Lillian Appelbaum

Lillian brings to each engagement enthusiasm and a detailed approach that demonstrates her passion and dedication to reforming today’s healthcare system by way of meaningful and lasting solutions. While Lillian’s project experience runs the gamut from government agencies and nonprofits to private foundations and provider organizations, her goal has always remained the same: to improve the care delivery model for all patients, families, and providers. 

At ECG, Lillian has supported various client types and projects. Her work has spanned from managed care strategy and contracting, payer innovation, expert witness testimony, and more. In a recent engagement, Lillian and her team supported a national provider with managed care negotiations that spanned across 11 states. With over 25 negotiations occurring simultaneously, the team was able to solidify rate increases of over $10 million over three years. Prior to ECG, Lillian worked as a project assistant for the National Council for Behavioral Health (now the National Council for Mental Wellbeing), where she supported more than 100 behavioral health organizations in New York as they prepared to transition to value-based payment structures. In doing so, she helped the entities assess and monitor progress toward value-based readiness and improve performance on various quality-related metrics, such as medication adherence rates and community outreach.