Julie Barnes is the Founder and CEO of Maverick Health Policy, a consulting firm located in the Washington, DC area. Maverick provides strategic advice to organizations that need guidance about federal health information policy. As a former policy analyst, health care litigator, and Capitol Hill staffer, Ms. Barnes informs business strategy and investment decisions about digital health and payment policy. She and her team offer expert analysis about interoperability, price transparency, data privacy, artificial intelligence, value-based care and related issues to traditional health care entities, technology companies and venture capital firms.

Prior to founding Maverick Health Policy, Ms. Barnes served as Vice President of Federal Strategy at Cambia Health Solutions, a Senior Advisor for Leavitt Partners, Director of Health Policy at two think tanks — the Bipartisan Policy Center and New America Foundation — and was an attorney at Crowell & Moring. While she was an attorney, Ms. Barnes was the long-time chairperson of the American Health Lawyers Association Health Reform Educational Task Force and Editor-in-Chief of a legal textbook on managed care.