Regional Chief Medical Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service Department of Health and Human Services
Dr. Ashby Wolfe is a board-certified family physician and serves as Regional Chief Medical Officer for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Based in the CMS Seattle and San Francisco offices, Dr. Wolfe has served as a CMS Regional Chief Medical Officer since 2015, supporting the implementation of Medicare and Medicaid policy across the Western United States and the Pacific Territories (AK, ID, OR, WA, AZ, CA, HI, NV, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). As a senior medical advisor for CMS, she also focuses on cross-cutting implementation of agency initiatives, providing clinical expertise around payment policy, quality improvement, survey operations, contracted health plans and serving as a principal liaison with the clinical community across the West and Outer Pacific. Dr. Wolfe continues to lead agency-wide work on the Acute Hospital Care at Home Initiative, as extended by Congress, following the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.
