About the Secretary
Jason Weida
Jason Weida is Secretary at the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). Previously, he served as Chief of Staff at the Agency, where he coordinated Medicaid and health care regulation policy with other state agencies, the legislature, and the federal government. Secretary Weida also served as the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Medicaid Policy & Quality at AHCA, where he was responsible for the development, coordination, and implementation of Medicaid policy, and oversaw the quality of Florida’s Medicaid program.
Before his time at AHCA, Jason Weida served as a lawyer in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston, Massachusetts, and a counsel in DOJ’s Office of Legal Policy in Washington, DC. In his roles at DOJ, he coordinated closely with law enforcement partners, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration. He has overseen numerous investigations and led trial teams in a range of litigation matters, including jury trials. Specific to healthcare, he oversaw drug diversion investigations of doctor’s offices, pharmacies, and hospitals. In one matter, he led a year-long investigation of a Massachusetts hospital and its head pharmacist. Jason also defended the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in several healthcare litigation matters, including regulatory challenges, Medicare appeals, and medical malpractice claims against federally funded community health centers and officers in the Commissioned Corp of the U.S. Public Health Service who serve in agencies across the federal government. He also defended the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in medical malpractice actions against providers.
Jason Weida has extensive experience working on Article III judicial nominations. In 2018, he served on a secondment to DOJ’s Office of Legal Policy (OLP) to assist in the confirmation of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to be as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. For his role, in 2019, he received the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service, DOJ’s second-highest award for employee performance. In 2019, he served on a detail to OLP, where he worked on policy initiatives and judicial nominations.
Before entering public service, Jason Weida practiced law at Jones Day and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He earned a B.A., magna cum laude with Departmental Honors, from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania and a J.D., with Honors, from the University of Connecticut School of Law. He is an Eagle Scout.
