Alyssa Llamas M.P.H.
Vice President
Alyssa Llamas is a creative and resourceful health policy consultant, leveraging her diverse background to help a wide range of clients – including foundations, not-for-profits, government agencies, health care providers, and insurers – advance their policy objectives. She provides strategic advice and assistance rooted in “connecting the dots” to identify, create, and leverage opportunities that achieve the goals of Impact Health’s clients. Alyssa specializes in insurance and provider reform, commercial cost-containment, public health, and women’s health.
Prior to joining Impact Health in 2018, Alyssa worked on reproductive health policy at the National Women’s Health Network and abortion research at the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health. Alyssa also interned at the Health Office of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee under then Ranking Member Patty Murray. Before graduate school, Alyssa spent five years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), serving as a Public Health Associate at the Rocky Mountain Tribal Epidemiology Center and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and as a Health Communication Specialist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Alyssa received a Master of Public Health with a concentration in health policy from The George Washington University and her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, San Diego. Alyssa lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband, Matt, and shih-tzu, Lemon.
What’s Ahead for Rulemaking: Medicaid Edition
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is preparing for the unwinding of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) when states will resume Medicaid eligibility redeterminations. The PHE is currently set to expire on April 16. However, we anticipate HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra will renew the PHE another 90 days through July 16, since…
Key Takeaways from Senate HELP Hearing on Mental Health and SUD; Top Legislative Priorities for Bipartisan Package
On Feb. 1, 2022, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee convened a hearing to discuss priorities and proposals for bipartisan legislation addressing mental health and substance use disorders (SUD). The discussion signaled that the legislation could be comparable to the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (P.L. 115-271) in terms…
President Biden’s American Families Plan; Addresses Child Care, Paid Leave, Nutrition, Education; Makes Permanent ACA Premium Tax Credit Increase; No Drug Pricing
In advance of President Joe Biden’s address to a Joint Session of Congress this evening, the White House unveiled the American Families Plan, the “human infrastructure” component of the Administration’s broader infrastructure plan (fact sheet). The roughly $1.8 trillion proposal calls for investments in child care, paid leave, nutrition, and education as well as various…
Framing the Week
Senate Republicans have no immediate plans to consider the HEROES Act (H.R. 6800) – the $3 trillion coronavirus relief package passed by House Democrats last Friday (May 15) – or present a counter offer to begin negotiations. Instead, the Senate will consider a slew of judicial nominees before adjourning for the Memorial Day recess. In…
Framing the Week
While initially speeding out of the gate with a large “Phase 4” recovery bill focused on infrastructure and other Democratic priorities, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) released a Dear Colleague over the weekend acknowledging that a bipartisan effort is needed to create a “CARES 2” package that will build off the last emergency relief measure…