With eight years of experience working on Capitol Hill, Conor Sheehey is well-versed in a range of healthcare-related federal policy topics as well as federal government strategy and advocacy. His subject matter expertise includes Medicare policy, along with life sciences, prescription drug economics, medical device, provider reimbursement, and health innovation policy more broadly.
Before joining Leavitt Partners, an HMA Company, Conor served as senior health policy advisor to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee chair. In this role, he advised the Committee on prescription drug, medical device, clinician payment, artificial intelligence (AI), telehealth and medication supply chain policy issues.
Conor led several bipartisan legislative efforts, including the development of comprehensive pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reforms as well as bipartisan proposals on clinician payment reform and drug shortages. He also served as the Republican staff lead on the Inflation Reduction Act, litigating key prescription drug issues before the Senate Parliamentarian throughout the budget reconciliation process and driving the committee’s oversight strategy during the law’s initial implementation.
Prior to his Committee work, Conor was deputy legislative director for U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, advising the senator on all matters related to healthcare, education, workforce, human services, and retirement security policy. During his tenure in Sen. Scott’s office, Conor authored and secured the enactment of bipartisan legislation related to obesity prevention, rare disease, food allergy prevention and Medicare Secondary Payer benefit coordination, among other topics. He actively participated in negotiations and markups held by the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on various legislative proposals. These included proposals regarding prescription drug costs, surprise medical bills, public health programs and other initiatives.
Conor earned his master’s degree in teaching and special education from the Relay Graduate School of Education and his bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Virginia, which he attended as a Jefferson Scholar.