Jenneil Johansen
Jenneil Johansen
Deputy Director
Jenneil Johansen, MSPH, PMP, is a Deputy Director for Medicaid Quality Initiatives on the Medicaid Policy & Programs team at Aurrera Health Group. She supports various state, federal, and foundation clients on initiatives focused on improving health care quality and access through project management, technical assistance, stakeholder engagement, policy analysis and research, quality measurement, and reporting.
Since joining Aurrera in 2021, Jenneil has provided project management, technical assistance, analytic and policy research support for a range of clients. As a certified Project Management Professional (PMP)®, Jenneil ensures project success by developing dynamic workplans, assessing risks, and aligning teams to work towards major milestones. She has experience working with different project management software and quickly dives into projects to assess gaps, opportunities, and dependencies. Her projects include implementing statewide efforts to collect data and improve the transparency and quality of community behavioral health services in California, supporting a statewide transformation effort to strengthen managed care for Medicaid members, developing provider performance reports to improve access to behavioral health services in the District of Columbia, and summarizing recommendations for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) Medicaid/CHIP Core Sets.
Some of her other recent projects include analyzing racial and ethnic disparities in California, supporting statewide public health system conferences, developing user friendly communications materials for a state newly offering services to meet social care needs, and crafting recommendations for a state accreditation requirement.
Before joining Aurrera Health Group, Jenneil was a management consultant for Guidehouse, where she supported the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In her work with the VA, she led process development efforts to operationalize an innovation center authorized to design, test, and implement pilot programs to improve health care delivery for veterans. She also conducted health care policy research and program analysis and has experience engaging key stakeholders to drive forward valuable solutions.
Jenneil previously worked at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), supporting multiple initiatives to improve health care quality. She oversaw the administration of the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey, which gathers data to measure the quality of managed care organizations participating in the Medicare Advantage program. She also provided technical support to health systems participating in California’s value-based payment programs. Additionally, she researched and developed recommendations to include telehealth in NCQA’s Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) behavioral and physical quality measures.
Jenneil holds a master’s degree in public health, focused on health policy from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a bachelor’s degree in health care policy from Mount St. Mary’s University, Los Angeles. She currently resides in Seattle, WA.
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MPH, Johns Hopkins
BA, Health Care Policy, Mount St. Mary’s University
