Graduate School
Harvard Medical School

Undergraduate School
Harvard University

Mentor
Kevin Sullivan, Babson College and Rappaport Institute Advisory Board Member

Agency
MassHealth

Supervisor
Ishan Shrestha, Director of Strategy and Special Projects

Description of Fellowship
Vishal spent his summer working for MassHealth’s Strategy Team, designing policy reforms to restructure care and payment models for long-term care providers and services, which has annual spend of $1.6B. Many of these reforms were aimed to improve the quality of care for seniors throughout the Commonwealth over the next five years. He was also responsible for preliminary modeling to determine the costs of these policy solutions for MassHealth. While designing these reforms, he also collaborated with leadership from the Office of Long Term Services and Supports as well the Executive Office of Elder Affairs.