Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Stephanie Carlton is a healthcare innovator with unique experience across the dimensions of the U.S. health care economy - business, policy, academia, and clinical. She currently serves as Deputy Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. When a Partner at McKinsey & Company, Stephanie was a leader in McKinsey's SHaPE Practice with a deep focus on innovation and strategy. She also co-founded a place-based transformation with 20 community leaders to improve holistic health outcomes. Prior to McKinsey, she led Medicare Advantage and Medicaid issues on the US Senate Finance Committee (Republican staff) and worked as a labor & delivery nurse at Georgetown University Hospital. Stephanie guest lectures at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, served as a resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School IOP, and was on the business school faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. She has served on the boards of the Health Care Cost Institute, Ignite Health, and the University of Texas McCombs Alumni Association. Quick note: If you're interested in something CMS-related, please find me on CMS emails as I don't respond to LinkedIn messages.
Appointed by President Trump to serve as Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) through the initial phase of DOGE and until Dr Mehmet Oz was confirmed by the US Senate. Currently serves as Deputy CMS Administrator. Launched a in-depth strategic planning process for CMS, and oversee all policy, personnel, and operational issues for the Agency, with a particular focus on the CMS agenda for technology, innovation, and Medicaid.
Taught ecosystems of healthcare classes for MD-MBA and undergraduate students.