Gabe Roberts is a health care executive, strategic thinker, and advisor based in Nashville, Tennessee.
He has served in numerous roles in the health care sector for nearly two decades. His professional experience as a CPA, health care lawyer, and government policy maker and regulator have intersected to give him unique perspectives on how innovation can be harnessed, operationalized, and deployed to answer some of society’s biggest health care problems.
Roberts serves on the Board of Directors and Advisory Boards of a number of private companies, and, since 2020, he has served as the CEO of the Roberts Consulting Group. RCG is a strategic advisory firm that assists clients across the country who find themselves navigating (or investing in businesses that are navigating) the intersection of public policy, government regulation, and business development and growth strategies. Prior to launching the firm, Roberts served as the Governor-appointed Medicaid Director for Tennessee as well as serving in other executive roles within the agency throughout his tenure. During that time, he served as a member of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Medicaid Directors, he was selected by the Center for Health Care Strategies as a Medicaid Leadership Institute Fellow, and was named a Fellow with the Nashville Health Care Council. While at the Medicaid agency, he was responsible for designing, implementing, and growing nation-leading innovations for Tennessee, including one-of-a-kind Section 1115 waivers, comprehensive programs to meet the needs of children with complex medical conditions, primary care and mental health value-based care initiatives, home and community based long term services and supports programs for the elderly and disabled and for those with intellectual or developmental disabilities, strategies to address substance use and opioid use disorders, and programs to address the maternal and infant mortality crisis. While driving these policy and programmatic innovations, he also designed waiver authorities that, since CMS approval, have secured long-term fiscal sustainability of Tennessee’s Medicaid program.
Prior to serving the state of Tennessee, Roberts was engaged in the private practice of corporate and health care law at the Nashville law firm Sherrard, Roe, Voigt & Harbison, and, as an attorney, served for seven years as a Governor-appointed member of the 11-member State Board of Accountancy. Prior to law school, he worked as Certified Public Accountant with Ernst & Young. Roberts holds a law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he served as a member of The Vanderbilt Law Review, and Economics and Accountancy degrees from the University of Mississippi, where he was inducted into that University’s Hall of Fame.