2015-01 January Member Meeting: WA State Medicaid Policy & LTC Partnership Program
Catherine Kinnaman is Office Chief of the Long-term Care Eligibility and Policy Unit at the Aging and Long-Term Supports Administration (ALTSA) under the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. She started in this position in July 2013 and has primary responsibility for long-term care medicaid policy, training and systems development. In addition she manages the statewide long-term care specialty medical team that processes eligibility determinations for clients of the Developmental Disabilities Administration, hospice and the Healthcare for Workers with Disabilities program.
Prior to joining ALTSA Catherine worked as a medicaid policy analyst at the Health Care Authority (since 2005). During her time at HCA she worked with the Health Benefit Exchange in the build and design of the new Washington Healthplanfinder portal and was the HCA lead in the creation, amendment and repeal of over 170 Washington Administrative Code changes needed to implement the Affordable Care Act changes in Washington State. She also has worked extensively on medicaid policy for aged, blind & disabled populations including medically needy spenddown, hospice and the state-funded kidney disease program.
She is originally from the United Kingdom and immigrated to the US in 1990. She has a B.A in French Studies from the University of Warwick, England. She is married and lives in Olympia, WA with her husband and her youngest son (16).