Claudia Jennings

Claudia has experience in birth center billing and practice management. She brings 6 years of experience at a large freestanding birth center with two locations, 3 of which she served as Administrative Director and more recently 3 years as a consultant for payors, hospitals, birth centers, and state Medicaid agencies. Claudia specializes in taking a team-based approach to creatively solve problems with all the stakeholders at the table. Claudia also brings unique experience in innovative care payment models specific to the maternity episode.

Claudia served as a subject matter expert for the AABC white paper Getting Payment Right: Unlocking High-Value Care Through Appropriate Birth Center Reimbursement, and co-author of The Hospital Guide to Integrating the Freestanding Birth Center Model. She currently serves as a member of the Industry Relations and Government Affairs Committees of the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC).

Amy Romano, MBA, MSN, CNM, FACNM

With a clinical background as a nurse-midwife, Amy has spent her career working to improve perinatal and reproductive care and has particular expertise in primary prevention of cesarean and preterm birth, midwife-led and collaborative care models, shared decision making, and patient engagement.

Prior to founding PMC, Amy led the development and implementation of clinical, wellness, and quality management programs at Baby+Company, including designing and implementing joint quality efforts with collaborating hospitals and leading a complete redesign of the prenatal and preconception care models across 6 practice sites, integrating standardized education, group visits, structured care planning visits, health coaching, point-of-care ultrasound, and other innovations.

She has also previously developed quality improvement toolkits, patient engagement programs, and clinical practice resources with organizations including the American College of Nurse-Midwives, the Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement, Maternity Neighborhood, Childbirth Connection, the American Association of Birth Centers, Jacaranda Health, and Lamaze International.