They’ve Got Next: Healthcare and Life Sciences Fresh Face Anne Karl

Manatt’s Anne Karl loves helping states navigate the Medicaid program because she’s working to improve the country’s health-care safety net.

Her day-to-day is spent thinking about how to use the Medicaid program to better cover individuals, offer more services, and pay for them more efficiently, she said.

Karl has been working with North Carolina since 2017 to completely restructure how its Medicaid program pays over $2 billion in hospital payments each year. The state is transitioning its Medicaid program in July from one where the state pays health-care providers, including hospitals, a fee directly for each service they provide to ...