Since joining Seigfreid Bingham in 1980, Mark Thompson has been advising health care providers across the country, gaining a reputation as an experienced, understanding, and strategic legal adviser. He has lead the firm’s Health Care Industry Group for over 15 years, and today Mark brings his legal experience to bear in helping you take on challenges from the Affordable Care Act, changing Payor initiatives based upon the Triple Aim (improving population health and the patient experience of care and controlling increases in the cost of care delivery), expanding federal and state regulations, and  dynamic changes in the health care marketplace.

Mark can serve you as the legal member of your strategic advisory team whether you are a multi-hospital health care system, a stand-alone acute care hospital, a physician group practice, an individual physician, or one of the many other providers of health care items or services.

A thriving health care practice built on 35 years of experience.

Mark’s practice is focused on 30-plus years of health care experience. His knowledge of the ever-evolving laws, paired with his practical problem solving approach, make him the ideal attorney for those seeking counsel on how to navigate the legal landscape to reach their goals. His clients not only appreciate his command of health care law, but also his respectful, responsive, and timely nature.

Health care knowledge to move your business forward.

His experience spans a broad range of knowledge including Stark and Anti-Kickback laws, tax exempt organization law, sales, acquisitions, joint ventures and other provider combinations, governance issues, executive compensation, physician recruitment and contracting, managed care contracting, licensing, corporate practice of medicine and other state law issues, health care technology procurement, financing and use, and a host of other legal issues associated with creation, operation, and disposition of health care organizations.

He can also counsel your hospital, health care system, group or solo practice, ASC, diagnostic center, or provider organization on general business transactions and organizational matters. Challenge Mark to help you navigate the legal terrain to move your organization or practice forward.

Representative Clients

• Ballad Health
• Maury Regional Medical Center
• Centrus Health
• Surgicenter of Johnson County Partners, LLC
• Health Network of Missouri
• Premier Specialty Network
• Midwest Nephrology Consultants
• Southeast Kansas Orthopedics

Representative Transactions

• Merger of Mountain States Health Alliance and Wellmont Health System to create Ballad Health
• Audrain Medical Center affiliation with SSM Health System
• Lincoln County Medical Center lease of hospital to Mercy Health System
• Several sales of medical practices and related employment agreements
• Several hospital-physician joint ventures
• Organization of multiservice line Provider Network (ACO, M.A. health plan, Medicaid, self funded Employer Plans)
• Outside general counsel to clinically integrated health network