Health Management Associates

Health Management Associates (HMA) is a national healthcare and human services consulting firm founded in 1985, with experience across all 50 states and more than 1,000 healthcare consultants and staff. HMA works with health plans, providers, government agencies, and life sciences organizations on the policy, financial, and operational challenges facing the healthcare system.

Services span Medicaid, Medicare, managed care, healthcare delivery, healthcare finance, behavioral health, human services, public health, and life sciences. The firm organizes its work into actuarial and financial analytics, operations and implementation, policy and regulatory strategies, quality outcomes and research, and strategy and transformation, giving clients access to specialists across the range of issues that intersect with public and private healthcare programs.

Specific offerings include Medicaid Transformation Support covering waivers, procurements, program redesign, managed care strategy, and policy implementation as states pursue Medicaid modernization. HMA also provides Rural Healthcare Transformation Planning for communities facing access and sustainability challenges, and has extended its consulting practice into Healthcare AI Consulting for organizations evaluating how artificial intelligence applies to healthcare operations and policy.