Amanda brings an industry-wide view shaped by legal leadership roles across providers, payors, value-based care, and government enforcement. She advises executive leadership and business teams on regulatory, strategic, and technology initiatives, and she cares deeply about care models that improve outcomes for patients and families while lowering the total cost of care.

She began her career in public service, organizing community legal initiatives across South Louisiana before becoming a state and federal public defender. In those roles she litigated hundreds of cases in state and federal courts, representing clients ranging from young people in diversion programs to death row prisoners pursuing civil rights claims. She later served as an Assistant Attorney General and Special Assistant United States Attorney, prosecuting complex healthcare fraud and abuse, as well as exploitation of at-risk and elder adults. That work gave her a firsthand view of how reimbursement structures, regulatory complexity, and operational gaps affect both patients and the organizations that serve them, and it led her to in-house healthcare leadership and a career focused on value-based care.

Over the past seven years, Amanda has held increasingly senior legal roles across the industry. At UnitedHealth Group, she advised on government programs, including Medicaid and Medicare, and on innovative network contracting strategies for non-traditional providers such as digital health platforms. She then served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of a venture-backed, value-based care company delivering in-home primary care to Medicare populations, advising executive leadership and the Board on governance, strategy, commercial transactions, regulatory matters, and growth. Most recently, Amanda was Senior Corporate Counsel at Piedmont Healthcare, one of Georgia's largest health systems, where she advised business, clinical, and executive leaders on payer-provider relationships, enterprise technology, AI governance, and interoperability.

In every role, she has focused on helping healthcare organizations manage regulatory complexity while making room for innovation, growth, and better outcomes for patients and communities.

Fun facts about Amanda: She lives in Atlanta with her partner, Philip, and her daughter, Stella. She holds a bachelor's degree from Emory University and a JD from Brooklyn Law School. Outside of work, she's an avid hiker and aspiring ultrarunner, an enthusiastic traveler, a vegetable gardener, and a devoted explorer of local restaurants, from Atlanta's newest openings to roadside catfish cabins.

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