Alina Czekai

Director, Office of Rural Health Transformation (ORHT)
Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Alina M. Czekai, MPH is the Director of the Office of Rural Health Transformation at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. With a background in government health policy at CMS and leadership experience at various services and technology healthcare startups, Alina bridges the gap between government and industry. During her time as a Senior Advisor at CMS under Administrator Seema Verma, Alina co-developed the CMS Innovation Center’s first ever value-based rural care model was responsible for leading the agency’s external affairs strategy around the COVID-19 public health emergency. Alina comes from a line of generational farmers in Upstate New York and is a champion for advocating for improvements in rural health delivery systems.