Melissa Boudreault
Director,
Massachusetts's Commonwealth Care Program

Melissa Boudreault is Director of Massachusetts's Commonwealth Care program, at the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector.  The Connector is an independent authority established under Massachusetts' landmark health reform legislation of 2006, to promote health insurance coverage for the uninsured. Only two years after the passage of Health Care Reform legislation there are more than 430,000 newly insured Massachusetts residents enrolled in health insurance plans, and more than 97% of the state’s residents now have coverage.

Commonwealth Care was launched in October of 2006, and provides subsidized insurance to uninsured Massachusetts residents. The program, which as of April 2009 had almost 170,000 members, is a hybrid of Medicaid and commercial insurance models. Melissa has overseen all aspects of the development, implementation and growth of the program. Along with building the IT systems and business processes to support Commonwealth Care she is also responsible for working with the wide range of stakeholders that support the program.

Melissa has worked in a variety of Health Care and Information Technology organizations. Prior to joining the Connector, she served as a senior advisor to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, advising a number of State agencies on the implementation and improvement of a wide range of enrollment, eligibility, operations and IT projects. While at the Commonwealth she also oversaw MassHealth’s Project Management Office and implemented a number of program and system process improvements. Her work experience also includes management roles at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, BBN Technologies, and The Carter Center in Atlanta.

She has a Masters Degree in History from Boston College and undergraduate degree from Simmons College.