Marla is nationally recognized for her 20 years of experience advising stakeholders on healthcare payment and quality policy, particularly the Medicare Inpatient and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment Systems. She has extensive experience in payment system replication, designing complex reimbursement impact models, quality performance evaluation, Congressional Budget Office-style budget scores, and using large-scale administrative claims databases for descriptive analysis and publishable research.

Over the years, Marla has aided scores of medical device, pharmaceutical, and diagnostic manufacturers in maximizing reimbursement for their products. She has performed analytics and crafted responses to federal policy proposals for many major healthcare providers and manufacturer trade associations as they navigate regulatory changes.

Before joining McDermott+, Marla held positions at multiple healthcare consulting firms in roles where she led policy and reimbursement analytics. Her prior experience also includes serving as the principal research scientist in the advocacy office of Premier Inc., a group purchasing and healthcare solutions company. In this role, she incorporated qualitative input from the hospital community with findings from her quantitative analyses to help shape payment and quality policy.