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Jon Glaudemans, M.P.A.

Jon Glaudemans directs Avalere’s day-to-day operational management and consults on a wide array of Medicare, Medicaid, and hospital/plan issues.  Jon has more than 25 years of senior leadership experience in health insurance, managed care, policy issues management, and public affairs.  Avalere is a leading strategic advisory firm, with over 100 professionals specializing in the intersection of health policy and business strategy.

Most recently, Jon was Managing Director of the Washington, DC, office of the Austin, Texas-based firm, Public Strategies, a leading public affairs firm specializing in developing and executing board- and senior-management strategies to manage public policy threats and opportunities.  Prior to joining Public Strategies, Jon served as the Transition Coordinator to the then-incoming Administrator of the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration/CMS, where he led the development and initial roll out of the President’s proposed Prescription Drug Discount Card Program.

Previously, Jon spent 10 years at Aetna, where his leadership in progressively responsible positions included General Manager of Aetna U.S. Healthcare’s Capital Region and Vice President for Strategic Planning and Business Development.  In his role at Aetna, Jon worked with the Jackson Hole Group and others in developing pro-competition policies to expand coverage and manage healthcare spending.  Jon began his career at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), where he spent nine years working on such seminal health policy issues as the introduction of hospital prospective payment, the adoption of RB-RVS and physician spending targets, and the first effort to extend prescription drug coverage to Medicare beneficiaries.

Jon holds a B.A. in Political Science from M.I.T. and a M.P.A. in Economics from Princeton University.