Health Care Policy and Government Affairs

Critical forums in which we work include Congress, including key legislative committees of both the House and Senate, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S. Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), state insurance departments, state health insurance exchanges, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization.

Our team includes attorneys with public service experience in key government positions. These include, for example, service as:

• Finance Director to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
• Counsel to U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
• Congressional Affairs Advisor to the HHS Office of the Inspector General 
• Director of the Office of Technical Payment Policy at CMS, with key responsibility for policy development with regard to Accountable Care Organizations and implementation of the Stark law
• Acting Director and Deputy Director of the USPTO as well as Acting and Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for intellectual property
• Associate Chief Counsel at the FDA
• Counsel, Office of Personnel Management

Our practice includes regulatory and public policy counseling and analysis related to proposed and implemented statutes, regulations, and other guidance at the state and federal levels; effective advocacy and lobbying before Congress and Federal regulatory agencies, quasi-government bodies, and legislatures at the State and Federal Level to influence policy; relationship building and facilitation among stakeholders, HHS, legislatures, state-based marketplaces, departments of insurance, NAIC and foreign governments and international trade bodies; technical assistance on legislative and regulatory issues: legislative and regulatory drafting; and providing technical comment letters to regulatory bodies.