Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Leadership
Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator
Dr. Oz serves as the 17th Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services under HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr., and President Donald Trump. He is a Professor Emeritus at NY Presbyterian-Columbia Medical Center and has won nine Daytime Emmy® Awards.
Dr. Oz received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and obtained a joint MD and MBA from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School.
He is the author of eight New York Times Best Sellers and was a founder of a lifestyle magazine with a focus that extends well beyond health and wellness to relationships, beauty, food and home.
In 2003, Dr. Oz founded a national non-profit which emulates the Peace Corps by putting energetic recent college graduates into high schools around the country to teach diet, fitness and mental resilience. He has raised $100 million to help 3 million teens with this nationwide program.
In addition to belonging to every major professional society for heart surgeons, Dr. Oz has been named Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Forbes’ most influential celebrity, Esquire magazine’s 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century, Harvard’s 100 Most Influential Alumni, AARP 50 Influential People Over 50, and received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star.
Dr. Oz resides in Pennsylvania with his wife Lisa Oz and is a proud father of four and grandfather of five children.
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Centers for Medicaid & CHIP Services Leadership
Daniel (Dan) Brillman, Deputy Administrator and Director
Dan is the Director of Medicaid and CHIP and Deputy Administrator at CMS, with extensive experience in health care technology, reform, and care delivery models, advancing cross-sector coordination, data interoperability, and analytical insights. Previously, Dan was the CEO and Co-Founder of Unite Us, the nation’s largest outcome focused technology infrastructure that connects health care, government, and community-based services to coordinate care in real-time for millions of Americans. Dan is also a Military Officer of the Air Force Reserves, serving for over 17 years and completed multiple combat deployments as a pilot in Afghanistan and Iraq, for which he earned multiple air medals and bronze campaign stars. Dan continues to serve as a Major, with assignments at Defense innovation Unit (DIU) as a Joint Strategic Liaison Officer and as an Admissions Liaison Officer.
Dan earned a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School and a BA in Political Science from Yale University, and began his career in consulting and finance as well as entrepreneurial work with Scout Ventures, a venture capital firm in New York City.
Dan resides in Washington, DC, and Philadelphia with his wife and two children.
Caprice Knapp, Principal Deputy Director
Dr. Caprice Knapp is the Principal Deputy of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS), where she serves as the Center’s senior policy and operational executive overseeing the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provides coverage for nearly 80 million Americans.
A former member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers, Knapp is a health economist with more than 20 years’ experience working on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), in the private sector, state and federal policymaking, and academics.
In the private sector, she was the federal policy director for Molina Healthcare, Inc. as well as a Managing Director at Health Management Associates. In the academic realm, she was an associate professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy at the University of Florida, conducting external quality review activities for Texas and Florida Medicaid and CHIP programs as well as maternal and child health research. At The Pennsylvania State University, she led the university’s Global Health efforts while teaching in the Department of Health Policy and Administration. In the policymaking arena, she worked in the Governor’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting in Colorado and the U.S. House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy fellow. She was the North Dakota Medicaid director from 2019 to 2022.
Caprice’s career has been focused on vulnerable populations, delivery system reform, and global health. Examples of her funded research topics include an assessment of Florida’s Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Grant; an evaluation of fertility-preservation decision making for adolescent girls with cancer; outcomes of concurrent models of pediatric palliative care; and an assessment of the quality, patient experiences, and costs of health and dental plans for children in Florida. Her global health projects also focus on maternal and child health and have been conducted in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America.
At the University of Florida, Caprice earned her doctorate in economics and completed postdoctoral training in health services research. She has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications, 60 government reports, and two books.
Anne Marie Costello, Deputy Director
Anne Marie Costello serves as Deputy Director for the Center for Medicaid & CHIP Services (CMCS) within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Previously, Anne Marie was Director of the Children and Adults Health Programs Group (CAHPG) in CMCS. There, she directed CMS’s work on eligibility, enrollment, quality of care measurement, and quality improvement initiatives for children and adults served by Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Basic Health Program (BHP), leading the development of national policy for low-income children and adults enrolled in Medicaid, CHIP, and BHP. She led the implementation of quality improvement initiatives on maternal and child health, children’s oral health and prevention, and special initiatives related to the Agency’s response to the Zika virus and the Flint water crisis.
Anne Marie is a nationally recognized expert on health policy and has extensive experience implementing Medicaid, CHIP, and BHP policies and operations at the federal and state levels. Before joining CMS, she held a number of leadership positions in state and local government and in the nonprofit sector. Anne Marie also served as the Director of the Bureau of Compliance at the New York State Department of Health. She was responsible for oversight of Medicaid policy implementation in New York City and implementation of statewide outreach and enrollment initiatives.
Anne Marie holds a Master of Public Health degree from Hunter College.
Sara Vitolo, Deputy Director
Sara Vitolo serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Since joining CMCS in March 2022, Sara has led work across CMCS to strengthen the Medicaid and CHIP programs. In addition to promoting excellence in all aspects of CMCS and Medicaid operations, Sara guides the center to achieve its proactive policy priorities related to Medicaid managed care, data and systems, and program integrity. Prior to CMCS, Sara was Deputy Director of the Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office (MMCO) at CMS, working to improve coordination between the Federal Government and states and enhance outcomes for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Before joining MMCO in 2015, Sara worked at the White House Office of Management and Budget in the Medicare Branch of the Health Division, and at CMS on Medicare payment and rate-setting policy.
Prior to federal service, Sara helped strengthen global health programs at IntraHealth International and taught science at an elementary school in Boston as an AmeriCorps member. Sara received a B.S. in biology from Stonehill College and an M.S.P.H. in health policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.