WT Power Breakfast: Health IT: Trends, Opportunities and Market Leaders

Kim Brandt is CMS’ Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer. Previously, she was a Partner at the Washington, D.C.-based policy firm Tarplin, Downs & Young, LLC, where she provided strategic advice on a broad array of healthcare regulatory, enforcement, and policy matters. She also served as an Advisor to the private equity firm Enhanced Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm focused on healthcare, and held board positions at two of its portfolio companies.

Kim has held multiple senior executive positions in government, including serving as Principal Deputy Administrator for Policy and Operations during the first Trump Administration. In that role she oversaw all activities necessary for the operation and management of CMS’ $1.4T budget in addition to leading efforts to reform the Physician Self-referral regulations and develop the first CMS interoperability rule. Kim previously served as Chief Oversight Counsel and General Counsel on the staff of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee where she led multiple healthcare investigations, the investigation into IRS political targeting and oversaw the political nominations process. Before joining the Finance Committee staff, Kim was a Senior Counsel at Alston & Bird in Washington, D.C. Her previous government service includes serving as the CMS Director of the Medicare Program Integrity Group and working at the HHS Office of Inspector General as a Senior Counsel and Director of External Affairs. Kim has a JD with a concentration in health law and an MA in legislative affairs.

Mr. James A. Perkins serves as the Acting Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Medical Digital Solutions at the Defense Health Agency, leading the stand-up of PAE Medical Digital Solutions and the execution of its charter. He serves as the Milestone Decision Authority for Acquisition Category/ Business System Category/Services Category II programs and existing ACAT/BCAT/SCAT III programs. Mr. Perkins leads the strategic alignment of the Medical Digital Solutions portfolio, overseeing its products, programs, contracts, and organizational structure. He is directly responsible for establishing the permanent PAE framework, streamlining acquisition governance, chartering new program managers for Acquisition Programs within his MDA authority, and coordinating matrixed support to optimize the fielding of medical digital products and services across the DHA.

Larry Young is currently the acting Deputy Director within the Center for Program Integrity. His previous roles at CMS include Deputy CFO, Deputy Director of CMS’ Office of Financial Management (OFM), and Group Director for the Medicare Contractor Management Group (MCMG). During his time in MCMG he oversaw the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) responsible for processing in excess of 1.2 billion claims and over $450 billion in Medicare benefit payments each year.   He has over 35 years of experience working in the Medicare FFS and managed care programs in a variety of different capacities within CMS working as a DME MAC Project Officer, Program Safeguard Contractor Project Officer, and as a Medicare Compliance Officer for Kaiser Permanente.  He has a B.A. from Austin College and M.A. from T.C.U. with a concentration in American Literature, is married with three grandchildren, and is pre-disposed to play golf when not working.