Adam Levinson

Adam Levinson serves as the Chief Financial Officer for NCDHHS. He previously served as the Chief Financial Officer for the Division of Health Benefits, or NC Medicaid, since 2019. 

During that time, he oversaw fiscal planning and operations for the NC Medicaid program, which has evolved to include managed care, Medicaid Expansion, the Healthy Opportunities Pilots, and several innovative payment streams, resulting in a total budget of just under $34 billion. 

Before joining NCDHHS, Levinson spent 11 years at the NC Department of Public Instruction, where he led several financial and operational functions through roles including Chief Financial Officer, Chief of Staff, Director of the Race to the Top Program, and Director of Policy & Strategic Planning.

Levinson previously led the Education team at the Fiscal Research Division of the NC General Assembly’s non-partisan Legislative Services Office, where he served as a fiscal analyst covering the state budgets for public K-12 schools for four years and natural and economic resources for three years. Early in his career, he worked for Orange-Person-Chatham Mental Health Center, providing early intervention and family support services to preschoolers and their families.

Levinson holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, where he double-majored in Government and Psychology, a master’s of Education in Early Intervention and Family Support from UNC-Chapel Hill, and a master’s in Public Affairs and Urban & Regional Planning (MPA-URP) from Princeton University.