Andy Schneider

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Andy Schneider

Andy Schneider is a Research Professor of the Practice at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy. Schneider has over 40 years of experience with the Medicaid program as a Congressional staffer, Executive Branch employee, private consultant, and public interest attorney. Most recently, he served under the Obama Administration as a Senior Advisor at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), where he focused on program integrity issues in Medicaid. He joined the Center for Children and Families in March of 2017. Andy has written extensively on Medicaid issues and led the development of the Medicaid Resource Book (2002) for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Please contact Cathy Hope (catherine.hope@georgetown.edu) with media queries or to set up an interview with Andy.

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The CMS Administrator Talks to Medicaid Directors About Humility in Government

Two years ago, CMS Administrator Seema Verma gave a major policy address to the  National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD) at which she outlined her agenda for Medicaid.  She invoked Hubert Humphrey and Lyndon Johnson on the moral imperative of meeting the needs of the poor.  She promised to give states more flexibility by, among other […]

Medicaid Managed Care Transparency: A Leap Forward

The California Health Care Foundation has just issued a path-breaking report that marks an important step forward on the road to full transparency about Medicaid managed care.  The report, prepared by Dr. Andrew Bindman and his colleagues at the University of California at San Francisco, examines the performance of managed care plans (MCPs) in Medi-Cal […]

Tennessee Medicaid “Block Grant” Proposal: Imagination Gone Wild

The Tennessee Medicaid agency has posted a proposal to convert a portion of its federal funding to a “block grant.”  The proposal, which responds to a directive from the Tennessee State Legislature, takes the form of an amendment to the state’s current section 1115 demonstration, which expires at the end of June 2021. The state […]

The Future of Coverage for American Indian and Alaska Native Children

As you may possibly have heard by now, the uninsured rate for children is heading in the wrong direction.  It increased from 5 percent in 2017 to 5.5 percent in 2018, which translates into an additional 425,000 uninsured children.  Among the children whom this trend likely affects are American Indians and Alaska Natives, but we […]