Thomas Scully

 Tom Scully is a general partner with Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a private equity firm in New York, which is the most active U.S. private equity investor in healthcare. Scully was the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, from 2001 to 2004.

CMS administers Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, and is the largest agency in the U.S. Government, spending more than $1 trillion for fiscal year 2015.

At CMS, Scully had an instrumental role in designing and passing Medicare reform and Medicare Part D legislation, and in making the vast agency more open and accountable to the public.He initiated the first public reporting and disclosure for comparative quality among hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies and dialysis centers.

Before joining CMS, he served as President and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals from 1995 to 2001. The FAH represents 1700 privately owned hospitals.

Scully was a Partner in Washington, D.C., with Patton Boggs, LLP, 1993-95; Deputy Assistant to the President and Counselor to the Director OMB, 1992-93; and an Associate Director of OMB, 1989-92.  He worked on the Bush for President campaign in 1988; practiced law with Akin Gump from 1985-1988; and served with US Senator Slade Gorton (WA), 1980-1985.

Scully is also a member of the Board of Directors of Ardent Healthcare, CareSpot, NaviHealth, Oxford Finance, Select Medical Corp, and Universal American Corp, Board of Overseers of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, and the Advisory Board of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University