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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.
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- Examining Charitable Patient Assistance Programs Part Three in a Series: Using Third Parties to Evaluate Charitable Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs) - (Posted On Monday, July 22, 2013)
- Health Care Reform Update - July 15th, 2013 - (Posted On Wednesday, July 17, 2013)
- Examining Charitable Patient Assistance Programs Part - Two in a Series: Independent Audits of Charitable Entities - (Posted On Thursday, July 11, 2013)
- Health Care Reform Update - Week of July 8, 2013 - (Posted On Tuesday, July 09, 2013)
- Health Care Reform Update - Week of July 1, 2013 - (Posted On Monday, July 01, 2013)
- Health Care Reform Update - Week of June 24, 2013 - (Posted On Thursday, June 27, 2013)
- Health Care Reform Update - Week of June 17th, 2013 - (Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2013)