Blair Childs has held leadership positions in Premier, Inc., trade and advocacy associations, and Aetna, a Fortune 25 company.

Childs has spent his professional life: 

• Understanding how Washington works and shaping healthcare policy.
• Gaining a deep, firsthand understanding of the major issues impacting healthcare’s future.
• Synthesizing these policy developments to help people understand the trends shaping the US healthcare system.  

Childs has been a respected influencer at the center of policy issues in Washington, D.C. for more than four decades. He has run some of the nation’s most high profile and successful public policy campaigns that have shaped our healthcare system, including:

• Establishing value-based purchasing within Medicare as part of the Affordable Care Act;
• Enacting the law establishing the Medicare Advantage program;
• Achieving enactment of tort reform in 41 states (including New York); 
• Forcing interoperability in electronic medical record systems;
• Creating an FDA user fee and a faster reimbursement program for breakthrough medical devices, and
• Helping our nation address the supply chain crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Childs has been invited in to speak in front of hundreds of organizations and conferences to help executives decipher the trends and outlook shaping America’s healthcare system.  

In addition, he has appeared on and been quoted in virtually all major national publications and networks, including ABC, PBS, NBC, Politico, Inside Health Policy, among others.