Tamyra Garcia

Tamyra Garcia, MPH is the Deputy Director of Operations for the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Tamyra works alongside Senior Executives, supporting workforce and business functions for an organization with over 800 staff and a multi-billion-dollar budget. Mrs. Garcia is responsible for cultivating the organizational infrastructure necessary to improve safety, quality, and coverage across the healthcare continuum. She enjoys working alongside an extremely talented interdisciplinary workforce to meet CCSQ priorities.   

Tamyra comes into this acting role with over 20 consecutive years of public service. Her skills offer a unique combination of data analytics, policy development, and operations. In her role as Deputy Director of the Quality Measurement and Value Based Incentives Group, she was responsible for executing programs and policies that leverage quality measures and value-based incentive programs in hospitals, dialysis facilities, nursing homes, psychiatric facilities, and physician offices to promote optimal healthcare across the nation. 

Her public health and policy expertise vary in scope. Prior to joining CMS, she collaborated with internationally non-governmental organizations to examine healthcare quality and worked as an Epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

Tamyra is a former HHS Emerging Leader Fellow who graduated from Spelman College and obtained her master’s in public health with a focus in Epidemiology, from Columbia University. She is passionate about improving healthcare, establishing positive work environments, and caring for her loving family.