Dorothy Teeter

Dorothy Teeter is the principal/owner of Teeter Health Strategies consultancy, specializing in value-based payment reform and related health system transformation. She has over 30 years of public and private health system leadership and executive experience.

Before establishing her consulting firm, Ms. Teeter was the director of the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA). In her role as agency director, she oversaw policy, programs and operations for HCA and administered an annual health care services budget of over $10 billion for both the Medicaid and the public employee programs. Ms. Teeter led the HCA’s nationally recognized approaches to value-based purchasing and population health reform, including the integration of physical and behavioral health services purchasing and care delivery and the design/startup funding for Washington state’s Accountable Communities of Health. As a member of the governor’s cabinet, she also served on the board of the Washington Health Benefits Exchange, led the Healthier Washington plan for statewide health system transformation and directed the successful implementation of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid’s expansion for Washington state.

Before the HCA, Ms. Teeter was senior advisor for policy and programs at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI); director and chief of health operations for Public Health — Seattle & King County, a major metropolitan public health department; a senior executive at Group Health Cooperative, where she designed and led its population-based quality of care improvement and care management strategies; and an administrator at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Ms. Teeter earned a master’s degree in health services administration from the University of Washington and is a member of the clinical faculty at the School of Public Health at the University of Washington.