Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation

Amy Turner

Deputy Director for Policy for the Innovation Center

Amy Turner serves as Deputy Director for Policy for the Innovation Center. She brings over 25 years of experience in employee benefits, regulatory policy, and healthcare administration. Prior to joining the Innovation Center, Ms. Turner was the Deputy Director for Policy in CMS’s Center for Program Integrity, where she was responsible for preventing fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Marketplace. This work involved provider and supplier enrollment screening and oversight, medical review, data analytics to detect potential fraud, investigations, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid audits, and oversight of agents and brokers in the Marketplace. Ms. Turner began her career at the Department of Labor (DOL), where she led numerous HHS/DOL/Treasury health care regulatory teams, including serving as the ACA Implementation Lead for DOL and eventually Deputy Assistant Secretary at DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration. Ms. Turner has a JD from George Washington University Law School and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.