As the Director of Healthcare Innovation at the McSilver Institute, Meaghan Baier manages a portfolio of contracts consisting of ongoing projects and partnerships supporting healthcare transformation. Baier directs the day-to-day operations of the Center for Workforce Excellence (CWE), a technical assistance center dedicated to evidence based practice implementation across NYS. Baier also leads the NYC-based TTAC project which focuses on supporting and enhancing the capacity of behavioral health care providers serving young children and families and the perinatal population through training, technical assistance, and resources. She continues to support the MCTAC project through work focused on payment reform, organizational readiness, and the design and implementation of technical assistance and resources tailored specifically to the needs of partners and stakeholders.

In addition to these initiatives, Baier manages and directs projects based in North Carolina and other states focusing on the development and implementation of organizational self-assessments, care management and value based payment initiatives. Baier is also a guest lecturer at Columbia School of Social Work.

Baier was previously the Assistant Director of Strategic Operations at McSilver leading the Managed Care Technical Assistance Center (MCTAC), and prior to her time at NYU, she was the Project Manager in the Department of Innovations at Institute for Community Living (ICL), one of MCTAC’s provider partners. In this role, she was responsible for the coordination and management of MCTAC and Community Technical Assistance Center of New York (CTAC) deliverables, including the management of various CTAC business offerings. Previously Baier has served as an adjunct at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work and Touro College’s School of Social Work.

Prior to graduating from Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work with her MSW, Baier worked in southeast Alaska supporting survivors of intimate partner violence.