Practice Areas
- Public Policy & Government Relations
- Disability
- Healthcare Policy
- Healthcare
- Reimbursement
- Fraud & Abuse
- Provider & Practitioner Operations
- Litigation
Bar Memberships
- New York
- District of Columbia
Industry Expertise
- Healthcare
- Hospitals & Hospital Systems
- Physicians
- Post Acute Care
- Orthotics & Prosthetics/DME
- Trade & Professional Organizations
Education
- JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 1989
- BA, Boston College, 1986, cum laude
Peter W. Thomas
Principal
Peter Thomas, a principal in the firm, has a federal law and legislative practice in the areas of health care, rehabilitation, disability, and employment. While at Georgetown University, he served as associate editor of the Journal of Law and Technology. Mr. Thomas was previously associated with a New York City civil defense litigation firm before becoming General Counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP), in Washington, DC. He currently focuses his practice on health care reform, rehabilitation research appropriations, and Medicare coverage and reimbursement policy, specializing in assistive technology such as artificial limbs and orthopedic braces.
Mr. Thomas served as Chair of the Subcommittee on Consumer Rights, Protections, and Responsibilities of the President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, where he was responsible for shepherding the Consumer Bill of Rights through the Commission for presentation to President Clinton. He also served on the National Advisory Board for the Center on Medical Rehabilitation Research at the National Institutes of Health from 1991 to 1996. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Center on Disability and Health and Physicians Against Land Mines (PALM). He serves as co-chair of the Health Task Force of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, a Washington-based working coalition of 120 national disability-related organizations.
Mr. Thomas has personal experience with disability and is co-author of The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Guidebook for Management and People with Disabilities, published in 1993.
Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville is a Washington, DC-based law firm that focuses on health care, education and the law of tax-exempt organizations.
News & Publications
- Solving the Riddle of Inpatient Rehabilitation Coverage
- Congress Increases TRICARE Program's Coverage of Assistive Technology
- Summary of Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 (adobe acrobat format)
- The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Guidebook for Management and People with Disabilities (1993)
