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Health Care

Our Health Care Team has a deep understanding of the policies shaping the U.S. health care delivery system, and extensive experience with public and private health coverage & payment issues.

Our Health Care Team leverages our wide range of experiences to develop targeted legislative strategies based on in-depth policy analyses, an understanding of legislative processes and procedures, and recognition of the political factors affecting health care policymaking.

Project Leads

Denise Morrisey

Our team has successfully represented and advocated for:

  • Health care providers – dentists, hospitals, long-term care providers, nurses, etc.
  • Manufacturers and innovators
  • Multi-sector coalitions
  • Non-profit payers
  • Patient and consumer entities
  • Health care quality-based organizations

Our team has worked on a diverse range of issues and has substantial expertise and experience in:

Medicare Coverage, Payment, and Patient Access

Our team has provided legislative and political strategy to clients on an extensive set of Medicare policies, including:

  • Medicare coverage and reimbursement for innovative and life-saving technologies, treatments, and services
  • Beneficiary and provider appeals and audit reforms
  • Provider payment reforms and reimbursement adequacy
  • Care coordination and delivery system modernization
  • Telehealth
  • Electronic health records
  • Quality improvement and conditions of participation for providers.

We have handled Medicare issues addressed in the:

  • Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act
  • Affordable Care Act
  • Medicare Modernization Act
  • Numerous budget reconciliation packages, among other legislative vehicles.

Medicaid, CHIP, and Dual Eligible Beneficiaries

Our team members have worked on legislative and political strategy for initiatives including:

  • CHIP administrative flexibility
  • Evidence-based health programs for families
  • Medicaid reimbursement policies.

Health Care Access

The Health Care Team has expertise in legislative strategy development, including:

  • Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
  • Health care reform proposals
  • Provider network adequacy; patient access to health care treatments including prescription drugs, biologicals, medical devices, and vision and dental services
  • Consumer-directed health care programs
  • Targeted issues affecting individuals with diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and chronic or rare conditions.