Julie Schilz

Julie Schilz is the Senior Director, Health Innovations in Mathematica’s Health Unit. She leads Mathematica’s business development in the private health care sector.

Before joining Mathematica in 2018, Schilz held senior positions in leadership, operations, and strategic development that demanded innovation and collaboration with a range of health care organizations and industry stakeholders. She led efforts at Anthem to develop and implement its care delivery transformation program. She also served in a leadership role for a primary care management services organization, managed Colorado’s Multi-Payer Patient Centered Medical Home initiative, and implemented the Beacon Primary Care Transformation program in Colorado funded by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

Schilz holds a number of other professional affiliations and is active with several leading health organizations. She has engaged with the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s Comprehensive Primary Care initiative, serves as executive committee liaison to the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, and is on the editorial board for Medical Home News. She is also a clinical programs committee member for the National Committee for Quality Assurance and served on the Primary Care Payment Model Workgroup for the Health Care Payment Learning Action Network, where she drove development of the Payer Action Collaborative.

Schilz has a bachelor’s degree in nursing, receiving her formal clinical training as a registered nurse at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, and she holds an M.B.A. with a concentration in health from Regis University.