Jennifer Friedman

Jennifer Friedman is a former Counselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and Deputy Staff Director of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee in the U.S House of Representatives.  She has more than 20 years of health policy experience. 

Jennifer Friedman is a former Counselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and & Human Services (HHS) and Deputy Staff Director of the Ways and & Means Health Subcommittee with more than 20 years of health policy experience in both public and private sectors, domestically and overseas.   

Jennifer is widely respected for her Medicare expertise. In the Biden-Harris Administration, she advised Secretary Xavier Becerra on all aspects of the Medicare program as well as policy related to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and coordinated policy development with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and White House. 

In her role with Ways & Means, Jennifer was a senior member of the Congressional staff team that developed theAffordable Care Act, drafting delivery system reform provisions to advance value-based care. She was also the lead House staffer that negotiated reform of the Medicare End-Stage Renal Dialysis (ESRD) payment system and a member of the bipartisan, bicameral team that developed the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Transformation (IMPACT) Act. She advised Ways & Means Committee Members, including current Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), and Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY), Chairman Sandy Levin (D-MI), Subcommittee Chairman Pete Stark (D-CA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) on all aspects of Medicare Part A, ESRD, and ultimately Medicare Advantage and many Medicare fee-for-service payment systems.

Jennifer’s decade of Congressional experience also includes tenure as a senior budget analyst on the House Budget Committee for Ranking Member John Spratt (D-SC) during development of the Medicare Modernization Act and the Part D benefit. Her government career began as a program examiner at the White House Office of Management and Budget.

In the private sector, Jennifer advanced government affairs, policy, and reimbursement strategy for two medical device companies, working closely with corporate marketing, sales, and business teams to develop market access strategies for medical technologies used in inpatient and outpatient hospital, post-acute, ambulatory surgery center, physician office, and dialysis clinic settings. While in the private sector overseas, Jennifer advised multinational health companies on the policy and politics of market access in Japan as a consultant for Tokyo’s premier government relations consultancy.

Jennifer graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in government and holds an M.A. in public policy from the University of California at Berkeley.

 Contact Jennifer at jennifer.friedman@fhpstrategies.com or (202) 448-5001.