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Peter Thomas, JD

Managing Partner
Powers Pyles Sutter and Verville PC

Peter Thomas is the Managing Partner of the Washington, DC law firm Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, PC. He has been a legislative and regulatory advocate for over thirty years on behalf of health care and post-acute care providers as well as consumers with injuries, illnesses, disabilities and chronic conditions. He represents several associations before Congress and the federal agencies including physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians, rehabilitation hospitals, orthotic and prosthetic providers and consumers, recreational therapists, and brain injury providers and consumers, among others. He also focuses on Medicare coverage and payment, audits and appeals, extrapolations, and responding to Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigations. Mr. Thomas has deep experience in defending inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and units on Medicare claim denials and helps coordinate a legal defense fund known as the Fund for Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation (FAIR). Mr. Thomas has personal experience with physical disability, wearing two prosthetic limbs below the knees since age ten.

Mr. Thomas also helps coordinate multiple coalitions focused on health and disability advocacy, rehabilitation research policy and funding, and access to rehabilitation services and devices. He serves on the American Trauma Society board of directors where he chairs the Trauma Survivors Network Committee and is part of a team funded by PCORI to study patient-centric improvements to trauma care. Mr. Thomas also serves on the National Quality Forum’s Patient Experience and Function Committee which evaluates and validates functional and quality of life quality measures. He also served on the President’s Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, served three years on the Advisory Board for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and served five years on the Advisory Board for the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research at NIH.

No financial relationships to disclose.

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