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Jeanne Scott, talking head-in-chief, health-politics.com

5672 S. Feather Bush Dr.

Gold Canyon, Arizona 85218-6961

(480) 983-5586

Cell: (703) 371-4894

Jeanne Scott has been one of the nation’s leading health care lobbyists for over 30 years.  In addition to her lobbying on behalf of the health care industry.  Currently Ms. Scott is the somewhat irreverent writer, editor and publisher of what she has humbly named theJeanneScottletter, an electronic newsletter, reporting on developments in “health care reform,” that is widely read in many health care circles.   In previous lives, she has been the director of government relations for NDCHealth, the Washington, DC office director and chief lobbyist for the Catholic Health Association in the United States (CHAUSA) and a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Michigan. She served during the first Reagan Administration as counsel to the Health Care Financing Administration, the friendly folks that brought us prospective payment, DRGs and RB-RVS.  She is a veteran “inside-the-beltway Washington DC” lawyer but she is now enjoying the opportunity to get out and see first hand for herself just what a mess those “inside-the-beltway” types have made of the U.S. health care system.

Ms. Scott is a past national chair of the trade group of companies in the health care EDI industry, the Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions (AFEHCT), and has served on the board and executive committee of the Workgroup on Electronic Data Interchange (WEDi), having been one of its officers.  She is one of the founding members of what is now the American Health Lawyers Association. She has written numerous reports and professional journal articles. For eleven years , she wrote a monthly column in the Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and has contributed regular columns for other journals as well. In 2003, she was presented with a plaque, naming her "Grandmother of HIPAA" by AFEHCT, for her work getting the legislation drafted, passed and implemented. She is a frequent and very popular speaker at conferences, seminars and “after dinner.” 

Her proudest current achievement is being grandmother to Caitlin, Hannah, Eamon, Elvis (yes, she really does have an “Elvis”), and the latest additions: two sets of beautiful little twin girls, Margaret and Iris born in October 2004, and Zoe and Selema, born two months later in December.

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the Bob

 

...Eamon taking his great-grandpa for a walk

... our Alaska salmon

  Jeanne, talking ... so what else is new?

Jeanne and... what's his name... oh yes, Larry, my "baby" -- all 6'3" of him

... our little condo in NC, the closer to five of the grandkids

... and you wonder why we have a grandson named Elvis

... the mother of Caitlin, Hannah and Eamon-- my Melissa

...Bob's son Cliff, body painted,    or is it planted?

...we went to Italy in 2008

...the Colosseum

...Benedictus PP. XVI

and from some of our other favorite travels....

The Tetons

Canyon de Chelly Cliff House, Arizona

 

Gold Canyon is about 52 miles as the crow flies mostly east by southeast of downtown Phoenix and 87miles, north by northeast of Tucson, smack dab in the middle of the Superstition Mountains, last known home of  Jacob Waltz, the "Lost Dutchman" of gold mining fame.  Folks around here tell of old codgers and grizzled treasure hunters still searching for the fabled gold mine that the old Dutchman supposedly found, but then "lost," over a hundred years ago.

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