Deborah Steinberg

Director, Medicaid Initiatives

Deborah Steinberg focuses on policy and advocacy work in Medicaid as Families USA’s Director, Medicaid Initiatives. Prior to joining Families, Deb worked as a senior health policy attorney at the Legal Action Center, where she led federal and state initiatives to improve substance use disorder and mental health coverage and care in Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial insurance markets. Before that, she served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at Health Law Advocates and worked for the Office of Patient Protection at the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission. Deb holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Vassar College, a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, and an MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where she was a Bloomberg Fellow in Addiction & Overdose.