Anthony Polizzi is the Chief Patient Experience and Innovation Officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and a Digital Services Expert at the U.S. Digital Service within the White House, a dual role that sits at the intersection of federal health policy and modern technology delivery.
At CMS, he leads the agency's strategy to transform the beneficiary experience, overseeing the Health Technology Ecosystem, ClinicalAI, and a broad portfolio of interoperability initiatives that are reshaping how patients, providers, and payers exchange health information at scale.
Before joining the federal government, Anthony was part of the founding teams of two successful healthcare startups focused on operations, technology enablement, and business growth, giving him firsthand experience with the operational realities that health IT policy has to work in the real world. Anthony is educated from the Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Penn State, with academic and professional focus on the intersection of healthcare, technology, operations, and innovation.
Anthony is known for his ability to convene diverse stakeholders, including providers, payers, EHR vendors, technology companies, and patient advocates, and move them from commitment to delivery. The Health Technology Ecosystem is the proof: open standards, shared participation conditions, and a community that built together, on time, at scale.