Chiquita Brooks-LaSure
https://www.manatt.com/chiquita-brooks-lasure
Georgetown University, Master of Public Policy, 1999
Princeton University, A.B., politics, 1996
Profile
A former policy official who played a key role in guiding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) through passage and implementation, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure provides policy analysis and strategic advice to healthcare stakeholders across the private and public sectors. Her practice focuses on helping clients understand the implications of regulatory and legislative policies across private insurance, Medicaid and Medicare.
Chiquita has more than 20 years of experience in health policy. As deputy director for policy at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and earlier at the Department of Health & Human Services as director of coverage policy, she led the agency’s implementation of ACA coverage and insurance reform policy provisions.
Earlier in her career, Chiquita assisted House leaders in passing several healthcare laws, including the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 and the ACA, as part of the Democratic staff for the U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee.
She began her career as a program examiner and lead Medicaid analyst for the Office of Management and Budget, coordinating Medicaid policy development for the health financing branch. Her role included evaluating policy options and briefing White House and federal agency officials on policy recommendations with regard to the uninsured, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
###
Chiquita in the News
10.20.20
Manatt Health managing director Chiquita Brooks-LaSure spoke with Wolters Kluwer’s Health Law Daily about how the COVID-19 pandemic ...
09.04.20
On September 4, 2020, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced the appointment of Manatt Health managing director Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to a ...
08.21.20
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure was quoted in PatientEngagementHIT discussing the maternal healthcare inequities faced by Black and other minority mothers, ...
10.03.19
Manatt Health managing director Chiquita Brooks-LaSure spoke with CNN about the important role that healthcare will play on the 2020 presidential e...
Chiquita's Events and Webinars
10.15.20
On November 10, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in California v. Texas —formerly referred to as Texas v. ...
09.21.20
Find Out Where the Candidates Stand on Key Healthcare Issues—From COVID-19 to Prescription Drug Pricing to Health Equity—During a New ...
03.02.20
Fourteen states—including, for the first time, California and Texas, the two most populous states—will hold a presidential primary on ...
04.22.19
Lawmakers across the country are considering “Medicaid buy-in” programs to stabilize the Affordable Care Act insurance market and offer ...
Show More
Chiquita's Articles
01.22.21
The Nevada Legislature enacted SCR 10 during the 2019 legislative session, calling for the state to conduct a study of the feasibility, viability ...
12.17.20
Section 9 of Oregon State Senate Bill 770 (SB 770), signed into law in 2019, directed the state of Oregon to engage in an analysis to help ...
11.25.20
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted long-standing health inequities that have resulted in an increased risk of sickness and death for people of ...
05.18.20
The danger of being uninsured is more acute than ever for many Americans, as the unemployment rate continues to rise in the fallout from the ...
Show More
Chiquita's Newsletters
12.08.20
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted long-standing health inequities which have resulted in an increased risk of sickness and death for people of ...
10.21.20
On November 10, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in California v. Texas —formerly referred to as Texas v. United States ...
09.14.20
Last month, both parties held their 2020 conventions. In addition to the pageantry associated with formally nominating the presidential candidate, ...
06.24.20
Healthcare is one of several key issues on voters’ minds in the upcoming presidential election.