Craig D. Schneider, Ph.D.

Craig Schneider is Director of Healthcare Policy with the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. He is responsible for the one dozen discussion Forums that the Consortium administers to enhance health information exchange, as well as educational events, data products, and collaborative projects that help achieve the Consortium’s mission. Prior to joining MHDC, Craig worked for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Boston Regional Office for 14 years. His most recent position was Manager of the Medicare Provider Reimbursement Branch, overseeing a staff of 14 people who address reimbursement policy, Medicare Modernization Act implementation, and information technology issues for providers and Medicare’s claims processing contractors in the six New England states. Craig was also the CMS liaison to the Bridges to Excellence and Prometheus pay-for-performance initiatives. Craig’s previous positions with CMS include serving as: Project Officer for three Quality Improvement Organizations and one End-Stage Renal Disease Network; Contractor Manager for the National Heritage Insurance Company; Medicare Outreach Coordinator to educate the public in New England about Medicare and the Medicare+Choice program; Special Assistant to the Director of CMS’s Center for Beneficiary Services in Baltimore during summer 1998; Special Assistant to the Boston Regional Administrator; and a Fellow on Senator Kennedy’s staff in fall 1993 working on the Health Security Act. Craig received a doctoral degree in Health Policy in 2004 from the Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy, and has a Master of Business Administration degree, with a concentration in Public Management, from Boston University.