Carolyn L. Yocom MBA

Carolyn Yocom is a Director on the Health Care Team at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). In over 20 years at GAO, she has worked on a variety of issues related to health care for low-income and vulnerable positions, particularly the Medicaid and state Children’s Health Insurance Program. Most recently, she has had responsibility for Medicaid work related to CMS program integrity, Medicaid data systems, and issues related to the federal matching assistance formula for Medicaid.

Prior to GAO, Ms. Yocom worked for the Government of the District of Columbia (Budget and Health Care Financing Offices), and began her career in the State of Oregon. Ms. Yocom received a bachelor’s degree with a major in English from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and a Master’s in Business Administration with a concentration in the public sector from the Atkinson Graduate School of Management (Willamette University) in Salem, Oregon.