Mark S. Hedberg

Mark is head of the firm’s health care practice group and has been advising regional and national health care clients on complex business issues for more than 35 years. Recognized as a leader in healthcare by Chambers USA, which describes his work as “very high quality” (2025), he primarily counsels large integrated delivery systems, academic medical centers, hospitals, and multispecialty group practices. He frequently handles matters involving regulatory compliance, including anti-kickback and “Stark” law issues, false claims act investigations and self-disclosures, health information exchange, health record interoperability, and privacy and security issues.

He has extensive experience advising universities and teaching hospitals on their affiliations with other academic medical center components, and has worked closely with large multispecialty physician practices and faculty practice plans in formulating and implementing physician compensation plans.

Mark also has significant experience advising on business transactions between and among providers and practitioners, corporate governance issues, and certificate of public need requests and appeals.

• Advised health system clients regarding joint venture transactions, affiliation/acquisition transactions, and physician practice acquisitions.
• Advised clients regarding affiliation arrangements between medical schools and their teaching hospitals/academic medical centers.
• Advised hospital and health system clients on physician compensation, recruitment, and/or employment arrangements.
• Advised clients on internal and external investigations of fraud and abuse matters and self-disclosure filings with the CMS Office of Inspector General, local US Attorneys’ Offices, and other government agencies.
• Advised clients on the requirements of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, business associate agreements, HITECH Act breach notification obligations, electronic health records, health information exchange, and related matters.
• Advised hospital clients on various certificate of public need matters involving prosecution of or opposition to applications for new hospitals, bed and operating room additions, equipment and/or service additions, and related court appeals.
• Represented major academic medical center in a significant restructuring.
• Represented hospital defendant in a significant qui tam lawsuit brought under the federal false claims act.
• Represented a nonprofit hospital in an unwind of a whole hospital joint venture with a major for-profit hospital chain.

• Recognized as a Leader in Healthcare, Virginia, Chambers USA, 2025-2026
• Selected as one of the Legal Elite, Virginia Business magazine, 2024-2025
• Selected as a Best Lawyer for Health Care Law, The Best Lawyers in America, 2007-2026
• Selected as Lawyer of the Year for Healthcare Law, Virginia, The Best Lawyers in America, 2019

• Member, Former Chair (2007-2008), Health Law Section Council, Virginia Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, American Health Lawyers Association

• Elder; Member of The Session (2007-2012, 2021-2026); Chair, Worship and Music Ministry (2009, 2021-2025); Chair, Nominating Committee and Leadership Development Ministry (2011-2012); River Road Presbyterian Church
• Past Director (2013-2016); Member, Audit Committee (2013-2016); Chair, Corporate Compliance Committee (2015-2016); Member, Executive/Nominating Committee (2015-2016); Member, Health Services Committee (2013-2014); Westminster-Canterbury Management Corporation
• Past Director, Children’s Home Society of Virginia