Meredith Yinger

Meredith offers a wide range of experience in health care policy, regulatory analysis, and advocacy, particularly from a provider perspective. With a strong focus on value-based care, provider payment, and coverage policy in Medicare, Medicaid, and the commercial market, she has a proven track record of building consensus across stakeholders to successfully influence federal policy.

Currently, Meredith serves as Senior Policy Director at Healthsperien advising a variety of clients. Prior to this, Meredith worked at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) leading payment policy and implementation for the Making Care Primary model. During her time at CMMI, Meredith also directed multi-payer alignment efforts in two states, partnering with state Medicaid agencies and health insurance companies to facilitate primary care transformation, and she contributed to the development of new Advanced Primary Care Management codes in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. Meredith previously served as Senior Manager of Federal Policy at the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), where she oversaw federal regulatory advocacy efforts and led the development of the AAFP’s federal policy agenda. In her role at the AAFP, as well as Health Policy Analyst at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Meredith successfully developed and executed strategic advocacy campaigns to secure Medicare physician payment improvements for primary care physicians and obstetrician-gynecologists.

Meredith’s work often intersects with health care innovation and advocacy and she is dedicated to advancing policies that improve health care access and quality for everyone.

Meredith has a Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Management from Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh.