To Medicaid Health Plans of America’s new lobbyist, managed care is the ‘way of the future’

Fierce Healthcare January 16, 2018
Leslie Small

One way that Medicaid managed care plans can better serve enrollees is to improve the integration of physical and behavioral health services.

For Shannon Attanasio, the road to becoming Medicaid Health Plans of America’s newest lobbyist started somewhere around 2008, when she was canvassing for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Again and again, she tells FierceHealthcare, the people she encountered underscored how important healthcare is as both a political issue and in people’s lives.

“That’s always the No. 1 on thing on folks’ minds—they want to have coverage, but they want to be able to use that coverage and they want to be able to afford it,” she says.

Those experiences drove Attanasio to a career path that most...

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