Pamela Stanley, LPCC, ACT
Associate Principal
Health Management Associates
Lansing, MI
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Pamela Stanley has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare administration, managed care, clinical practice, and consulting. Her expertise includes value-based care and payment reform, population health, provider contracting and engagement, clinical practice and operational transformation, quality improvement, healthcare analytics, and behavioral health.
Pamela has designed and implemented value-based payment programs grounded in the Quintuple Aim and negotiated provider contracts. She developed networks, led quality management initiatives including HEDIS, and supported healthcare organizations transitioning from acute, visit-based care to proactive, preventive, population-based models. As director of Population Health for the University of New Mexico Medical Group & Health System, she advanced patient-centered medical homes and population health strategies.
Pamela is licensed as a clinical mental health counselor in New Mexico and professional counselor in Michigan. She has more than 18 years of behavioral health experience, including evidence-based treatment, clinical supervision, rural and frontier care, and is a former faculty member of Project ECHO’s Interactive Addictions Psychiatry program. She helped develop provider-led behavioral health outcome measures and reporting systems and led value-based metrics projects for the New Mexico Behavioral Health Providers Association.
Before joining HMA, she served as a principal of the Strategic Interventionist for Coaching, Counseling & Consulting, LLC, and as a consultant with Caraway Solutions. She also served on the New Mexico Primary Care Council’s payment reform workgroup, helping develop the state’s first approved Primary Care Payment Model. She continues this work as a subject matter expert and member of HMA’s Primary Care Payment Reform team.
Pamela has a master’s degree in counseling from Webster University and a bachelor’s degree in health policy studies from the University of Michigan. She is also a certified cognitive therapist from the nationally recognized Academy of Cognitive Therapy since May 2007.