Over the course of close to 30 years, Kevin Milne has been a trusted advisor to managed care organizations, tribal healthcare providers, hospitals, physicians and other practitioners, investors, and government healthcare leaders, and he brings a wealth of experience from a distinguished career to his engagements with clients. 

For much of his career, Kevin has held senior-level legal positions with state and federal agencies that administer and oversee healthcare. At the U.S. Government Accountability Office from 2002 to 2010, Kevin was the legal advisor to teams of policy experts, federal investigators, and congressional staff for hundreds of evaluations related to the Medicare and Medicaid programs, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Indian Health Service (IHS), the Veterans Health Administration, and national public health matters, and he made numerous contributions to reports to Congress, HHS, and the VA with recommendations for improving the performance of federal healthcare programs. In several instances, his legal work on congressional oversight matters attracted national media attention and led to congressional hearings and the introduction of legislation and other remedial action. 

Kevin has also served in several leadership roles at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As the Chief Counsel for HHS’s San Francisco Regional Office, he was a principal legal advisor to Department officials for Region 9 and also led the legal office that provides advice and litigation support for regional components of HHS, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the IHS, the Office for Civil Rights, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the Health Resources and Services Administration. He later served as the Associate Deputy General Counsel in the Immediate Office of the General Counsel. In 2021, Kevin joined the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), which administers the largest Medicaid program in the Nation, and directed legal support for 5 offices and divisions of DHCS, including the Behavioral Health, Audits and Investigations, and Managed Care divisions, and was primarily engaged with implementation of key components of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (“CalAIM”) initiative, a comprehensive, multi-year undertaking to transform the Medi-Cal program. Earlier in his career, he was in-house counsel for Kaiser Permanente’s operations in 3 states, and a staff attorney for the CMS at its headquarters near Baltimore. He began his legal career as a law clerk to a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

In addition to his legal roles, Kevin has held several other senior-level positions with HHS. In 2017 and 2018, he was the Acting Director for Region 9 of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and in that role spearheaded implementation of the Department’s priority initiatives in the Region and served as the Department’s liaison to tribal, federal, state, and local elected officials, other federal agencies, and members of the public. In addition, he was the chief of staff to the HHS Senior Agency Presidential Transition Official during the period leading up to the 2020 presidential election, and coordinated activities across all 26 HHS Divisions to ensure continuity in HHS’s operations and an orderly transition for incoming appointees of the Biden-Harris Administration. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service for the federal government in 2015. 

Kevin has an LL.M. with a concentration in health law and healthcare policy from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and a J.D., cum laude from Washington and Lee University, where he was the Research Editor for the law review and inducted into the Order of the Coif. He received a B.A. cum laude, in cursu honorum from Fordham University. He is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia.