Liz Fowler is a nationally recognized expert in federal health policy with a focus on value-based care and payment innovation. Most recently, Liz was Deputy Administrator and Director of the Innovation Center at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In that role, she was responsible for advancing innovative payment and care delivery models in Medicare and Medicaid to promote value-based care on a national scale.

Prior to leading the Innovation Center, she was Executive Vice President of programs at The Commonwealth Fund and Vice President for Global Health Policy at Johnson & Johnson. As Chief Health Counsel at the Senate Finance Committee, she played a major role in the drafting and passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, and then served as special assistant to President Obama on health care and economic policy at the National Economic Council to implement the ACA. She also played a key role drafting the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA).

Liz has over 25 years of experience in health policy and health services research. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she currently serves on the faculty as a distinguished scholar, and a law degree (J.D.) from the University of Minnesota. Liz is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Aspen Health Innovators Fellowship and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.