Rebecca L. Burke

Of Counsel

Rebecca Burke joined Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville in 1994. She has over 20 years of health care law experience. Ms. Burke’s practice encompasses a broad range of regulatory and reimbursement services. She regularly represents clients before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and other federal agencies on a variety of Medicare and Medicaid payment, fraud and abuse, Stark law, coverage, coding and other issues that affect physicians, hospitals, transplant centers, diagnostic testing facilities, and various other health care providers.

In addition, Ms. Burke represents several health care organizations including a number of physician specialty organizations on regulatory issues as well as general association law matters. She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and a frequent contributor to publications in the health care area.

Ms. Burke graduated from Brown University in 1975 and graduated cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1982 where she served on the Editorial Board of the American Criminal Law Review.  She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

Powers Pyles Sutter and Verville is a Washington, DC-based law firm that focuses on health care, education, and the law of tax-exempt organizations.

News & Publications

• PPSV Presents "Are ACOs for You?" Webinar
• PPSV Hosts Physician Payment and Registries Webinars
• PPSV holds Healthcare Reform Webinars
• Powers Pyles Hosts Transplant Compliance and Cost Recovery Seminar
• Are ACOs Right for Your Organization? - Analysis of ACO Final Rule
• CMS Proposed Rule & Related Agency Notices on Accountable Care Organizations
• Medicare Proposal to Curb Fraud and Abuse Through Enhancements to Enrollment Process
• How Will PPACA Impact Your Practice? A Physician's Guide to Health Care Reform
• The New Healthcare Reform Law's Impact on Physicians: Medicare, Medicaid and Related Physician Issues
• Patient Safety Organizations: Risks and Opportunities
• CMS Interpretive Guidelines for Transplant Center COPs more Detailed, Onerous than Regs Themselves
• CMS Issues Final Transplant Center Conditions of Participation, Health Lawyers News v. 11, no. 7 (July 2007)
• Medicare Part B v. Part D Drug Coverage Issues
• CMS Proposes New Conditions of Participation for Transplant Centers
• Office of Inspector General Advisory Opinion 04-08 - Physician Ownership of Physical Therapy Center
• Stark II Phase II -- Implications for Physicians and Groups
• HHS OIG Targeting Organ Transplant Services in 2004
• New Process for Seeking Medicare National Coverage Determinations | (PDF version, 114 KB)
• OIG's Compliance Program Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
• The Stark II Regulations

Professional Activities

• Member, American Health Lawyers Association
• DC Bar Association