Rhoda Abrams is Director of the Center for Health Services Financing and Managed Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service in the Department of Health and Human Services. She has more than 25 years of Public Health Service experience in policy and program development in federal managed care programs, including funding of new HMOs strategic planning and evaluation of health care systems. Ms. Abrams has worked closely with the managed care industry, including HMOs and PPOs, and has assisted providers for underserved populations in entering the managed care system.

As Director of the Center for Health Services Financing and Managed Care,
Ms. Abrams is responsible for the development of managed care policy for the agency and works with federal agencies as well as national and state organizations on managed care issues related to policy, public health and at-risk populations. She also directs the development of managed care training programs for the Agency for approximately 700 federally qualified community and migrant health centers, state and local health departments, AIDS care providers and rural health clinics, Maternal and Child Health programs and other HRSA funded programs.

During her career in the Public Health Service, Ms. Abrams has served as Director of HMO legislation and Director of HMO Development. She was also Director of the Office of Policy Development for the Bureau of Primary Health Care developing policy to implement legislation linking peer review decisions to Medicare and Medicaid payments.

Ms. Abrams received a bachelor's degree from Boston University and an MBA from Loyola College.