Thomas Mills

Thomas Mills is Office Managing Partner and Chair of the Health Care Practice at Winston & Strawn in Washington, DC. He concentrates his practice on the legislative and regulatory aspects of health care. Mr. Mills has represented the interests of a range of health care providers, including hospitals, health maintenance organizations, and other managed care providers; physician practice management companies; the entire range of extended care providers; major financial institutions involved in equity and debt financing, both public and private; and national associations representing providers of outpatient services, as well as independent providers of such services. These services have included skilled nursing services, home health, ambulatory surgery, dialysis, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, radiation therapy, home infusion therapy, diagnostic imaging, cardiac catheterization, durable medical equipment, and clinical diagnostic laboratory services. Mr. Mills has assisted in the defense of several highly publicized criminal prosecutions of individuals and corporations accused of health care fraud. He has argued cases before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Provider Reimbursement Review Board and the Health and Human Services Departmental Appeals Board, as well as the federal courts, and has successfully challenged regulations promulgated by CMS concerning provider reimbursement rates and the Physician Self Referral Law. (This is me - Update Profile)