Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Boehler was appointed Director of the
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at the
United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in April 2018. While at HHS, Boehler also served as Senior Advisor for Value-based Transformation to Secretary
Alex Azar. While at CMMI, Boehler launched 16 payment models aimed at advancing the transition of the U.S. healthcare system from
fee-for-service to value-based payment. These included initiatives to support primary care physicians and to improve kidney care nationwide. During the COVID crisis, Boehler led teams focused on expanding testing, sourcing critical PPE, and ensuring that there were sufficient ventilators for the United States population (and ultimately helping emerging countries in need). Boehler was a founding board member of
Operation Warp Speed. On May 14, 2020, the president of the United States signed an executive order delegating Defense Production Act authorities to Boehler, underwriting the production of various vaccines under consideration in advance of the Food and Drug Administration's approval to expand domestic vaccine supply.
International Development Finance Corporation In July 2019, President Donald Trump nominated Boehler for the position of chief executive officer of the newly formed
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, and was confirmed by the
Senate. Under his tenure at the DFC, Boehler helped draft an executive order in response to COVID-19 that expanded the DFC to domestic projects—a break from its congressional mandate, which focused on funding projects in the
developing world. Under Boehler, the DFC and
EXIM signed letters of interest with Serbia and Kosovo to help finance projects identified under a U.S. brokered agreement to advance economic cooperation and development between Kosovo and Serbia. Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo prime minister Avdullah Hoti signed the agreement on September 4, 2020, in Washington. Boehler accompanied Ambassador
Zalmay Khalilzad to negotiate with the Taliban in a series of meetings held in Qatar touting the possibility of joint investment in Afghanistan through the
Qatar Fund for Development, and promoting a commitment to peace to prioritize Afghanistan's economic growth. Boehler met with heads of state in Vietnam and Indonesia to discuss investments in energy and infrastructure. He led the last US delegation to meet with State Counselor
Aung San Suu Kyi prior to her arrest and imprisonment by the Myanmar military on February 1, 2021. Boehler met with leaders of countries across the region, including the Caribbean, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Venezuelan opposition leader
Juan Guaidó. Colombian president
Iván Duque and Boehler drafted an economic plan addressing the growth of cocaine farming in Colombia. Boehler led negotiations with Ecuadorean president
Lenín Moreno resulting in a $3.5 billion lending agreement enabling prepayment of loans to China, in exchange for Ecuador excluding Chinese telecoms services and equipment providers from its 5G telecommunications networks. Boehler met in November 2019 with Ethiopia's prime minister, president, and finance ministers to discuss support of reform initiatives on the nation's developmental goals. Boehler was part of several delegations that traveled in 2020 and 2021 with
Jared Kushner to Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar that ultimately resulted in the
Abraham Accords, as well as the agreement to resolve the
Gulf Rift. Boehler was part of a high-level delegation to Israel and Morocco to discuss the
Israel–Morocco normalization agreement, as well as a delegation in October 2020 with Secretary of Treasury
Steven Mnuchin to Israel, Bahrain, and UAE to discuss economic cooperation under the Abraham Accords. == Post-government career ==