Stephanie Hoffmann serves clients in the healthcare industry on an array of regulatory, operational, and transactional matters. She regularly assists hospitals, health systems, ambulatory surgical centers, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living/memory care/independent living facilities, and other provider types with mergers and acquisitions. Stephanie specializes in helping clients address the complex regulatory and licensure issues that can arise in the context of a transaction. Stephanie also advises clients on Medicare and Medicaid certification, compliance, and payment matters, as well as out-of-network balance billing laws and other issues affecting provider payment, including the No Surprises Act and the Hospital Price Transparency Rule. She has extensive experience helping clients navigate a variety of state and federal regulatory requirements, including facility licensure and the certificate of need application process.

Prior to joining the firm, Stephanie served in the business development unit of a commercial health insurance company, worked extensively on legal and economic issues related to the national health reform law, and worked in operations and development at an international women’s health organization.

Stephanie received her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as executive editor of the Journal of Business Law and president of the Bioethics Society. She also earned a Master of Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Stephanie completed her undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish with highest distinction. Stephanie has served as an adjunct professor of Biomedical Ethics at Belmont University College of Law.

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania, 2012
• North Carolina, 2011
• Tennessee, 2016

• United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit

Education

• University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 2011, Executive Editor, Journal of Business Law
• University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, M.B.E., 2011
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., 2006, with highest distinction; Carolina Scholars Chancellor’s Merit Scholarship; Phi Beta Kappa