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Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Time: 12:15pm-1:15pm

CMS Medicare Updates 2025

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Regional Chief Medical Officer Ashby Wolfe, M.D will provide an update on CMS policy for the 2025 calendar year. Information presented is to practicing clinicians, including an overview of the updates to the 2025 Physician Fee Schedule.

Presenter:
Ashby Wolfe, MD, MPP, MPH, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Regional Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Ashby Wolfe is a board-certified family physician and serves as Regional Chief Medical Officer for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) offices in San Francisco, Seattle and Denver. Dr. Wolfe has served as Regional Chief Medical Officer since 2015, focusing on the implementation of Medicare and Medicaid policy across the Western States and the Pacific Territories (AK, ID, OR, WA, AZ, CA, HI, NV, CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). As a senior medical advisor for CMS programs in the Western United States, she provides clinical expertise to the divisions of Medicare and Medicaid payment policy, quality improvement, survey operations, contracted health plans and serves as the principle liaison with the clinical community.

Dr. Wolfe completed her medical degree at Stony Brook School of Medicine in New York, and her residency training at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California. She also holds a Masters of Public Policy and a Masters of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Wolfe has practiced broad-scope family medicine in academic, integrated and community clinical settings over the course of her career and holds medical licenses in both the State of California and the State of Washington. She has a particular interest in improving the quality and equity of care for underserved and low-income populations. She has published multiple articles on Medicare and Medicaid policy, and is a contributing author of the public health text, Prevention is Primary (Jossey-Bass).