Melanie Bella

Executive Advisor
Cressey & Company
(Moderator)

Melanie Bella has spent her career focused on transforming care for complex and costly populations in the Medicaid and Medicare programs with experience at all levels of government and in the private sector. She is an Executive Advisor with Cressey & Company and served as Chair of the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), a non-partisan agency that advises and makes recommendations to Congress, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the states.

Previously, Ms. Bella was the EVP of Policy and Duals Strategy for Cityblock Health, a value-based provider focusing on serving Medicaid and dually eligible individuals. Before Cityblock, Ms. Bella established and served as the first Director of the Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). She was also Medicaid director for the state of Indiana.

Ms. Bella earned a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School, and a bachelor’s degree from DePauw University.