Kimberly Brandt

Operating Advisor

Kimberly Brandt is an Operating Advisor at Enhanced Healthcare Partners. Ms. Brandt serves on the Board of NeuroPsychiatric Hospitals. She is a Partner in the Washington, D.C. based policy firm Tarplin, Downs & Young, LLC where she advises the firm’s clients on a wide range of healthcare regulatory, enforcement and policy issues.

Prior to her current private sector roles, she served as Principal Deputy Administrator for Operations and Policy of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In that role she supported the Administrator in overseeing all activities necessary for the operation and management of the CMS budget, beneficiaries and its programs, including Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Ms. Brandt served as Chief Oversight Counsel and General Counsel on the staff of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee from January 2011 – August 2017.  Before joining the Finance Committee staff, she was a Senior Counsel at Alston & Bird in Washington, D.C. Her previous government service includes serving for seven years as the CMS Director of the Medicare Program Integrity Group. Prior to her first tenure at CMS, she worked for five years at the HHS Office of Inspector General as a Senior Counsel and Director of External Affairs.