Balancing Medicaid Costs, Access, and Member Experience with Nora Leibowitz
From Becker’s Payer Issues Podcast by Becker's Healthcare
May 8, 2026 · 10 min
About this episode
Nora Leibowitz discusses Medicaid costs, access, and member experience improvements at CareOregon.
This episode recorded live at the Becker’s Spring 2026 Payer Issues Roundtable features Nora Leibowitz, Chief Medicaid Program Officer, CareOregon. She discusses rising utilization and funding pressures, how CareOregon is streamlining operations to improve member and provider experience, and the role of data and AI in reducing friction and strengthening outcomes. In collaboration with Hippocratic AI .
People in this episode
Guest: Nora Leibowitz
Topics covered
- Medicaid
- healthcare costs
- member experience
- data
- AI
- operations
Keywords
- Medicaid
- CareOregon
- member experience
- data
- AI
- healthcare
- utilization
- funding
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CareOregon, Hippocratic AI
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