Health Policy Source

What Health Policy Source does

Health Policy Source, Inc. is a privately held, boutique healthcare policy consulting and lobbying firm founded in 2004 by Dan Boston and Monica Tencate, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. The firm advises businesses and organizations on federal healthcare policy matters — including Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, and federal healthcare reform implementation — delivering a unified suite of services: real-time legislative and regulatory intelligence monitoring, policy analysis and client-specific matter summaries, development of legislative and regulatory solutions with supporting advocacy materials, and advocacy strategy execution including stakeholder engagement, key contact introductions, and Washington-centric media relations. The firm also assists clients in pursuing federal grant and programmatic opportunities.

The firm serves healthcare delivery organizations (health systems, hospitals, physician groups, and providers across the care continuum), medical innovators (pharmaceutical and medical technology companies bringing products through FDA and reimbursement pathways), healthcare foundations and associations, and managed care organizations and investment firms. The client base includes Moderna, Premier Enovis, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Tennessee Hospital Association, RELX/WHA Elsevier, HPNA, and MHA Billings AMM. No technology platform or productized software underpins the offering; the value proposition is built on the personal expertise and relationships of its five-person team, which includes two former Congressional committee staff members and a former CMS official.

Health Policy Source operates as a professional services firm on quote-based, tailored engagements. Distribution is exclusively direct — principals engage enterprise clients personally rather than through channel partners — and the go-to-market relies on reputation, principal networks, and earned media coverage rather than traditional marketing. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. The firm is founder-led (Dan Boston, President & CEO) and has executed steady, measured hiring since founding, with no disclosed outside capital, parent company, or institutional investors.

Name

Health Policy Source

Legal name

Health Policy Source, Inc.

Website

https://healthpolicysource.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Health Policy Source is a privately held, boutique federal healthcare policy consulting and lobbying firm in Alexandria, Virginia, advising health systems, medical innovators, and associations on Medicare, Medicaid, and regulatory strategy through direct principal-led engagements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Policy Consulting

NAICS

Administration of Public Health Programs (92312)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare & Life Sciences PR (BPAFADAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Health Strategy, Policy & Legislation (HLAJAMAA), Healthcare & Life Sciences PR (MPAAADAD)

Keywords

• Healthcare policy consulting
• Federal lobbying services
• Legislative advocacy
• Regulatory strategy
• Medicare medicaid policy

Headquarters

HQ city

Alexandria

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Policy Consulting Services: Professional consulting services providing policy intelligence, legislative and regulatory analysis, and strategic advocacy for healthcare clients navigating federal healthcare policy. Services include real-time policy monitoring, legislative and regulatory solution development, and advocacy strategy execution.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Health Policy Source is a boutique Washington, D.C.-area healthcare policy consulting firm that delivers policy intelligence, legislative and regulatory analysis, advocacy strategy, and grant assistance to clients navigating federal healthcare policy. Its work spans Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, public health priorities, and biomedical innovation, serving organizations that need senior-level engagement with Congress and federal agencies.

Product overview

Health Policy Source is a boutique healthcare policy consulting firm offering a unified suite of services centered on federal healthcare policy expertise. The core offering is comprehensive consulting and intelligence gathering, supported by specialized modules for legislative/regulatory solution development, advocacy strategy execution, and grant assistance. The firm combines expertise in Medicare, Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance Program, and federal healthcare reform with political strategy and advocacy services to help clients achieve their healthcare objectives in Washington, D.C.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Federal Healthcare Policy Consulting Services Unified suite of policy intelligence, legislative and regulatory analysis, advocacy strategy, and grant assistance delivered to clients navigating federal healthcare policy, with senior-level engagement on Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, and public health priorities.

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Jarrard Inc.minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Health Policy Source President Dan Boston is working with Jarrard Inc. in a partnership to better link hospitals and providers to healthcare news and policy developments coming out of Washington. This partnership aims to help hospital players across Tennessee and similar markets strengthen their connections to state lawmakers.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath: Large full-service law firm with substantial federal healthcare policy and government relations practice. Comparable to Health Policy Source in federal healthcare advocacy but operates at significantly larger scale as part of a national legal platform.
• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: Major international law firm with a leading federal healthcare policy and lobbying practice. Comparable to Health Policy Source in healthcare advocacy services but as part of a global legal and policy platform; relevant as the kind of larger competitor that can absorb mega-engagements HPS cannot.
• Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz: Full-service law firm with a Washington Public Policy Group that includes a federal healthcare policy practice founded by Dan Boston before he started Health Policy Source. Relevant incumbent peer because it offers overlapping healthcare policy and lobbying services as part of a much broader legal/regulatory portfolio.

Direct peers

• Tarplin, Downs & Young: A boutique federal healthcare lobbying and policy consulting firm in Washington, D.C. Closely comparable to Health Policy Source: small team focused exclusively on federal healthcare policy with former congressional and CMS staff, serving health systems, plans, and life sciences clients.
• Mehlman Consulting: Washington, D.C.-based boutique lobbying firm with strong federal healthcare policy practice. Comparable to Health Policy Source in scale, healthcare specialization, and reliance on former Capitol Hill relationships to deliver policy advocacy to enterprise clients.
• Capstone National Partners: Boutique federal lobbying and government affairs firm serving healthcare, technology, and other regulated sectors. Directly comparable in boutique size, federal focus, and healthcare advocacy services to Health Policy Source.
• ML Strategies: Washington, D.C. government relations and strategic consulting affiliate of a national law firm. Comparable to Health Policy Source in delivering federal healthcare policy and lobbying services to enterprise and association clients.
• Forbes Tate Partners: Washington, D.C. bipartisan government relations and public affairs firm with significant healthcare practice. Comparable to Health Policy Source in federal healthcare lobbying services to enterprise clients, though slightly larger.
• The Russell Group: Washington, D.C. healthcare and technology government affairs firm. Comparable to Health Policy Source in boutique scale, federal focus, and healthcare-centric client base anchored by former congressional staff.
• Subject Matter: Washington, D.C. strategic advisory and government affairs firm with a healthcare practice. Comparable to Health Policy Source in providing federal policy intelligence, legislative strategy, and advocacy to healthcare and regulated-industry clients.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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