Mark S. Hedberg

With a deep knowledge of the business and regulatory matters facing the industry, Mark focuses on delivering creative, cost-effective solutions for his health care clients.

Mark has been advising regional and national health care clients on complex business issues for more than 25 years. He works primarily with large integrated delivery systems, hospitals and multihospital health systems, and multispecialty group practices.

He frequently handles matters involving regulatory compliance, including anti-kickback and “Stark” law issues, health information exchange, and health record interoperability, privacy and security issues. He has worked closely with large multispecialty physician practices in formulating and implementing physician compensation plans.

Mark has extensive experience advising on business transactions between and among providers and practitioners, corporate governance issues, certificate of public need requests and appeals, and physician credentialing, medical staff relations and physician disciplinary matters.

He is also a member of the firm’s blockchain working group and has focused on the impact of distributed ledger technology in health care.

Relevant Experience

• Advised health system clients regarding joint venture transactions, affiliation/acquisition transactions and physician practice acquisitions.
• Advised hospital and health system clients on physician compensation, recruitment and/or employment arrangements.
• Advised clients on internal and external investigations of fraud and abuse matters and self-disclosure filings with the CMS Office of Inspector General, local US Attorneys’ Offices and other government agencies.