Rick Weissenstein joined TD Cowen Washington Research Group in August 2016 and covers health care services policy issues. TD Cowen Washington Research Group was recently named #1 in the Institutional Investor Washington Strategy category. The team has been consistently ranked among the top macro policy teams for the past decade. Previously he worked as a senior analyst at Guggenheim Securities, MF Global, Stanford Financial, and Schwab Soundview, where he was responsible for analyzing health care policy issues and emerging trends in the federal and state legislative, regulatory, and legal arenas and their implications for the health care industry. He was formerly the Washington Bureau Chief for Modern Healthcare magazine, and a reporter for Advertising Age magazine. Mr. Weissenstein began his career as a Certified Public Accountant in the Chicago office of Ernst & Young. He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting at Millikin University, and a master’s degree in journalism at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Material prepared by the TD Cowen Washington Research Group is intended as commentary on political, economic, or market conditions and is not intended as a research report as defined by applicable regulation.