Senior Medical Advisor, Office of the Administrator

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Marion is currently the Senior Medical Advisor in the Office of the Administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in Washington, DC. In this cross-cutting role within the agency, she works on policy creation, quality, and promoting transformation with value based care. Marion also is involved in developing value-based payment and service delivery models in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center, with special emphasis on longitudinal care for chronic conditions that often are treated with surgery. Prior to joining CMS, she held senior leadership roles at several large medical centers. Marion has previously served as the Chair of the Indiana University Health Physician Board and was on the medical group’s Quality Committee. She has been a physician executive (Physician Executive of Surgical Services and Vice President of Finance) in two large medical groups. She has also been the Chair of two surgical departments and was Surgeon-in-Chief at a medical center. Marion is a head and neck surgeon with microvascular training. Her residency training was at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her MBA is from the Duke University Fuqua Business School with a Concentration in Healthcare Management.