Timothy P. Trysla

Partner Alston & Bird, LLP

Timothy P. Trysla is a partner in the Health Care Practice Group and serves as leader of the Health Policy Team. Trysla has more than 30 years of health care policy experience in the private sector and executive and legislative branches of government. He served as chief of staff and former senior policy advisor at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In addition to advising the administrator on matters of Medicare and Medicaid policy, he worked as a liaison for CMS to the White House and Congress on Medicare reform and prescription drug coverage issues. He served as administrator-designee and speechmaker to large medical specialty and beneficiary groups and helped manage the development, passage, and implementation the Medicare Part D program. Trysla has been invited to speak on pharmaceutical pricing, Medicare Advantage reimbursement, and health care reform by numerous provider and investment groups, such as Pharmaceutical Education Associates, Financial Research Associates’ “Medicare Advantage Summit,” and the Wharton Health Care Business Conference. He was named in The Hill’s Top Lobbyist 2021.

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