Yasmine Legendre

Policy Analyst, Diabetes Policy Center

Ph: 212-292-7292

Legendre@NYSHealth.org

As Policy Analyst for the Diabetes Policy Center, Yasmine Legendre focuses on primary care reimbursement policy and devises recommendations. Ms. Legendre has six years of experience in health care.

Ms. Legendre previously served as a senior analyst with the City of New York’s Office of Management and Budget where she was responsible for policy and budget monitoring for the Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC). Ms. Legendre oversaw the $200 million City-funded portion of HHC’s budget, monitored the overall $5 billion budget, and worked on special projects, such as understanding the impact of Medicaid rebasing on HHC and analyzing HHC’s workers’ compensation program to find potential cost savings.

Prior to working with the City, Ms. Legendre worked at Greater New York Hospital Association on the Health Information Tool for Empowerment (HITE) project. As a program associate, she trained health professionals to use the tool and co-wrote grant proposals to continue funding the expansion of HITE throughout the State. Ms. Legendre also monitored health insurance expansion legislation at all levels of government and conducted research on health insurance.

Ms. Legendre holds a Master of Public Administration degree in Health Policy and Management from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Cornell University.