CMMI through the Looking Glass

Adam Boehler is the founder and CEO of Rubicon Founders, an entrepreneurial healthcare investment firm focused on building and growing transformational companies. Adam has extensive experience in investment, entrepreneurship, and innovation in both the private sector and in the U.S. Government.Adam founded three successful businesses and is widely regarded as a leader in the healthcare and private investment sectors. Most recently, Adam founded and served as CEO of Landmark Health, a companydelivering around-the-clock medical care to chronically ill patients in their homes. During Adam’s tenure, Landmark grew to be the largest home-based medical group in the country, with over 1,000 employees serving 80,000 patients.While at Landmark, Adam was recruited to lead healthcare innovation for the United States, serving as Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Deputy Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and Director of the Innovation Center at CMS (CMMI) where he focused on transforming the American healthcare system to create better outcomes for patients at lower cost. Adam was also a founding member of Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership which ultimately led to the first COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. Following HHS, Adam was appointed by the President and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the first Chief Executive Officer of the new U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the U.S. Government’s international investment arm. Adam served on the negotiating team for the Abraham Accords and is the recipient of the Department of Defense’s highest civilian medal for his work. Adam is currently a board member at the Atlantic Council and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Dr. Elizabeth Fowler is the Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at CMS. Dr. Fowler previously served as Executive Vice President of programs at The Commonwealth Fund and Vice President for Global Health Policy at Johnson & Johnson. She was special assistant to President Obama on health care and economic policy at the National Economic Council. In 2008-2010, she was Chief Health Counsel to Senate Finance Committee Chair, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), where she played a critical role developing the Senate version of the Affordable Care Act. She also played a key role drafting the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA). Dr. Fowler has over 25 years of experience in health policy and health services research. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where her research focused on risk adjustment, and a law degree (J.D.) from the University of Minnesota. She is admitted to the bar in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Dr. Fowler is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Aspen Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Aneesh Chopra is the President of CareJourney, an open data membership service building a trusted, transparent rating system for physicians, networks, facilities and markets on the move to value. He served as the first U.S. Chief Technology Officer under

Brad is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Russell Street Ventures, an innovative healthcare firm focused on launching and scaling companies that serve some of our nation’s most vulnerable patient populations. Brad also serves as Chief Executive Officer of Main Street Health, which provides primary care services to patients in rural America, and as Executive Chairman of CareBridge, which serves homebound Medicaid patients. Together, CareBridge and Main Street Health have over $2.5 billion in annualized revenue, with each company valued at over $1 billion. Brad was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aspire Health, which he grew into the nation’s largest home-based palliative care provider before selling it to Anthem for $440 million in 2018. Brad then served as Chief Operating Officer of Anthem’s Diversified Business Group, a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of five companies. While in government, Brad served as Deputy Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Deputy Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). At the White House, Brad helped operationalize various elements of the federal response to COVID-19 including scaling testing across the country and launching Project Airbridge, which shipped billions of medical supplies from around the world to America. Brad also served as a Board Member of Operation Warp Speed, helping develop COVID-19 vaccines in record time. At HHS, Brad launched innovative payment models that lowered the price of prescription drugs and allowed rural communities to transform how healthcare is delivered. Brad previously served as Chief of Staff at the Tennessee Department of Economic Development where he helped create over 28,000 jobs while reducing the cost to taxpayers. Brad also served as the founding Executive Director of the Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE), a K-12 education non-profit in Tennessee. Brad has lectured at Duke University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University. He has also authored articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, Fierce Healthcare, The Tennessean, Knoxville News Sentinel, and Memphis Commercial Appeal. Brad graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University and received an M.Phil from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Brad is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee and currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Lauren and their three daughters Harper, Avery and Emma.