Ms. Leidl has over 28 years of broad-based experience working with major healthcare providers and regulators on all aspects of compliance and quality of care. She has been integrally involved in insurance and health plan investigations and audits that have reshaped the policies that regulate managed care in California and across the nation.

Ms. Leidl founded Managed Health Unlimited (MHU) in 1995, assembling a multidisciplinary team of specialists with expertise in managed care best practices and systems evaluation. As a hands-on president, she actively participates in audits and investigations that reshape policies regulating the healthcare industry. She has co-authored definitive technical assistance guides and developed project-specific tools that delineate the criteria and processes for healthcare audits and serve as standards for industry reviews.

Prior to founding her firm, Ms. Leidl consulted for the Office of Managed Care of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) – now the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) – as a reviewer during HCFA’s investigative and monitoring activities at federally-contracted health maintenance organizations (HMOs) across the nation. She participated in a national study, the Community Quality Index, conducted by the Rand Corporation, and has served as project manager and technical advisor in the development of a managed care software package that integrated medical and social benefits for a California social HMO.  She is a former NCQA-certified HEDIS compliance auditor and participated extensively in HEDIS health plan audits. She has also worked for major health plans, including AETNA, Blue Shield of California, and SCAN.

Ms. Leidl is a Diplomate of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, and a certified case manager. She earned her B.S. in nursing from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines and completed management courses at the University of California Los Angeles