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FleishmanHillard

Formerly: Fleishman-Hillard

Kind
PR and public affairs
Parent
Omnicom
Country
US
Website
https://fleishmanhillard.com
Clients
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · CDC

Campaigns (6)

CampaignClientYearTopicRole
Get Covered Illinois (ACA marketplace outreach) lead
AHCJ: Illinois awarded FleishmanHillard a $33 million contract to promote ACA insurance coverage; the firm led a team of subcontracting agencies. Campaign brand name not on the page. Health insurance enrollment; no taxonomy topic.
State of Illinois2013PR
Connecting Kids to Coverage (Children's Health Coverage National Outreach and Enrollment Campaign) lead
USAspending contract records: 'Children's Health Coverage National Outreach and Enrollment Campaign', 2015-2019, about $4.1M; an earlier CHIP task order ran 2012-2015 (about $6.1M, https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HHSM500T0001_7530_HHSM500201100025I_7530). Medicaid/CHIP enrollment; no taxonomy topic. Campaign brand name is CMS's; no page found that names FleishmanHillard alongside the brand.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services2012PR
National Diabetes Education Program partnership network development lead
USAspending: CDC task order 2005-2010, about $4.3M.
CDC (National Diabetes Education Program)2005DiabetesStrategy
Arthritis physical activity messages (new audiences and messages research) lead
USAspending: 'Arthritis new audience and new messages research', 2004-2010, about $0.3M. Possibly feeds CDC's 'Physical Activity. The Arthritis Pain Reliever.' campaign; not confirmed.
CDC Arthritis Program2004Physical activityResearch evaluation
National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign (non-advertising / public communications and outreach)
GAO-05-175 (opened via Wayback) names Fleishman-Hillard as one of four prime contractors for FY2002-2004 and puts its award for these services at about $27 million. Youth Today (Jan 2000, https://youthtoday.org/2000/01/mccaffreys-anti-drug-campaign-caught-in-crossfire/) describes the original five-year, $48 million non-advertising contract, which supports the 1999 start year.
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy1999DrugsPR
National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign online strategy
InternetNews, 24 Dec 1998: ONDCP awarded a $9.4 million contract to Fleishman-Hillard's Washington office to build the campaign's online strategy.
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy1998DrugsDigital

Research notes

St. Louis-based. Credits checked 2026-10-22 against fetched pages: GAO-05-175 (Wayback), Youth Today 2000, InternetNews 1998, AHCJ 2014, USAspending award records (API) for the CMS and CDC task orders. Corrected 2026-10-22: ONDCP contract value per GAO is about $27M for FY2002-2004 (was $18M); the 1999 start year rests on Youth Today, not GAO.

Sources

  1. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-175/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-175.htm
  2. https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-05-175.pdf
  3. https://youthtoday.org/2000/01/mccaffreys-anti-drug-campaign-caught-in-crossfire/

Record agencies/fleishmanhillard.json, updated 2026-10-22