Kristin Lemos

Kristin Lemos brings over 20 years of experience in Medicaid and CHIP data analytics, research, and program evaluation. She has advised federal and state clients on Medicaid and CHIP data reporting and data quality and has provided extensive technical assistance to states in these areas.

In recent years, Lemos has played a key role in supporting the Centers for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) with data reporting, monitoring, and quality improvement throughout the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, the subsequent unwinding period, and the transition back to standard operations. She has also led several multi-year Medicaid research and evaluation initiatives. Notably, she directed the development of two Congressionally mandated reports on the Medicaid non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) benefit, using T-MSIS data to provide insight into beneficiary utilization and to inform policy recommendations. Under contract with the CMS Innovation Center, she oversaw impact evaluations of two Health Care Innovation Awards Round 2 interventions—one aimed at improving outcomes for Medicaid-enrolled children with medical complexity, and the other focused on increasing access to oral health services in primary care. Additionally, she led efforts under the Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) contract to develop a comprehensive series of chartbooks and issue briefs, highlighting trends in Medicaid and CHIP enrollment, service utilization, and expenditures. She has long supported the CMS Division of Data and Business Analytics in evaluating the quality of Medicaid & CHIP Performance Indicator data, leading technical assistance efforts to improve state data quality. She now serves as an advisor to that team.

Her work has been published in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and presented at the annual AcademyHealth conference. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Dartmouth College and a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Health Policy from Emory University.