- ACA Implementation & State Health Reform
- Coverage and Access
- Federal/State Issues
- Medicaid and CHIP
- Population and Public Health
- Providers and Services
- Acute Care
- Assisted Living
- Behavioral Health
- Case Management
- Child Development Services
- Chronic Care Management
- Community Health Centers
- Developmental Screening
- Early Childhood Services
- Emergency Care
- EPSDT
- Family Planning
- Federally Qualified Health Centers
- Home & Community Based Services
- Hospitals
- Long Term Services & Supports
- Medical Homes & Health Homes
- Mental Health
- Nursing Homes
- Oral Health
- Preventive Care
- Primary Care
- Safety Net Providers
- Quality, Cost, and Health System Performance
- ACOs
- Adverse Event Reporting
- Care Transitions
- Comparative Effectiveness
- Cost Sharing
- Delivery System Reform
- Fraud and Abuse
- Health Care Workforce
- Health Information Technology
- Managed Care
- Medical Homes & Health Homes
- Medical Malpractice
- Patient Safety
- Payment Reform
- Performance Measurement
- Provider Payment Policy
- Quality Oversight
- Specific Populations
- Adolescents
- Childless Adults
- Children
- Children with Special Health Care Needs
- Dual Eligibles
- Elders
- Families
- Low Income People
- Parents
- People with Chronic Conditions
- People with Developmental Disabilities
- Transitional Youth
- Vulnerable Populations
- Young Adults
- Youth
- Youth in Foster Care System
- Youth in Juvenile Justice System
Catherine Hess joined NASHP in 2005 as a senior program director. In 2011 she was promoted to managing director for coverage and access. She works with a team of program directors, managers and staff to develop and implement programs and projects focused on state policies and practices related to insurance coverage, access to care and health care reform.
Catherine serves as the co-director for Maximizing Enrollment : Transforming State Coverage, a $15 million national initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF); Co-Expert Content Director for the RWJF sponsored State Refor(u)m web-based platform for state exchange on health care reform; Project Director for a David and Lucile Packard Foundation program funded for over a decade to provide technical assistance to and report on state children’s health insurance programs; director for an Atlantic Philanthropies project to address children and health care reform; and principal investigator for the National Workgroup to Integrate a Safety Net into Health Care Reform Implementation, supported by The Commonwealth Fund.
Catherine holds adjunct faculty appointments at both Johns Hopkins and George Washington Universities' schools of public health. She has 30 years of senior and executive level state and national health policy experience. She served as the first executive director of the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP), a position she held for 14 years. AMCHP's and Catherine’s work were recognized with numerous awards, including the first HHS Dr. Vince L. Hutchins Partnership Award. From 2002 to 2005 Catherine worked as an independent health policy consultant to national organizations and federal and state agencies.
In the 1980s, Catherine served as director of the policy office for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Division of Family Health, where she played an instrumental role in the development of the nation’s first state maternity care insurance program, Healthy Start. Catherine graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts from the University of Rochester and has a master of social work from the Boston University School of Social Work.
