Terry Coleman

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: Current; Experience at both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services)enables Terry to address issues in both areas and provides a rare capacity to deal with issues that cut across the two agencies' authorities. Illustrative problems that he regularly advises on include Medicare coverage of products and technologies, the risks of various practices under the fraud and abuse laws, Medicaid rebates, Medicare payment policies affecting physicians and other providers, and issues of FDA law.Terry began his legal career at the FDA, where he rose to serve as Associate Chief Counsel for Food. Subsequently, he worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where he served for a year as Acting General Counsel. During his time at HHS he also worked for the Health Care Financing Administration as both Chief Counsel and Deputy Administrator.

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