manager

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  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH), Health Policy, 2017

    University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., International Development, 2015

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Kaylee O’Connor is a senior manager with Manatt Health, an interdisciplinary policy and business advisory practice of Manatt. Kaylee provides policy analysis and development, strategic advice, program implementation support, and project management to a wide array of clients, including federal and state agencies, foundations, health plans, and other health care stakeholders. In particular, Kaylee has extensive experience working with states—such as Maryland, New Hampshire and Virginia—on various aspects of their Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) programs, including payment and delivery system transformation, program redesign and re-procurement, and Medicaid waiver development and negotiations. Kaylee also helps clients understand the implications of legislative and regulatory policies and provides creative solutions around Medicaid expansion, coverage policies, children’s health and social determinants of health, among others.

Prior to joining Manatt, Kaylee was a research consultant and senior research analyst at the Lewin Group, where she worked with state Medicaid agencies and Medicaid managed care organizations to ensure compliance with the Medicaid and CHIP Managed Care Final Rule and to provide high-quality services to Medicaid members. Using a variety of research methodologies and keen statistical insights, Kaylee also developed quality improvement strategies and evaluated federal payment and service delivery models.

While in graduate school, Kaylee worked as a health policy student analyst for the Maryland Department of Health, supporting the renewal of the state’s Section 1115 waiver and spearheading an initiative to ensure continuity of health coverage for justice-involved populations.

Speaking Engagements

Speaking Engagements

Presenter, “Omnibus Unwinding Provisions and Implications for States,” National Governors Association, January 19, 2023.

Presenter, “Improving Ex Parte Rates to Support Unwinding,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies, November 29, 2022.

Presenter, “Unwinding of the Public Health Emergency: What’s Next for States,” National Governors Association, November 3, 2022.

Presenter, “Unwinding of the Public Health Emergency: What’s Next for States,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies, November 1, 2022.

Publications

Publications

Co-author, “State Spotlight: California’s Landmark Coverage Expansion for Immigrant Populations,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, November 2022.

Co-author, “State Strategies to Improve Maternal Health and Promote Health Equity Compendium,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, October 2022.

Co-author, “Protecting Coverage for Postpartum Individuals at the End of the Public Health Emergency,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, September 2022.

Co-author, “Leveraging Section 1902(e)(14) Waiver Authority Amid Unwinding,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, June 2022.

Co-author, “Supporting Health Equity and Affordable Health Coverage for Immigrant Populations: CHIP Coverage Option for Pregnant Immigrants and their Children,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, January 2022.

Co-author, “Supporting Health Equity and Affordable Health Coverage for Immigrant Populations: State-Funded Affordable Coverage Programs for Immigrants,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, October 2021.

Co-author, “The American Rescue Plan Act’s State Option to Extend Postpartum Coverage,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies, April 2021.

Co-author, “Finishing the Job of Medicaid Expansion,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, January 28, 2021.

Co-author, “State Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Advance Health Equity,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, November 2020.

Co-author, “Maintaining Medicaid and CHIP Coverage Amid Postal Delays and Housing Displacements,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies, September 18, 2020.

Co-author, “Keeping Medicaid’s Promise: Strengthening Access to Services for Children With Special Healthcare Needs,” The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, October 1, 2019.

Co-author, “Medicaid Managed Care Rate Setting and Payment Innovation Study,” The Hilltop Institute at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, June 19, 2018.



Kaylee's Articles

  • 10.21.22

    State Strategies to Improve Maternal Health and Promote Health Equity ...

    Despite new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) establishing four out of five pregnancy-related deaths as preventable, ...



  • 09.15.22

    Protecting Coverage for Postpartum Individuals at the End of the ...

    For more than two years, states have maintained coverage of their Medicaid enrollees as a condition of receiving enhanced federal Medicaid funding ...



  • 06.21.22

    Leveraging Section 1902(e)(14) Waiver Authority Amid Unwinding

    The Medicaid continuous coverage requirement enacted by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act prohibits states from disenrolling individuals ...



  • 01.10.22

    CHIP Coverage Option for Pregnant Immigrants and Their Children

    Under federal regulations, states may provide pregnancy-related care to targeted low-income children from conception to birth through the ...



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Kaylee's Newsletters

  • 06.21.22

    Leveraging Section 1902(e)(14) Waiver Authority Amid Unwinding

    States are required to maintain enrollment for their Medicaid enrollees through the end of the public health emergency as a condition of receiving ...

  • 11.03.21

    Supporting Health Equity: State-Funded Affordable Coverage Programs ...

    The crisis in immigrant health coverage has been both highlighted and exacerbated by the recent pandemic.

  • 05.03.21

    The American Rescue Plan Act’s State Option to Extend Postpartum ...

    The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 establishes a new state option to extend Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage for ...

  • 12.08.20

    State Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Advance Health Equity

    The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted long-standing health inequities which have resulted in an increased risk of sickness and death for people of ...

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