CMS Leadership

Cindy Mann, J.D. has served as the Director of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) since June 2009. As CMS Deputy Administrator and Director of CMCS, Ms. Mann is responsible for the development and implementation of national policies governing Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), including working closely with States.

Prior to her return to CMS in 2009, Cindy served as a research professor at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute and was the Executive Director of the Center for Children and Families at the Institute. Her work at Georgetown focused on health coverage, financing, and access issues affecting low-income populations and States. Cindy served as Director of the Family and Children’s Health Programs Group in the CMS (then HCFA) Center for Medicaid and State Operations from 1999-2001, where she played a key role in implementing the SCHIP program and led the Center’s broader work on Medicaid policies affecting children and families. Before joining HCFA in 1999, Cindy directed the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' federal and State health policy work. She also has extensive State-level experience, having worked on health care, welfare, and public finance issues in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York.

Cindy holds a law degree from the New York University School of Law.

Deputy Director: Penny Thompson

Deputy Director: Julie Boughn