Hogan & Hartson’s health practice is grounded in an in-depth understanding of the industry’s relationship with the U.S. federal government. Most of our health lawyers have had experience in government, industry, or both. These lawyers work on teams and tap the experience of other partners and associates around the world in helping resolve our health clients’ most challenging business problems. For our health industry clients, we often act not only as their regulatory lawyers, but also as their strategic advisors, lobbyists, litigators, and dealmakers.

Ranging from start-ups to multi-national enterprises, our clients come from every part of the health sector of the economy. We represent national associations of academic health centers, ambulance services, biotechnology companies, cancer centers, hospices, hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers, nurses, physical therapists and physicians, among others. Because of the breadth of our practice, we bring multiple perspectives to the analysis of policy issues, business transactions, government investigations, and regulatory counseling.  

Former Leadership Positions

• Paul G. Rogers, former U.S. Representative from Florida's 11^th District and Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
• John Edward Porter, former U.S. Representative from Illinois’ 10th district and Chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education
• Clifford D. Stromberg, former Deputy Executive Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Isabel P. Dunst, former Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Marcy Wilder, former Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Darrel J. Grinstead, former Chief Counsel to the Health Care Financing Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Sheree Kanner, former Chief Counsel to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Robert Leibenluft, former Assistant Director for Health Care of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition and Chair of the Health Care Committee of the ABA Antitrust Section
• Barbara F. Mishkin, former Assistant Staff Director of the "Belmont Commission" (National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects), former Staff Director of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Ethics Advisory Board, and former Deputy Director of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
• Barbara Bennett, former Associate General Counsel of Vanderbilt University and former General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for TriPoint Health Group  
• Mark Sterling, former General Counsel and Secretary and later Senior Vice President for Strategic Development and Special Counsel for Regulatory Affairs of Vitas Healthcare Corporation
• Carol Licko, former General Counsel to Florida Governor Jeb Bush 
• Donna Boswell, former college professor and Legislative Assistant in the United States Senate as a Congressional Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Research in Child Development
• Alice Valder Curran, former trial attorney in the civil fraud section of the U.S. Department of Justice
• Helen Trilling, former Special Assistant to three consecutive general counsels of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and former Assistant General Counsel at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts
• Ann Morgan Vickery, former White House staff researcher and Director of the Executive Secretariat at the Treasury Department
• Thomas N. Bulleit, Jr., former psychiatric social worker and three-time Chair of the District of Columbia Bar's Health Law Section