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
- Colorado University, B.A. in Philosophy, 1977
- Magna cum laude
- Kansas University, J.D., 1980
- Order of the Coif
Admissions
- Missouri, 1980
- Kansas, 2006
- The Missouri Bar
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
- Kansas Bar Association
- Lawyers Association of Kansas City
- American Health Lawyers Association (Hospitals and Health Systems, Fraud and Abuse, Business Law and Governance and Physician Organizations Practice Groups)
- American Bar Association: Health Law Section
- Kansas Association of Hospital Attorneys: past President
- Missouri Society of Health Care Attorneys: past President
- Greater Kansas City Society of Health Care Attorneys: past Secretary and past President
- Center for Practical Bioethics: member of Board of Directors
Published Works
- AHLA Representing Physicians Handbook – Chapter 2 “Overview of Regulatory Issues Affecting Physicians”
Awards
- Named to The Best Lawyers in America for Health Care Law, 2018 – present
- Lawyer of the Year, Health Care Law, The Best Lawyers in America© 2018 for Kansas City, Mo.
Speaking Engagements
- Health Care Lawyers Beware: Legal Ethics and Managing the Risks of Corporate Representation, AHLA Fraud and Compliance Forum, September 2015, Baltimore.
- Maintaining Independence through Interdependence – Alliances between AMCs and Community Hospitals, AHLA, January 2015.
- Webinar, AHLA, AMCs and Regional Collaboratives: Formation and Legal Issues, sponsored by the Teaching Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers Practice Group, December 2014.
- Rural Affiliation Strategies: From Mergers to Franchises and Everything In-Between, AHLA Health Care Transactions Conference, April 2013, Nashville.
- Hospital and Physician Integration Relationships, Kansas Bar Association Spring 2011 Health Law Conference, April 2011.