Joshua Traylor

Joshua Traylor, M.P.H., is a director for the Health Care Transformation Task Force. Prior to joining the Task Force, he 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, Mr. Traylor was a health policy fellow at the Center for Health and Research Transformation, where he analyzed claims data for health insurers and developed 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 federally qualified health center service utilization in the state of Michigan. Mr. Traylor holds a bachelor’s degree in biological anthropology and a master’s degree in public health from the University of Michigan.