Colin Roskey

Colin Roskey serves as counsel in Alston & Bird’s Washington-based health law and legislative practice, where he provides strategic advice and counseling on statutory and regulatory issues affecting hospitals, physicians, long term care providers, pharmaceutical manufacturers and device and diagnostic companies and medical equipment manufacturers. Prior to this, Roskey served as health policy adviser and counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, where he worked on a small team responsible for Medicare and Medicaid policy development, including the design, development and drafting of the landmark Medicare Modernization Act of 2003.

With more than ten years of health law and policy experience in Washington, Roskey’s presentations are a bipartisan look into broad political strategy and the operational side of health care providers and product manufacturers. He has unique insight into the issues before the major House and Senate authorizing committees, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and other executive agencies, including the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and the Government Accountability Office.

Healthcare presider.  Roskey has extensive experience in Medicare payment system design and operation, with particular emphasis on ambulatory services. He has helped clients achieve significant legislative objectives in the last three major Social Security Act bills passed by Congress, including the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (improved access to colon cancer screening services); the Tax Relief and Healthcare Act of 2006 (one year payment update provision for kidney dialysis composite rate services); and the Medicare, Medicaid and S-CHIP Extension Act of 2007 (permanent relief from restrictive admission policy for rehabilitation hospitals). He also is a regular speaker and writer on timely topics in health policy for professional associations and the investment community. He is a frequent contributor to the American Health Lawyers Association Regulation, Accreditation and Payment practice group publications, authoring detailed articles on proposed payment system reforms for ambulatory surgery centers and hospital quality reporting initiatives.

Help in pursuit of health. Roskey’s work on the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, included helping with the creation of the Part D outpatient prescription drug program, the Medicare Advantage system and authorized other fee-for-service program improvements. Roskey also advised the Committee on issues relating to the creation of new health insurance coverage options for displaced workers, patients’ rights legislation, HIPAA and special payment policies that supported rural provider function. In addition, Roskey advised then-Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on issues relating to federal False Claims Act enforcement policy, the Medicare Secondary Payer law and oversight and investigation issues affecting Department of Health and Human Services program and individual providers and suppliers.

Before joining the Finance Committee staff, Roskey practiced health care law in the Washington office of a major Boston law firm and worked as a reporter and researcher for the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call.