ATI Advisory is transforming healthcare to reduce cost and complexity for everyone, especially individuals with high needs. ATI is in the business of helping public and private organizations successfully scale transformative change.
The pandemic disrupted decades of legislation, regulation, and system norms and highlighted gaps in our health and long-term care systems. As care delivery shifts in response, policymakers and operators face new challenges and new opportunities.
We bring creative solutions to hard business problems and prepare our clients to succeed in caring for populations with complex care needs.
Learn MoreWe lead and organize processes to design a wide array of programs, solutions, and interventions and assess the effectiveness of those solutions in achieving population health goals.
Learn MoreWe conduct health services research, and analyze and develop public policy solutions that improve care financing and delivery for complex care populations and their families.
Learn MoreOur work promotes investment, integration, and alignment, and helps organizations succeed in this new normal. We work across many diverse sectors with many stakeholders to identify and foster partnerships, create shared solutions, and move ideas into action. ATI is backed by a team of nationally recognized experts and experienced analysts.
Fred Bentley provides strategic consulting services to leading post-acute and long-term care organizations along with health plans, investors, and innovators in the senior care industry. He focuses on payment and delivery system innovations that lead to more efficient, better-integrated care for vulnerable patient populations.
Prior to joining ATI, Bentley served as Managing Director at Avalere Health. In that role, he was Avalere’s lead spokesperson on value-based care, CMMI models, and post-acute care issues. He worked with leading payers, providers, and technology companies to define their growth strategies and develop innovative partnership models. Bentley’s experience with post-acute and long-term care organizations stretches back ten years to his days at The Advisory Board Company, where he launched the Post-Acute Care Collaborative. This research program provides strategy and operational research and consulting to leading senior care providers.
Bentley’s work sits at the intersection of payers and providers, helping forge innovative partnerships and new business models that improve the quality, efficiency, and patient experience for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. As a keynote speaker and panelist at industry conferences, he is frequently asked to provide an expert perspective on the future of the post-acute care industry and opportunities for innovation and disruption.
Bentley earned a master’s degree in Public Health and Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s in Political Science from Haverford College.
Anna Kaltenboeck is a health economist whose work focuses on how federal and commercial reimbursement policies shape the market for prescription drugs and new health technologies.
Prior to joining ATI, Kaltenboeck was Senior Health Advisor on the Senate Committee on Finance, where she led on drug pricing issues, including Medicare negotiation and prescription drug reimbursement provisions. In her previous role as Program Director for the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes and the Drug Pricing Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, she conducted research on policies to re-align payment for prescription drugs with evidence of their value and offer economic rewards for the creation of new treatments based on how much they improve patients’ lives.
Kaltenboeck provides federal and state-level technical assistance that is informed by her research and experience as a consultant specializing in pricing and market access for pharmaceutical products. She has advised states on providing Hepatitis C treatment through subscription-based contracts, and CMS on Medicare payments, pricing, and Part D redesign options.
Kaltenboeck received her undergraduate and master’s degrees in Economics from Tufts University, and her MBA from Yale University.
Tyler Overstreet Cromer joined ATI after more than a decade of experience in federal health policy at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). She advises clients on innovative financing and healthcare delivery models.
Most recently, Cromer served as a senior executive at OMB providing oversight and expertise for budget development and execution across the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She is particularly interested in payment policy, healthcare delivery system reform, and providing insights to clients building on her years of experience shaping federal policy on these topics.
Cromer was involved in many of the reforms to traditional Medicare, having led efforts at OMB related to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) from its inception until her arrival at ATI. She also worked on the initial design and regulations of the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Cromer has provided oversight of and guidance to various other health programs and agencies, including the Older Americans Act programs administered by the Administration for Community Living, federal policy related to electronic medical records, and the administrative budget of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Cromer received her Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and her bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University.
Preparing for future success requires research-driven, creative solutions led by people with passion. Our consultants include entrepreneurs, business strategists, financial analysts, policy experts, data scientists, former Hill, OMB, and CMS staff, and designers.
Learn About Our TeamTyler Overstreet Cromer joined ATI after more than a decade of experience in federal health policy at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). She advises clients on innovative financing and healthcare delivery models.
Most recently, Cromer served as a senior executive at OMB providing oversight and expertise for budget development and execution across the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She is particularly interested in payment policy, healthcare delivery system reform, and providing insights to clients building on her years of experience shaping federal policy on these topics.
Cromer was involved in many of the reforms to traditional Medicare, having led efforts at OMB related to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) from its inception until her arrival at ATI. She also worked on the initial design and regulations of the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Cromer has provided oversight of and guidance to various other health programs and agencies, including the Older Americans Act programs administered by the Administration for Community Living, federal policy related to electronic medical records, and the administrative budget of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Cromer received her Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and her bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University.
Tina Hansen Pickett offers a unique blend of expertise that ranges from federal policy to on-the-ground healthcare delivery system transformation.
Most recently, Pickett worked on advancing the shift to value-based care at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. There, she led the formation of the Community Care of Brooklyn Independent Practice Association (CCB IPA), including its value-based strategy. Pickett was instrumental in securing numerous value-based contracts for CCB IPA, including with Medicaid managed care plans, the Medicare Shared Savings Program, and the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement – Advanced program.
Prior to Maimonides, Pickett served as a health policy expert at the Office of Management and Budget, where she analyzed, developed, and oversaw the implementation of policies and programs related to innovative payment models at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, healthcare quality and research at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, comparative effectiveness research, and health IT, among other areas.
Pickett has a Master of Public Health degree from the University at Albany and a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Northern Iowa.
Allison Rizer brings nearly 20 years of health-related experience to ATI Advisory, including more than a decade focused on insurance and government programs.
Before joining ATI, Rizer most recently served as Vice President of Health Policy & Strategy with UnitedHealthcare, where she led the organization’s national policy efforts specific to individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. In this role, she worked closely with state and national health plan leadership, policymakers, and other experts to bridge health policy and business worlds to inform sustainable program design and growth strategies. Rizer previously served as a Medicaid Policy Director, working with individual states and Medicaid health plans to provide strategic guidance on emerging policy and program trends.
Allison Rizer also spent several years with The Lewin Group, leading federal contracts with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other agencies across programs targeting aging and vulnerable populations. Her work at Lewin led to the development and refinement of Medicare Advantage network adequacy standards, Special Needs Plan Model of Care process improvements, CMS clarification of the Medicare therapy benefit, and education for State Health Insurance Assistance Programs (SHIPs). While at Lewin, Rizer also had the opportunity to co-lead the development of a successful healthy weight pilot for aging lesbian and bisexual women.
Allison Rizer has spoken at numerous national conferences and participated in expert working groups on issues across the aging spectrum. She currently serves as adjunct faculty at the University of St. Thomas, MN where she co-teaches an MBA course on health policy.
Transforming care delivery at the ground level requires a respect for process, program management, attention to detail, and experience evaluating what works. ATI’s team knows what matters to public and private payers and how to design programs that will meet their needs.
Through the powerful community of family caregivers that ATI supports as part of our Daughterhood program, we understand the firsthand experience of beneficiaries and their families who are navigating care systems and the needs of the people they serve.
Our core research team includes health services researchers, entrepreneurs, business strategists, data scientists, and project managers. We work closely with our advisors to bring deep operational expertise to analysis that will transform care delivery.
Brianna Ensslin Janoski is focused on issues related to Medicaid LTSS and dually eligible populations.
Before joining ATI, she was an independent consultant who supported clients on projects related to managed care, Medicaid, Medicare, SHIPs, and integrating care for some of our nation’s most vulnerable populations. Most recently, Janoski served as the Associate Vice President of Medicare/MMP Product at Molina Healthcare. Here, she led the team responsible for more than 20 plan benefit packages, driving development, administration, and training of these products nationally.
Prior to this role, Janoski was a Director of Public Policy at Molina Healthcare where she supported its plans across the country on a variety of federal and state legislative, regulatory, and policy priorities. She focused on issues related to D-SNPs, MMPs, and MLTSS programs, notably spearheading the organization’s policy and advocacy around MMP enrollment growth and capitated Financial Alignment Demonstration program extensions, as well as D-SNP default enrollment and preparing for D-SNP rule changes.
Janoski received her Master of Public Health in Urban Health and Bachelor of Science in Health Science degrees from Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
Allison Rizer brings nearly 20 years of health-related experience to ATI Advisory, including more than a decade focused on insurance and government programs.
Before joining ATI, Rizer most recently served as Vice President of Health Policy & Strategy with UnitedHealthcare, where she led the organization’s national policy efforts specific to individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. In this role, she worked closely with state and national health plan leadership, policymakers, and other experts to bridge health policy and business worlds to inform sustainable program design and growth strategies. Rizer previously served as a Medicaid Policy Director, working with individual states and Medicaid health plans to provide strategic guidance on emerging policy and program trends.
Allison Rizer also spent several years with The Lewin Group, leading federal contracts with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other agencies across programs targeting aging and vulnerable populations. Her work at Lewin led to the development and refinement of Medicare Advantage network adequacy standards, Special Needs Plan Model of Care process improvements, CMS clarification of the Medicare therapy benefit, and education for State Health Insurance Assistance Programs (SHIPs). While at Lewin, Rizer also had the opportunity to co-lead the development of a successful healthy weight pilot for aging lesbian and bisexual women.
Allison Rizer has spoken at numerous national conferences and participated in expert working groups on issues across the aging spectrum. She currently serves as adjunct faculty at the University of St. Thomas, MN where she co-teaches an MBA course on health policy.
Robert Shalett leads ATI's external communications.
Robert's career in healthcare includes work at professional specialty societies including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Psychiatric Association. He’s worked with patient advocacy organizations to advance their visibility and promote their missions.
Robert also worked with several foundations and grantmakers supporting and promoting their programs. He’s held leadership roles at the Council on Foundations and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University. There, he helped launch The Foundation Review, the first peer-reviewed journal of philanthropy.
A published author, Shalett received his bachelor’s degree from Southern Methodist University.
Bill Winfrey is a Director in ATI’s Medicare innovation practice. He joined ATI after almost seven years at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), where he led internal strategy development to address the social determinants of health (SDOH).
Previously, Winfrey worked in federal service, overseeing the CMMI portfolio at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and led the Department of Health and Human Service’s Value-Based Transformation initiative. At CMMI, he supported the development of the Accountable Health Communities model and has seen his work on SDOH, health equity, and value-based payments contribute to innovations in payment, screening, and cross-sector coordination activities across models and programs at both CMMI and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Before working at the federal level, Winfrey worked with community-based organizations and schools as a program administrator and teacher serving under-resourced communities.
Bill Winfrey holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the Trachtenberg School at George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from St Louis University.
Policy change requires more than just subject matter expertise. It requires the right people with data analytics capabilities, and knowledge of government budgetary, legislative, and regulatory processes who can clearly communicate complex topics. Our innately creative team includes nationally recognized policy experts, data scientists, and former Hill, OMB, and CMS staff who are committed to change.
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