Dan Elling

Dan Elling is the former Staff Director of the Ways & Means Health Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives with more than 20 years of health care policy experience.

A highly respected legislative veteran with more than 10 years of experience on Capitol Hill, Dan served as the Staff Director of the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee for nearly five years. In this senior role, Dan advised Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady, Chairman Dave Camp, and Ranking Member Jim McCrery. As staff director, Dan was responsible for negotiating numerous multibillion-dollar health care legislative packages, coordinating and developing the committee’s health care agenda and messaging, and engaging House and Senate leadership and other authorizing committees.  Dan also served as the lead Republican Medicare staffer on the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction and supported then-Ranking Member Camp on the Bowles-Simpson Commission.

Prior to becoming staff director, Dan was responsible for Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, and Medicare post-acute care policy for Chairman Bill Thomas. He also served as Health Policy Aide to Health Subcommittee Chairman Nancy Johnson and Legislative Assistant to Congressman Jim Ramstad.

At Federal Health Policy Strategies Dan advises and represents health care providers, payers, and manufacturers before Congress on their legislative, regulatory, payment, and coverage issues, especially those being impacted by Medicare and commercial insurance.

Dan holds a B.A. in political science and history from Gustavus Adolphus College and an M.A. in political management from the George Washington University.

Contact Dan at dan.elling@fhpstrategies.com or (202) 448-1644.