Shantanu Agrawal is the deputy administrator for program integrity at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and has led efforts to reduce costs and eliminate wasteful spending, abuse and fraudulent activities across the Medicaid and Medicare healthcare programs since he took the role in 2014.
Agrawal also directs the agency-run Center for Program Integrity, where he previously served as chief medical officer from 2011 to 2013 and helped implement data transparency, analytics and payment models.
During that time, he also managed partnership between private payers and CMS.
Before he joined the agency, Agrawal held a management consultant role at McKinsey & Co. and worked with healthcare organizations, hospitals and biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms to help them develop strategies for care delivery.
He has contributed articles to various medical journals and delivered presentations on healthcare cost and policy issues.
Agrawal is currently also an assistant professor for emergency medicine at Medstar Health‘s Washington Hospital Center and a fellow at the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biomedical ethics from Brown University and a master’s degree in social and political sciences from Cambridge University.
He completed his medical education at Cornell University.