Washington: Indian-American health policy expert Dr. Meena Seshamani, who led the Biden-Harris transition Health and Human Services (HHS) agency review team, has been appointed as director US Center for Medicare.
Seshamani, 43, will lead the center’s efforts in serving people 65 years of age or older, people with disabilities and end-stage kidney disease who depend on Medicare coverage.
Dr. Seshamani’s position as deputy administrator and director of the Center for Medicare began on July 6.
“Dr. Meena Seshamani brings her diverse background to CMS as a health care executive, health economist, physician and health policy expert,” said CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-Lasur.
“Providing quality health care to those who rely on Medicare and advancing health equity as we do is a priority for CMS. I am pleased to say that Dr. Seshamani takes his unique approach to this. will bring about how health policy affects the real lives of patients in her leadership role as deputy administrator and director of the Centers for Medicare,” she said.
Seshamani most recently served as Vice President of Clinical Care Transformation at MedStar Health, where he conceptualized, designed and implemented population health and value-based care initiatives and served as a senior health system for 10 hospital, 300+ outpatient care sites. Worked on leadership said in a media release.
The care models and service lines led by him, including community health, geriatric and palliative care, have been recognized nationally by the Institute for Health Reform and others.
She also cared for patients as an assistant professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Dr. Seshamani also brings decades of policy experience to her role, including most recently leading the Biden-Harris transition HHS agency review team.
Prior to Medstar Health, she was the director of health improvement office On U.S. Department of Health and Human Serviceswhere he strategized and led the implementation of the Affordable Care Act across the department, including coverage policy, delivery system reform and public health policy, the statement said.
He did his BA with Honors in Business Economics from Brown University, and his MD from there. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and his Ph.D. in health economics from University of Oxfordwhere she was a Marshall Scholar.
He completed his residency training in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and practices as a head and neck surgeon at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco.
Seshamani, 43, will lead the center’s efforts in serving people 65 years of age or older, people with disabilities and end-stage kidney disease who depend on Medicare coverage.
Dr. Seshamani’s position as deputy administrator and director of the Center for Medicare began on July 6.
“Dr. Meena Seshamani brings her diverse background to CMS as a health care executive, health economist, physician and health policy expert,” said CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-Lasur.
“Providing quality health care to those who rely on Medicare and advancing health equity as we do is a priority for CMS. I am pleased to say that Dr. Seshamani takes his unique approach to this. will bring about how health policy affects the real lives of patients in her leadership role as deputy administrator and director of the Centers for Medicare,” she said.
Seshamani most recently served as Vice President of Clinical Care Transformation at MedStar Health, where he conceptualized, designed and implemented population health and value-based care initiatives and served as a senior health system for 10 hospital, 300+ outpatient care sites. Worked on leadership said in a media release.
The care models and service lines led by him, including community health, geriatric and palliative care, have been recognized nationally by the Institute for Health Reform and others.
She also cared for patients as an assistant professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Dr. Seshamani also brings decades of policy experience to her role, including most recently leading the Biden-Harris transition HHS agency review team.
Prior to Medstar Health, she was the director of health improvement office On U.S. Department of Health and Human Serviceswhere he strategized and led the implementation of the Affordable Care Act across the department, including coverage policy, delivery system reform and public health policy, the statement said.
He did his BA with Honors in Business Economics from Brown University, and his MD from there. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and his Ph.D. in health economics from University of Oxfordwhere she was a Marshall Scholar.
He completed his residency training in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and practices as a head and neck surgeon at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco.
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