Chelsea helps clients navigate federal health policy with firsthand experience translating regulatory decisions into programs and systems. Before joining Avalere Health, she served as a lead for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In that role, she drafted regulatory text, developed policy considerations, helped set program priorities, and worked with policy and technical teams to put changes into practice. Prior to her federal work, Chelsea began her career at CMS as a student trainee, supporting quality initiatives through work on the systems that underpin CMS quality measurement. She also interned at the Bipartisan Policy Center, supporting work on managed care organizations and payment policy, and conducted scientific reviews as a research assistant at Penn State. Chelsea holds an MPH with a concentration in health policy from the George Washington University and a BS in health policy and administration with a minor in sociology from Penn State.
