Kristin Crawford

Associate Principal

Health Management Associates

Harrisburg, PA

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Kristin Crawford is a government relations and healthcare policy expert with more than 25 years of leadership experience in both Pennsylvania’s executive and legislative branches. With expertise in Medicaid and public health programs, she combines strategic policy insight with hands-on project management to guide complex, cross-sector initiatives from concept to execution.

Before joining Health Management Associates (HMA), Kristin served as legislative director for the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS), the state’s Medicaid agency. There, she led a team of seven legislative analysts in reviewing and analyzing legislation, regulations, and policy proposals across a wide range of DHS programs, including long-term services and supports, behavioral health, child welfare, early childhood education, intellectual disability services, and public assistance.

Prior to her tenure at DHS, Kristin held senior roles in both the legislative and executive branches, including chief of staff and legislative director for a state senator, deputy secretary in the Governor’s Office of Legislative Affairs, and legislative director for the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue. These positions gave her a strong foundation in navigating healthcare financing, public health infrastructure, and cross-agency initiatives critical to Medicaid and related programs.

Kristin brings a systems-oriented approach to her work, assembling and coordinating multidisciplinary teams to achieve impactful, sustainable outcomes. At HMA, she has managed large-scale projects, including a state’s transition of long-term services and supports from fee-for-service to managed care. This initiative involved the oversight of more than 1,200 implementation tasks tracked through Smartsheet and resulted in her being tapped to lead an additional program implementation, currently underway.

In another project, Kristin helped design and implement an innovative model of care for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/A), aimed at stabilizing funding, expanding services, and increasing wages for direct support professionals.

These efforts are representative of the broad portfolio of projects Kristin has led and contributed to, reflecting her ability to deliver high-impact results across a range of healthcare and human services initiatives. Her work also includes supporting clients with procurement strategy and execution, serving in supplemental staffing roles for large health plans, and advising on operational improvements, change management, and stakeholder engagement strategies.

Kristin has a bachelor’s degree in public policy from The Pennsylvania State University.

A proud farm girl, Kristin raised Angus cattle on a beef farm in Lancaster County, PA. These days, she and her husband live in Camp Hill, where their two cats—Birdie and Lucy—graciously allow them to share the house.