Patricia M. Boozang

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Boozang, Patricia

Patricia M. Boozang is a Managing Director of Manatt Health Solutions, an interdisciplinary policy and business advisory practice of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. Ms. Boozang provides policy, strategy and operations advice to a wide range of state and federal agencies and public and private healthcare organizations. She has particular experience in helping clients navigate the operational, regulatory and political challenges of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other government health insurance programs, including Medicaid, Medicare and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Ms. Boozang regularly advises foundations, states and health plans on health reform implementation.

Ms. Boozang advises the Coalition of New York State Public Health Plans, an association of 10 managed care plans that collectively serves more than 2 million beneficiaries of New York State's public health insurance programs. She also manages and facilitates the CMS Exchange Innovator and Federally Facilitated Marketplace Learning Collaboratives, working with states on health benefit exchange implementation, eligibility and enrollment, and technology development issues.

Prior to joining Manatt, Ms. Boozang was Vice President, marketing and communications, for Physician Weblink, a national healthcare technology and physician management company. Before that, she was an associate at Sterling Health Capital Management, where she assisted hospitals and community health centers in business planning and implementation.

She earned her B.A. from Boston College and her M.P.H. from Columbia University.

MS. Boozang is a co-author of the Bloomberg BNA Health Law & Business Portfolio Series No. 2350, Affordable Care Act Implementation: Regulations, Models and Implications.