Speaker's Profile

Adam Stoler is a health policy strategist and behavioral health financing expert with more than fifteen years of experience designing, implementing, and financing large-scale behavioral health and substance use disorder (SUD) systems. His work has focused on building sustainable funding models, expanding access to treatment, and helping state governments, health systems, and providers navigate complex policy and reimbursement environments.Adam is the Founder and CEO of Aligned Solutions, a consulting and technology firm that works with healthcare organizations, state agencies, and behavioral health providers to navigate policy change, develop sustainable funding strategies, and implement complex health system initiatives. In this role, advising clients on issues related to Medicaid policy, behavioral health financing, value-based care models, and public health system transformation. His mission is to help achieve long-term behavioral health financial sustainabiliy through integrating government policy, payer, and behavioral health finance expertise.Prior to founding Aligned Solutions, Adam held a finance and policy role at Mass General Brigham, one of the nation’s largest integrated health systems, where he assessed emerging federal and state healthcare policy, analyzed financial impacts for the system’s hospitals, and advised executive leadership on strategic responses. His work included redesigning internal processes related to Medicare payment policy affecting approximately $1.8 billion in annual revenue across the system’s hospitals.Before joining Mass General Brigham, Adam spent nearly four years in a leadership role at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, working within the Office of Medicaid (MassHealth) in the Office of Behavioral Health as Direction of Addiction Services. Adam played a central role in one of the most significant transformations of behavioral health financing in Massachusetts during the height of the opioid epidemic. As part of the state’s Section 1115 demonstration waiver, he helped lead the expansion of Medicaid coverage for residential addiction treatment and recovery support services. In addition to program design and financing, he oversaw major investments in data infrastructure to support population health management and policy analysis. He led the redesign of MassHealth’s administrative claims analytics environment for Substance Use Disorders to enable more actionable insights into behavioral health utilization, outcomes, and disparities.