Joshua Traylor

Joshua Traylor is a Senior Director for the Health Care Transformation Task Force where he leads efforts to improve the design, implementation, and operation of public and private sector Alternative Payment Models. Prior to joining the Task Force, Josh was with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) in the State Innovations Group and the Prevention and Population Health Care Models Group. While at CMMI, he supported state efforts to reform care delivery under the State Innovation Model, helped lead the design of the Integrated Care for Kids model, and provided analytic support for the design of other high priority CMMI models. Before joining CMMI, Josh was a health policy fellow at the Center for Health & Research Transformation where he used claims data to develop recommendations to improve health benefit design, facilitated a local health provider collaborative to increase safety net clinic capacity, and wrote briefs on statewide hospital and FQHC service utilization in the state of Michigan. Josh holds a bachelor’s degree in biological anthropology and a master’s degree in public health from the University of Michigan.