PETER THOMAS

Healthcare access; brain injury treatment and research; health reform implementation; essential benefits; Medicare and Medicaid issues; quality improvement; evidenced-based medicine; protection for post-acute care services Value Based Purchasing and PAC bundling; access to rehab services under Managed Care; Three Hour Rule legislation under Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities and pre-authorization for Medicare Advantage; NDAA amendments on brain injury studies; TBI Act reauthorization.

Medicare and Medicaid coding and payment coverage of O&P; VA access issues; research funding; quality of patient care; O&P access; Medicare O&P Patient Centered Care Act; essential benefits; Medicare physician documentation; ACA implementation; Medicare Audit and Appeals Legislation; prior authorization regulations and off-the-shelf orthotics; TCET legislation; appropriations funding for the orthotics and prosthetics outcome research program under DOD.

Medicare; Medicaid; Orthotics and Prosthetics policy; Medicare O&P Patient Centered Care Act; Medicare physician documentation; off the shelf orthotics legislation; Medicare O&P Patient Centered Care Act; appropriations.

Assistive device coverage; healthcare reform and Medicare policy; complex rehab as separate Medicare benefit and delay of competitively bid pricing on accessories; disposable medical technology legislation; DMEPOS competitive bidding; In-the-Home restriction under Medicare DME benefit; essential health benefits; Medicare coverage of seat elevation and standing feature wheelchairs; Complex Rehabilitation Technology legislation; TCET legislation; Medicare coverage of hearing and vision technology; Medicare Coverage of titanium and carbon fiber wheelchairs.

Medicare inpatient rehabilitation hospital legislative and regulatory proposals; health care and entitlement reform; access to rehabiltiaon services; essential health benefits under the Affordable Care Act; Medicare post-acute bundling legislation; IRF Proposed Rule; IRF Review Choice Demonstration Proposal; three hour rule bill legislation.

Implementation of S.800/H.R. 1631, Enhancing the Structure and Visibility of Medical Rehabilitation Research at the NIH Act; NIH rehab issues; appropriations for rehabilitation research; COVID-19; long COVID research agenda; data collection for disability populations; DEIA efforts at NIH.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

ENCOMPASS HEALTH CORPORATION

COALITION TO PRESERVE REHABILITATION

ORTHOTIC & PROSTHETIC ALLIANCE

NATIONAL ASSN FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHOTICS & PROSTHETICS

INDEPENDENCE THROUGH ENHANCEMENT OF MEDICARE AND MEDICAID (ITEM) COALITION

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION

DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH COALITION

AMERICAN THERAPEUTIC RECREATION ASSOCIATION

DAVITA, INC.

AMERICAN COCHLEAR IMPLANT ALLIANCE

AMERICAN MEDICAL REHABILITATION PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION