About
Barbara Eyman is a Principal and founder of Eyman Partners in Washington, DC. She has represented clients on health care law and policy matters since 1991, with a practice focused on Medicaid, Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and Affordable Care Act initiatives. Her clients include health care providers and associations that need strategic, regulatory, reimbursement, and policy guidance within complex federal and state programs.
Eyman earned a JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1990, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and a BA summa cum laude from Middlebury College in 1982. She also clerked for Justice Ruth I. Abrams of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Her legal training and clerkship support detailed work involving statutes, regulations, administrative policy, and health care financing.
Eyman assists provider clients with Medicaid funding programs, including disproportionate share hospital payments, upper payment limit programs, graduate medical education payments, waiver-based mechanisms, and supplemental physician payments. She works with state Medicaid agencies and officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and advises on Medicare reimbursement, including DSH, GME, and Federally Qualified Health Center issues. She also advocates before Congress and federal agencies for association clients.
Barbara Eyman founded Eyman Partners in 2011 after practicing as a partner at Ropes & Gray. She has served as Washington Counsel for America’s Essential Hospitals throughout her career, giving her sustained exposure to federal health care policymaking and provider concerns. Her work has been recognized by Chambers USA and Super Lawyers, and she brings a long-term policy perspective to reimbursement, compliance, and strategic health care matters.
Law Office Affiliations
- Principal, Eyman Partners
- Member, District of Columbia Bar
Licensed State
- District of Columbia
Awards & Badges
- Administrative
- Appeals
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