Priya Chidambaram is a senior policy manager with KFF’s Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured. In this role, she analyzes policy issues related to Medicaid long-term services and supports, nursing facilities, and dually eligible enrollees. She also conducts quantitative analyses of Medicaid claims and expenditure data, along with other data sources. Prior to joining KFF, she was a senior research analyst at the Lewin Group, where she analyzed health-care claims data and calculated Medicaid payment error rates.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University in global public health and applied psychology, and a Master of Science in Public Health degree in health policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.