New Name, Expanded Team: HillCo Health Is the New Name for HillCo Partners’ Washington DC Office

Jan. 4, 2010 - PRLog -- Washington, DC – HillCo Partners today announced that its Washington, DC office officially changed its name to HillCo Health to reflect its boutique focus and independence from the state lobbying activities of HillCo Partners. A premier strategic B2B and B2G advisory company serving a diverse client base within the United States and globally, HillCo Health will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year as a leading resource for companies, investors and organizations in healthcare.

“The company’s roots grew out of the health care consulting business of our state advocacy arm, HillCo Partners, and as we continue to grow, singularly focus on the healthcare industry, and dedicate ourselves to our clients by opening new offices such as New York, the founding members of both our Austin and Washington, DC offices thought a new name was appropriate,” said Marc Samuels, founding member and president of HillCo Health, “it is reflective of our renewed commitment to solving the complex challenges faced by our healthcare clients on a daily basis.”

HillCo Health also has a new logo and a new website @ www.hillcohealth.com.

HillCo Health is a strategic consulting firm focused primarily on the health care financing and policymaking process. HillCo Health designs and analyzes policy proposals; strategies and tactics; prepares materials needed to conduct effective advocacy; monitoring and reporting on the national policy environment; and performs special projects related to coverage, coding, and reimbursement of products and services in the private and public sectors.  HillCo Health has assembled a number of former seasoned U.S. Department of Health and Human Services staffers with extensive experience at and working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Food and Drug Administration, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Veterans Administration and Department of Defense as well as state health programs and private payors.  The goal of HillCo Health is to ensure that its client’s items, products and services are coded properly, covered appropriately, fully reimbursed, or contracted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), its parent and sister agencies, state Medicaid, and commercial insurance.

“I have worked with Grant Bagley, Caleb DesRosiers and Marc Samuels, for over 8 years now both as a recipient of their work and advocacy and as the Deputy Administrator and COO of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The team they have assembled at HillCo Health, whether brought in early to the C-suite in the clinical phase of product development or in a crisis or when others have failed to best position a product or service with a public or private payor issue, is simply the best, “ said Ruben King-Shaw, President and CEO of Mansa Equity Partners, “they are a must have resource given the implementation of health care reform efforts about to take place at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, CMS, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), as well as the thorny, complicated, seminal business issues C-suite CEOs and brand managers face on a daily basis. They are on my team and should be on every healthcare executive’s rolodex.”

HillCo Health Team

Grant Bagley, M.D. , J.D.
Former Director, Coverage and Analysis Group, CMS
Former Medical Officer, Office of the Commissioner, FDA

Marc Samuels M.P.H., J.D.
Former White House Office of Domestic Policy Aide,
Former Gubernatorial Health Policy Advisor; Executive Assistant, TX Health and Human Services Commission

Michael Beebe
Former Director, American Medical Association CPT and RUC

Doran Edwards, M.D.
Former Medical Director, Palmetto G.B.A. and PDAC (Pricing, Data, Analysis Coding) Contractor Chief Medical Officer

Caleb DesRosiers, M.P.A. , J.D.
Former HHS/CMS Special Assistant,
Former Policy Director, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Pfizer Inc.
Former Health Policy Advisor, Massachusetts Speaker’s Office
 
Alissa Williams Pereira, M.P.H.
Former Legislative Analyst, Schering Plough Corporation

Danielle Pambianco M.P.H
Former Healthcare Analyst, Altarum Institute

HillCo Health is a Washington, D.C.-based strategic consulting firm focused primarily on the health care financing and policymaking process. We are especially adept at designing and analyzing policy proposals; strategies and tactics; preparing materials needed to conduct effective advocacy; monitoring and reporting on the national policy environment; and performing special projects related to coverage, coding, and reimbursement of products and services in the private and public sectors.  Our goal is to ensure that our client’s items, products and services are coded properly, covered appropriately, fully reimbursed, or contracted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), its parent and sister agencies, state Medicaid, and private payors.

Each partner and principal has played a pivotal role in developing policy and affecting the regulatory agendas on some of the most critical domestic policy issues, including those related to Medicare, Medicaid, private sector healthcare, medical liability reform, and the Food and Drug Administration.  Our state-based health care practice in Austin, Texas, like our Washington, D.C. health care practice, is consistently ranked in the top of the field, and provides public policy advocacy and consulting to a host of companies and organizations across industries and government.

Learn more at www.hillcohealth.com