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Alex is Executive Vice President & Director of Operations, ML Strategies, Washington, DC. He is an attorney with more than 10 years of senior-level experience in Congress and trade associations.
Alex assists clients with their legislative and regulatory needs on a wide range of issues, including health care, telecommunications, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), technology, energy, and federal procurement. Prior to joining ML Strategies, Alex served for over six years as chief counsel for Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-ME) on the US Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship. He was the lead policy counsel for Senator Snowe on health insurance market reform, individual and employer-based insurance, ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, and health care tax incentives. He worked on numerous bills, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009, Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Small Business Health Fairness Act, and Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Act. He advocated for health care legislative and regulatory issues before Senate Finance, HELP, Commerce, and Homeland Security Committees, as well as the US Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Labor. Along with health care policy, he advised Senator Snowe on energy, financial services, innovation, and technology matters.
Alex is regarded as one of the leading congressional staff specialists on the regulatory process and how federal agencies promulgate rules and regulations. He has developed numerous bills and amendments reducing the regulatory compliance burden of business.
Prior to working on Capitol Hill, Alex was a legislative analyst, with a focus on health and environmental regulatory issues, at the National Multi Housing Council. He was also a research clerk at the Maryland Office of the Attorney General, studying Medicaid reimbursement and long-term health insurance planning. Alex was also the chief articles editor for the Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy at the University of Houston Law Center.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Alexander Hecht
- Health Care Update - January 13, 2014 - (Posted On Tuesday, January 14, 2014)
- Health Care Reform Update - Week of December 23, 2013 - (Posted On Wednesday, December 25, 2013)
- Health Care Law Update - December 2013 - (Posted On Monday, December 23, 2013)
- Congress Moves Toward Permanent Medicare “Doc-Fix” - (Posted On Monday, December 16, 2013)
- Health Care Law Update - December 16, 2013 - (Posted On Monday, December 16, 2013)
- Health Care Regulatory Reform Update - Week of December 9, 2013 - (Posted On Monday, December 09, 2013)
- Health Care Reform Update - Week of November 26, 2013 - (Posted On Tuesday, November 26, 2013)
- Health Care Law Update - November 19, 2013 - (Posted On Tuesday, November 19, 2013)
- Health Care Reform Law Update - Week of November 11, 2013 - (Posted On Tuesday, November 12, 2013)
- Health Care Reform Update - Week of November 4, 2013 - (Posted On Tuesday, November 05, 2013)