Amy has spent more than twenty years helping shape state and federal health policy.  Since 2003, Amy has worked as a senior lobbyist for the law firm Arent Fox, representing healthcare innovators on federal legislative and regulatory matters.  Amy’s practice consists of hospitals, health systems, device and drug manufacturers and provider organizations and she writes and speaks to groups about the implications and intersection of legislative and regulatory changes to the Medicaid and Medicare programs, healthcare system and delivery change, implementation of the Affordable Care Act and coverage and payment for emerging technologies. Amy also provides professional services to non-profit and charitable organizations, and received the firm’s Pro Bono award in 2009 for outstanding contributions to the public interest.

Prior to joining Arent Fox, Amy directed the federal operations for Broydrick & Associates, a Wisconsin-based government relations firm, and managed the health care practice at the Carmen Group.  Amy served on the legislative and budget team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (then Health Care Financing Administration) during passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, focusing on federal budgeting, Medicaid’s charity care program for public hospitals, state financing programs, demonstration programs, and the creation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program.  Amy received the Administrator’s top award for 2#10780528_v1service for the development of the President’s FY 1998 Medicare and Medicaid legislative program.  In 1991, Amy served as a leadership aide to Florida House Majority Leader Anne Mackenzie, and in 1994 assumed the role of Legislative Director for Florida’s health care agency and as Governor Lawton Chiles’ legislative liaison. In this role, Amy led a statewide campaign in support of the Governor’s comprehensive health care reform legislation to increase access to care for Floridians.

Amy is the immediate Past Chair of the Montgomery County Board of Social Services, responsible for advocating for programs and services to support the county’s safety net. Amy has also served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), representing foster children that have been removed from their home due to abuse and/or neglect.

As a student at Watchung Hills High School in New Jersey, Amy was the first JSA student leader on the East Coast and organized the first JSA convention on the East Coast after attending the JSA Summer School at Georgetown University.