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Health Policy Source is proud to again be one of Bloomberg’s “top-performing lobbying firms of 2026.” We are grateful to our clients for placing their trust in us.

Dan Boston has been named one of The Hill's Top Lobbyists for 2025. This is Dan's 22nd year being recognized as one of our nation's "Top Lobbyists" by The Hill newspaper. Dan has been named an unprecedented 22 of the last 23 years. This list covers all policy sectors, not just strictly healthcare, and includes former ambassadors, Members of Congress, CMS Administrators, etc.

https://thehill.com/homenews/5632709-top-lobbyists-2025/

HPS is delighted to announce that Capitol Hill healthcare veteran Gayle Gerdes is joining our team as our newest health policy analyst. We believe Gayle will continue our nearly two decades long tradition of focused policy expertise and personal attention to client needs.

Gayle has worked for the Concord Coalition, first as Western Regional Director and more recently as a consultant. The Concord Coalition works to advance an understanding of the nation's fiscal challenges, as well as forge bipartisan efforts to effectively address those issues. Earlier in her career, Gayle worked for Senator Timothy Hutchinson (R-AR) and Congressman Christopher John (D-LA) handling health care matters ranging from Medicare Part D to HIPAA.

Importantly, Gayle also spent four years on the board of a rural New Mexico hospital, where she approved credentialing for medical staff, enforced cost-conscious budgeting for both short-term and long-term planning, oversaw quality of care and other operational issues and, in general, represented and actively pursued the healthcare needs of her community to promote and preserve access to high-quality healthcare.

This varied background gives her a deep understanding of the federal legislative and regulatory processes, as well as the fiscal constraints in which our nation’s policy debate plays out impacting all healthcare sectors.

Gayle succeeds Matt DoBias, who recently left HPS to pursue another career opportunity in external communications. We’re grateful to him for his good works, and wish him all the best.

Dan Boston, Health Policy Source President, was selected by Washington Life Magazine as a member of their annual “Power 100 - Washington's Most Influential." This 2017 list includes representatives from across the ideological spectrum, including a former President, Speaker of the House, Senators, Fortune 500 CEO's, etc.

https://issuu.com/washingtonlife/docs/wl0517_digital

“Decisions in state legislatures ripple through districts, so data will have to be paired with the faces of people who will be impacted - from patients to the different types of employees,” said Health Policy Source President Dan Boston, who is working with Jarrard in a partnership to better link hospitals and providers to the news cascading out of Washington.

Jenny Gladieux takes a look at the impact therapy caps have on Medicare beneficiaries in the home health context. The article, Jimmo and the Improvement Standard: Implementing Medicare Coverage through Regulations, Policy Manuals and Other Guidance, was published in the American Journal of Law and Medicine in 2014.

Also available at http://www.aslme.org/Back_Issues_And_Articles?journal=AJLM&year=2014&vo…

Jenny Gladieux has recently co-authored a book chapter on Medicaid ACOs in the American Health Lawyers Association’s ACO Handbook: A Guide to Accountable Care Organizations (2d ed. 2015). The article covers what’s happening in state delivery reform efforts in 16 states that have elected to allow providers to join together in providing better, smarter care to their Medicaid beneficiaries.

http://www.lexisnexis.com/ahla/ProductDetail.aspx?id=148

“The congresswoman has been a leader on healthcare issues, especially rural and special need issues for years, and Chairman Upton asking her to join the health subcommittee is an asset to the committee and the broader healthcare community,” says Dan Boston, Executive Vice President and Principal at Health Policy Source, Inc.

Dan Boston, Executive Vice President and Principal at Health Policy Source, Inc., said, ‘‘The administration’s reinforcing the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce efforts on [the sustainable growth rate formula] can only further reinforce the momentum that can—and should—build behind congressional reform efforts.’’

“I think E&M will be talked about a great deal” in upcoming negotiations, says Dan Boston, Executive Vice President and Principal at Health Policy Source, Inc., a Washington-based consulting firm. And while he says hospitals were successful in maneuvering around this issue in the just-ended fiscal-cliff discussions, he thinks this payment area has implications beyond hospitals.

“It's not a hospital payment issue, but an integrated-delivery issue. If we're moving toward more integration and more coordination of care and holding folks accountable, you can't cut them for that,” he says. “What the federal government can do is make sure that the people receiving the benefit are meeting the criteria.”