Director
Margaret E. Johnson, M.B.A., is a Director at L&M with over 25 years of experience in federal and state health care policy, research, and management. Ms. Johnson brings extensive experience conducting primary research data collection, having led and analyzed hundreds of key informant interviews and focus groups with state health officials, providers, payers, consumers, and employers about the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Ms. Johnson is experienced in analyzing and reporting findings using qualitative methods, designing and writing case studies, leading site visits, conducting environmental scans, and providing training and technical assistance. Her policy areas of expertise include a range of topics including the intersection of public benefits in the U.S., especially for older adults; issues of access in Medicare, Medicaid and Marketplace populations; and innovations in Medicare and Medicaid payment policy.
In addition to her qualitative and policy-focused background, Ms. Johnson has extensive experience in leading projects for both Federal and commercial clients. Most recently, she has served as the Project Director for a portfolio of National Council on Aging (NCOA) projects focused on the feasibility of streamlining benefits enrollment for older adults into key public benefits and has published case studies documenting state approaches to streamlining enrollment into Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs). She also provided project management oversight and task leadership for the Center of Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health aimed at improving health care access and quality for all CMS priority populations, and she leads a project assessing the Improvement Activities in the current portfolio of CMS Alternative Payment Models based on the statutory and regulatory definitions and criteria for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance. Currently, Ms. Johnson also leads the evaluation of technical assistance activities provided under the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Rural Quality Improvement Technical Assistance (RQITA) program.
Before joining L&M, Ms. Johnson held senior management positions in a national home care and infusion/specialty pharmacy company where she worked extensively in health care operations and management; just prior to that, she spent several years working in health policy research, focused primarily on federal health programs.
Ms. Johnson holds a Master of Business Administration in Health Administration from the University of Colorado.
