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.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, William & Mary Law School, Order of the Coif; Board Editor, William and Mary Law Review, 1990

BA, Health Care Studies, College of the Holy Cross, 1987

• Advised health system clients on the implications of the 2010 health care reform legislation.
• Advised clients on the requirements of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, business associate agreements, HITECH Act breach notification obligations, electronic health records, health information exchanges, and related matters.
• Advised hospital and health system clients on physician compensation, recruitment and/or employment arrangements.
• Advised health system clients on the establishment of accountable care organizations.
• Advised health system clients regarding physician practice acquisitions, joint venture transactions and affiliation/acquisition transactions.
• Advised hospital clients on various certificate of public need matters involving prosecution of or opposition to applications for new hospitals, bed and operating room additions, equipment and/or service additions, and related court appeals.
• Represented major academic medical center in a significant restructuring and routinely advises such entity with respect to business transactions and regulatory matters.
• Represented hospital defendant in a significant qui tam lawsuit brought under the federal false claims act.
• Advised hospital clients on various physician disciplinary matters involving disruptive behavior and substandard clinical practice.
• Represented a nonprofit hospital in an unwind of a whole hospital joint venture with a major for-profit hospital chain.

• Member, Health Law Section Council, Virginia Bar Association; Former Chair, Health Law Section (2007-2008) Virginia Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, American Health Lawyers Association
• Elder, River Road Presbyterian Church; Member of The Session (2007-2012); Chair, Worship and Music Ministry (2009); Chair, Nominating Committee and Leadership Development Ministry (2011-2012)
• Past Director, Westminster-Canterbury Management Corporation (2013-2016); Member, Audit Committee (2013-2016); Chair, Corporate Compliance Committee (2015-2016); Member, Executive/Nominating Committee (2015-2016); Member, Health Services Committee (2013-2014).
• Past Director, Children’s Home Society of Virginia

• Selected as a Best Lawyer for  Health Care Law,  Best Lawyers in America,  2007-2017. A description of the selection methodology can be found on Best Lawyers’ webpage.

• Three Things in Healthcare - January 5, 2021

  By Mark Hedberg |January 2021

• Three Key Things in Health Care - December 22

  By Mark Hedberg |December 2020

• Three Key Things in Health Care - October 13, 2020

  By Mark Hedberg |October 2020

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