Tom Koutsoumpas is the Founder and CEO of NPHI, the national membership organization advancing the work of nonprofit hospice, palliative care and advanced illness care providers. He sets NPHI’s strategic direction and builds partnerships that extend members’ expertise across the healthcare continuum. Central to his leadership is developing new models of care that reach people earlier in their illness and help them receive high-quality care wherever they call home. 

A nationally recognized healthcare executive and policy leader, Tom has dedicated his career to improving care for people with serious illness and strengthening support for their families. His experience spans the development of the Medicare hospice benefit and executive leadership of major national healthcare organizations. At NPHI, he brings that perspective to a national effort to strengthen mission-driven providers and shape a healthcare system that better responds to patients’ needs. 

Under Tom’s leadership, NPHI established its Innovation Lab to bring members’ clinical expertise together and translate promising ideas into practical improvements in care. Through collaborative initiatives and national partnerships, NPHI helps nonprofit providers improve quality while developing sustainable approaches to caring for people with complex needs. 

In 2023, Modern Healthcare named Tom one of its Top Innovators. In 2024, NPHI was recognized in Fierce Healthcare’s Fierce 50 Innovators category for its work transforming hospice and palliative care. These honors reflect Tom’s commitment to innovation and the collective impact of NPHI’s nonprofit provider community. 

Tom is also Founder and President of Healthsperien, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based healthcare policy consulting firm working at the intersection of public policy and business strategy. He guides its efforts to help organizations navigate complex policy issues and advance sustainable healthcare innovation, with the goal of improving the lives of millions of Americans. 

As Co-Founder and President of Advance Care Innovations (ACI), Tom helps advance clinically excellent, financially sustainable home-based care for the most medically complex patients. His work brings clinical and operational expertise together to develop value-based approaches that strengthen geriatric care. 

Tom co-founded and previously served as Board Chair of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), mobilizing healthcare leaders and advocates to improve care for people living with advanced illness. He is also a co-founder and active leader of ACTNow for Mental Health, a nonprofit working to expand access to mental health services and reduce stigma among young adults. 

Previously, Tom served as President and CEO of Capital Caring Health, one of the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit hospice and palliative care organizations, serving patients throughout the nation’s capital and surrounding region. He led organizational transformation to strengthen comprehensive care and expand access regardless of patients’ ability to pay. He continues to serve as Chairman of its Board. 

Earlier in his career, Tom collaborated closely with former Congressman Paul Rogers at Hogan & Hartson, now Hogan Lovells, to develop the Medicare hospice benefit, helping establish a foundation for care that has served millions of patients and families. At VITAS Healthcare, he led a major expansion into multiple states. He later founded the government affairs department at UnitedHealthcare and held senior executive roles at UnitedHealth Group. 

Tom’s public service includes serving as Senior Advisor and Executive Assistant for Federal Affairs to Indiana Governor Evan Bayh. He began his career working for U.S. Senator Birch Bayh in multiple advisory capacities, including as his health legislative assistant. At Burson-Marsteller, he established the firm’s first government affairs division and helped manage communications during the Tylenol capsule crisis. He also served as Senior Vice President and Founding Executive Director of the Mintz Levin Center for Health Law & Policy. 

Tom’s broader leadership includes participation in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness and the Project on Advanced Care at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center. 

His work was profiled in The Wall Street Journal’s 2023 article, “Tom Koutsoumpas Wants to Ease the Ordeal of Dying,” and featured in Hospice News, including its Changemakers series. In 2022, he was included among the Top 300 candidates for Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare recognition. 

Tom co-authored A Roadmap for Success: Transforming Advanced Illness Care in America and wrote the foreword to Having Your Own Say: Getting the Right Care When It Matters Most (2012). 

He holds a B.A. in American Studies from Georgetown University, attended Georgetown University Law Center and is a former member of Georgetown’s Board of Regents.