Greater Boston
Margo Rosenbach is the CEO and founder of Rosenbach Consulting, a woman-owned small business that provides strategic consulting, advisory, and analytics services to advance health care access, quality, outcomes, and innovation. She brings a strategic, data-driven lens to advising public agencies, small businesses, founders, and non-profit organizations. Margo is passionate about quality measurement and improvement in Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and public health programs, especially in the areas of women’s health, child health, maternal health, oral health, home and community-based services, and experience of care. Her skills include program assessment, policy analysis, using data to tell a story, stakeholder engagement and workgroup facilitation, project leadership, strategic communications, strategic planning, event planning, client relations, complex project management, proposal development, and business strategy. Before founding Rosenbach Consulting LLC in 2024, she was a Vice President at Mathematica for 26 years and prior to that, Executive Vice President at Health Economics Research Inc. She serves on non-profit boards, bringing deep expertise in analytics, strategic planning, and community engagement. She has a Ph.D. in health policy and is a member of WBL (Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry).
Rosenbach Consulting is an SBA-certified woman-owned small business that provides strategic consulting, advisory, and analytics services to federal and state clients and other mission-aligned organizations. Its mission is to advance health care access and quality and bridge the gap between evidence and action to improve health outcomes and program effectiveness. Services include program assessment, policy analysis, data analysis, strategic communications, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, workgroup facilitation, complex project management, business operations, and business strategy.
WBL connects women executives across the health care industry through networking events, executive education, and a supportive community of peers. Selected as an ad hoc membership volunteer to help welcome new members and plan events. #wbl www.wbl.org
Provided leadership within a growing and diversifying company, including staff recruitment and mentoring, new business development, and project and operational management. Area director for state health policy and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) projects for two decades. Directed more than 35 projects, ranging in size from <$100,000 to more than $70 million. Projects focused on planning, implementation, evaluation, and technical assistance related to Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and public health programs (including performance measurement in Title V MCH programs). Led a Congressionally mandated evaluation of CHIP, evaluated the National Healthy Start program, studied the effectiveness of the Text4Baby mobile health platform, and assessed the impacts of state Section 1115 demonstration projects.
Progressively responsible research and executive management roles within related for-profit (HER) and not-for-profit (CHER) small businesses. Conducted a wide range of studies, such as Section 1915(b) and 1115 evaluations of Medicaid expansions and managed care programs in numerous states; analyses of access to care and satisfaction among Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries; assessments of the impact of Medicare and Medicaid benefit design on costs and use (including mental health parity); and variations in provider payment and practice patterns in Medicare (including anesthesia payment options). Studies used a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods and data sources.
Principal Investigator, NCHSR Dissertation Grant, The Use of Physicians’ Services by Low-Income Children: The Role of Medicaid and Other Factors (1984-1985). Published “Impact of Medicaid on Physician Use by Low-Income Children,” American Journal of Public Health, September 1989. Research Director, Need Indicators in Maternal and Child Health Planning, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal and Child Health Bureau (1982-1985). Research Fellow, HCFA Health Policy Center, Heller Graduate School (1981-1983).