Julie Weinberg

Julie B. Weinberg was appointed Director of New Mexico’s Medicaid program in June 2011 after serving nine months as Acting Director. Ms. Weinberg came to the Medical Assistance Division of the New Mexico Human Services Department in the fall of 2007 and served as Deputy Director until September 2010, when she accepted the role of Acting Director.  

As Medicaid Director, Ms. Weinberg oversees a $3.8 billion comprehensive health insurance program that covers one in four New Mexicans. The program is the largest purchaser of health care services in the state. In her brief tenure leading the program, Ms. Weinberg has placed an emphasis on the integration of physical and behavioral health services, and payment and delivery reform. She has recently begun work on redesigning the Medicaid program’s structure in order to reduce administrative costs, improve the quality of care, improve health outcomes, and ready the program for expanded enrollment starting in 2014.

Ms. Weinberg has spent most of her career in Medicaid. Prior to her work at the state, Ms. Weinberg spent 17 years with the New Mexico Medicaid fiscal agent. During her tenure there, Ms. Weinberg worked with providers and provider associations; planned and implemented projects to support new Medicaid program initiatives; ran the fiscal agent account; and worked on Medicaid Management Information System development, design and implementation.

Ms. Weinberg graduated summa cum laude from the University of New Mexico with a bachelor’s degree in political science.

Practicum Summary

Develop a risk-based payment methodology designed to promote the effective integration of physical and behavioral health care for AI/ANs.