Jane McClenathan is a Manatt Health manager in the Firm’s Washington, D.C., office.
Jane works with states, plans, providers and community advocates to drive improvements in health care delivery systems. She leverages her broad Medicaid knowledge and quantitative skills to advise clients on complex strategy and policy issues. Jane has deep experience in providing data-driven policy recommendations to senior leaders and combines her knowledge of strategic planning, quantitative analysis, project management and program implementation to advance clients’ health care access, quality, equity and financing goals.
Before joining Manatt, Jane worked as a policy adviser to the Medicaid director at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In this role, she helped develop new flexibilities for section 1115 demonstrations related to continuous eligibility, health-related social needs and Designated State Health Program funding. She also led efforts to design and implement a performance management strategy for Medicaid managed care. In addition, Jane has extensive state-level experience from her time as a policy and finance strategist for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, where she worked on Medicaid issues, payment reform and the COVID-19 response.