Founding Principal & Managing Partner
Andrew MacPherson
Areas of Expertise
- Medicare and Medicare Advantage
- Private health insurance coverage and benefit design
- Mental and behavioral health
- Alternative Payment Models and value-based payment
- Palliative care, hospice, long-term and chronic care management
- Social Isolation and Loneliness
- Prescription drug coverage and pharmaceutical issues
- Social determinants of health
- Affordable Care Act
- Inflation Reduction Act
- Prescription Drug Pricing
Andrew MacPherson is Founding Principal and Managing Partner at Healthsperien, LLC, bringing over 20 years of expertise in federal and state legislative, regulatory, and political health care policy. He co-leads a team of over 40 experts focused on strategic policy development and advocacy efforts for a wide array of clients, including Fortune 100 companies, national health plans, professional associations, coalitions, health care innovators, and not-for-profit organizations.
Andrew is a recognized expert in person-centered health care transformation, focusing on addressing the public health challenges of social isolation and loneliness, advancing value-based insurance design and value-based payment strategies, and improving advanced illness and end-of-life care delivery. He is also deeply engaged in crafting innovative policy solutions for public sector health plans. A sought-after speaker on national health policy and political issues, Andrew has presented at hundreds of conferences and major events such as HLTH and the End Well Symposium. His insights have been featured in leading media outlets, including CBS Evening News, The Washington Post, Health Affairs, NPR, and more.
Before founding Healthsperien in 2014, Andrew served as Director of Government Affairs at Jennings Policy Strategies, Inc. There, he collaborated with Chris Jennings on high-profile health care policy initiatives, including the Obama and Clinton presidential campaigns, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s health reform efforts with former Majority Leaders Baker, Daschle, Dole, and Mitchell, and the Clinton Global Initiative. Andrew also advised a wide range of clients on federal policy, political, and communications strategies, gaining significant expertise in health care reform, coalition building, and stakeholder engagement.
Earlier in his career, Andrew held leadership and advisory positions with the American Psychiatric Association, Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and the Democratic Governors’ Association. Originally from Vermont, Andrew earned a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from The George Washington University in 2005.
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Healthsperien, LLC, is a Washington, D.C.-based health care policy consulting firm focused on strategic, regulatory, legislative and implementation issues.