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Anna Healy James
Anna is currently the Director of Government Relations and Health Policy representing the interests of both Virginia Commonwealth University as well as VCU Health System. Anna coordinates legislative and budget efforts on both the state and federal levels. She works with the Governor’s Administration, the General Assembly and the Virginia Congressional Delegation on issues of higher education policy, Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement, physician issues, higher education funding needs and regulatory matters.
Anna was previously Director of Policy at the Virginia Association of Health Plans (VAHP) where she advocated for eleven national health plans on the issues of mandated benefits, assignment of benefits, Medicaid Managed Care, electronic health records, and healthcare transparency among other issues.
In addition, Anna was previously Special Assistant to the Governor for Policy during the administration of Governor Mark Warner. During her three year tenure in the Governor’s Policy Office, Anna established and oversaw the Governor’s Healthy Virginians initiative as well as counseled the Governor on issues such as teacher quality, k-12 education, procurement, capital outlay, election reform and higher education.
Anna is a 2002 graduate of Virginia Tech with a Bachelors in Science degree in Business Management. She is currently pursing her MBA with a Healthcare Administration concentration at VCU.
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