Jessica Heeringa has dedicated her career to improving public wellbeing. She has over a decade of experience supporting Medicaid and CHIP policy, operations, delivery systems, and program monitoring.
Since May 2022, Heeringa has directed the Medicaid and CHIP Learning Collaboratives contract to support high-performing state health coverage programs on behalf of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS). Heeringa led Mathematica’s and its partners’ efforts to support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) during the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous enrollment condition, implemented in response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.
Between 2014 and 2022, Heeringa focused on delivery system innovation within Medicaid. She directed the Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) Model Implementation and Monitoring Contract, on behalf of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). In this role, her team worked with eight state Medicaid agencies to implement and monitor the MOM Model to improve outcomes for pregnant and postpartum individuals with opioid use disorder and their babies. Previously, Heeringa led a multistate, mixed methods evaluation of Medicaid section 1115 delivery system reform incentive payment (DSRIP) demonstrations and supported CMCS in improving demonstration evaluations for 10 years.
Prior to shifting to focusing on Medicaid, Heeringa supported delivery system improvement and program evaluation. On behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, she served as a co-deputy director of a coordinating center that sought to advance health system performance through the provision of evidence. She has also held leadership positions on evaluations of CMMI initiatives and coauthored a dissemination and implementation toolkit to advance the use of patient-centered outcomes research in practice for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
She holds an M.P.H. in Health Management and Policy from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a bachelor’s degree in Politics-Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh Honors College.
In September, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) encouraged state Medicaid agencies to advance value-based care by adopting value-based payment (VBP) models.
Learn MoreTo solve their most pressing challenges, organizations turn to Mathematica for deeply integrated expertise. We bring together subject matter and policy experts, data scientists, methodologists, and technologists who work across topics and sectors to help our partners design, improve, and scale evidence-based solutions.
Work With Us