Hogan & Hartson represents hospitals across a wide spectrum of regulatory, transaction, and litigation matters. Our practice is national and international in scope, and has a particular focus on matters that require highly specific experience, often involving the application of multiple federal or state laws or regulations.

A distinguishing feature of our practice is the breadth and depth of the experience of our lawyers, many of whom have held senior government and other health care leadership positions. Another hallmark is our use of interdisciplinary teams of lawyers to meet the specific needs of hospital clients. Such a team might involve a health care regulatory lawyer with deep hospital industry experience, as well as a lawyer with specific experience related to the client's need. Our experience ranges from a False Claims Act case alleging improper Medicare billing, the need to structure physician or payor relationships to comply with antitrust and Stark law issues, tax and corporate governance practices, labor and immigration law concerns, medical education, clinical trials, or the restructuring of an entire health system. Experience and understanding of the hospital industry is invaluable in representing hospitals in litigation and transactions, as well as regulatory compliance matters. 

Former Leadership Positions

• Isabel P. Dunst, Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Marcy Wilder, Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Darrel J. Grinstead, Chief Counsel to the Health Care Financing Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Sheree Kanner, Chief Counsel to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Clifford D. Stromberg, Deputy Executive Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Robert F. Leibenluft, Assistant Director for Health Care of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition and Chair of the Health Care and Pharmaceuticals Committee of the ABA Antitrust Section
• Barbara F. Mishkin, Assistant Staff Director of the "Belmont Commission;” Staff Director of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Ethics Advisory Board; and Deputy Director of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
• Barbara Bennett, Associate General Counsel of Vanderbilt University and General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for TriPoint Health Group
• Alexander Dreier, Assistant to the Provost of the University of Oklahoma
• Helen Trilling, Special Assistant to three consecutive General Counsels of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Assistant General Counsel at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts
• Mark Sterling, General Counsel and Secretary and later Senior Vice President for Strategic Development and Special Counsel for Regulatory Affairs of Vitas Healthcare Corporation
• Deborah T. Ashford, Special Assistant for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and judge for U.N. Administrative Tribunal
• Jonathan Diesenhaus, Senior Trial Counsel in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice where he focused on the Stark Law, the health care anti-kickback statute, and the False Claims Act
• Carol Licko, General Counsel to Florida Governor Jeb Bush
• Michael Levinson, Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President, and General Counsel of two technology driven medical device companies
• Mitchell Lazris, Trial Attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Fraud Section
• Reed Stuntz, 17 years on the staff of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, including seven years for the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and 10 years as Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel to ranking Democrat John Dingell
• Steve Immelt, Ty Cobb, Peter Spivack, Michael Theis, and 10 other Assistant U.S. Attorneys, many of whom spend most or all of their time on health care related matters
• Paul Virtue, Executive Associate Commissioner and General Counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
• Craig Smith, General Counsel of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration

• Adventist Health System
• Advocate Health System
• American Hospital Association
• Baptist Health South Florida 
• Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Hennepin County Medical Center
• Methodist Hospital (Memphis)
• Piedmont Health System
• Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin (German Heart Institute, Berlin)
• Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann (Ernst von Bergmann Hospital, Potsdam)
• Evangelisches Waldkrankenhaus Apandau (Protestant Sylvan Hospital, Spandau, Berlin)