Date: January 15, 2025
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm CST
Online Live Webinar via Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Tanya Raggio-Ashley, MD, MPH, FAAP
Acting Chief Medical Officer (Regions 1 & 2) for CMS and CCSQ.
"2025 CMS Update"
CMS will provide relevant regulation updates and announcements, as well as a review of CMS priorities and progress.
BIO:
Dr. Raggio has dedicated her career to providing high quality care to all populations and persons, in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner, ending health care disparities and creating health equity. Dr. Raggio has held leadership positions in community health centers, public hospitals, academia, and private practice. She is also researcher and author.
Dr Raggio is currently on detail as the acting chief medical officer for Regions 1 and 2 for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ). She has collaborated with her CMS colleagues on a wide variety of issues such as urban and rural health, caregiving, maternal health, children and adults with special health care needs, the Affordable Care Act, the Marketplace, Medicaid expansion, Medicare enrollment, EMTALA, quality and more.
Prior to her detail Dr. Raggio served as senior medical officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resource Services Administration, Region 2. She also held the positions of HRSA’s Chief Medical Officer, Director of the Office of Minority Health, Division Director of Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry and in the Maternal Child Health Bureau.
Dr. Raggio has worked all over the country, including the United States territories, community, migrant, rural, homeless, school base and public housing health centers, Ryan White HIV AIDS programs. She has lead programs such as Healthy Start to decrease maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. She has worked collaboratively to address the COVID19 pandemic with CHCs, CBOS and FBOs and many others.
Dr. Raggio is board certified in pediatrics and preventive medicine. She received her bachelor's and medical degrees from Rutgers University and Rutgers Medical School. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, and a fellowship in cardiovascular epidemiology and preventive medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. She continues to mentor a wide range of students and professionals.
Dr. Pagán completed courses at the New York Theological Seminary and the Semanario Teológico in Puerto Rico. She enjoys serving the community along with her husband, the Rev. Dr. Willard W.C. Ashley. They reside in Teaneck NJ with their therapy dog Serafina.