Christine H. Nye

Christine H. Nye Senior Fellow

Health Care Research

M.S.S.W., University of Wisconsin
B.A., The Johns Hopkins University

Christine H. Nye is a Senior Fellow in the Health Care Research department. She leads NORC's Medicaid research activities and is involved in the health information technology, quality, and payment policy areas. Nye's expertise is in health policy, program administration, and qualitative program evaluation.

Nye has more than 30 years of health policy and program administration experience, and has led many nationally recognized programs -- Medicaid, Medicare Advantage Plans, pharmacy benefit management, health information technology, governmental information technology systems, and long-term services and support programs. Throughout her career, Nye has led highly complex health policy analysis and development efforts at all levels of government-- federal, state and local -- to improve both the quality and delivery of health care services to vulnerable populations.

Prior to joining NORC, Nye was the health information technology coordinator for Florida where she led the state's policy and planning efforts. She served as HCFA Medicaid Bureau director, implementing the drug rebate program, significant nation-wide expansions in Medicaid benefits and eligibility and growth of managed care and community based long term services and support programs and was the Wisconsin Medicaid program director when the program was rated as the nation's most efficiently run. Nye held senior positions in the private sector in managed care, pharmacy benefits management, aging services, long-term care, and information management systems.

Representative Projects

Financial Alignment Initiative Operation Support Contract. The purpose of this project is to provide the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) with services to support the implementation of state Demonstration programs for individuals enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid, known as Medicare-Medicaid enrollees (MMEs). These demonstration programs are opportunities for states to test new approaches to providing integrated, high quality care to MMEs.  More

MACPAC Congressional Reports. NORC has been awarded a contract from The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) to assist in the development of MACPAC's annual reports to Congress. MACPAC is a non-partisan commission providing policy analysis to Congress on the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Each year, MACPAC reviews state and federal payment and access policies for Medicaid and CHIP, conducts data analysis, and makes recommendations to Congress for the coming year. NORC has been providing management, technical editing, and formatting support for the annual reports to Congress since the agency's first report in 2011. More

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ State Innovation Initiative Program. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) awarded NORC a contract to serve as the State Innovation Model (SIM) Resource Support Contractor. NORC will support CMMI and the states in designing and testing multi-payer delivery systems and payment models that accelerate health system transformation.  This support includes providing consultation and technical assistance to states as they develop and implement their proposed models and assessing SIMs’ readiness to implement their proposed health care transformation models.   More

Commercial Health Insurance and Public Sector Health Coverage Technical Assistance. In 2011 CCIIO awarded NORC at the University of Chicago a three year contract to provide technical assistance to CCIIO.  Three subcontractors collaborate with NORC on the project – Mathematica Policy Research, Health Management Associates, and Wakely Associates. More

Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration. On this project, NORC is teaming with IMPAQ International and the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors to provide technical and analytic assistance to CMS for the design, implementation, and monitoring of the 3‐year Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration.  More

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Contact

Christine Nye

(301) 634-9515