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Dan Boston, who has been a partner of Health Policy Source for over a decade and recently became President, has been named one of the Hill's Top Lobbyists for 2015. This is Dan's 12th year being recognized as one of the best in a field of over 13,000 registered lobbyists.

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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.

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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.

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Dan Boston, a Partner at Health Policy Source for the last decade, has been named one of the Hill's Top Lobbyists for 2014. This is Dan's 11th year being recognized as one of the best in a field of over 13,000 registered lobbyists.
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/221478-top-l…

Dan Boston, Health Policy Source Inc. Boston is a policy pro who is keeping a close eye on congressional efforts to overhaul Medicare’s flawed physician payment formula.
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“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.”

Dan Boston, Principal at Health Policy Source, Inc., weighs in on the key issues facing the healthcare industry this year.

A small change sought through recently introduced federal legislation could amount to big
changes for the nation's rural health clinics.