Craig Schneider, Ph.D., MBA

Principal

Health Management Associates

Boston, MA

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(857) 317-3579

Craig Schneider is a leader in developing and implementing payment reform strategies, promoting all-payer claims databases, and engaging stakeholders across the healthcare system to improve care and value for more than 33 years.

At Health Management Associates (HMA), Dr. Schneider has led and contributed to several projects that help state and federal agencies, multi-stakeholder committees, non-profit organizations and foundations, and health plans design and implement value-based payment initiatives, dashboards and analytic strategies, and performance measurement programs. He is currently the project director for primary care value-based payment programs in Delaware and New Mexico and assists the Center for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Services with enhancing its managed care review tools and processes. Dr. Schneider is also the project director for a number of master contracts, including value-based payment in Hawaii, consulting services for Nevada, providing data and analytic services to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network for the Health Resources and Services Administration.

With HMA, Dr. Schneider has previously served as project director for a guaranteed basic care feasibility study in Minnesota, helped the New Mexico Insurance Department develop a hospital services global budget initiative, facilitated the Kidney Care Quality Alliance’s development of new quality measures, and conducted strategic planning and a privacy and security assessment for the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis. He has also supported the Peterson Center on Healthcare with projects related to cost growth benchmarking.  

Previously, Dr. Schneider led several learning and diffusion projects for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center, including the Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport Learning System. He also led the Accountable Health Communities Implementation, Monitoring, and Learning Systems project that connects clinical care to social determinants of health; and the Learning Systems for [Medicare] Accountable Care Organizations contract that included the Pioneer, Next Generation, Comprehensive End-Stage Renal Disease Care, and Medicare Shared Savings Program models.

As director of health policy at the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, he led several multi-stakeholder workgroups, including the Massachusetts health system’s chief information officers and workgroups that addressed care transitions, quality reporting, payment reform, and electronic health record implementation. Dr. Schneider began his career at the CMS Boston Regional Office and held leadership roles in provider reimbursement, quality improvement, beneficiary services and outreach, and healthcare reform. Based on this diverse and comprehensive experience, he was appointed as CMS liaison to the Bridges to Excellence and Prometheus pay-for-performance design and implementation teams.

He earned a doctorate in health policy from the Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy and a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in English from Boston University.