Practice Areas

Bar Memberships

  • District of Columbia
  • Maryland

Industry Expertise

Education

  • BA, Fairfield University, 1979
  • JD, The Catholic University of America Law School, 1982

Mark R. Fitzgerald

Principal

Mark Fitzgerald is a principal with the law firm of Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC, with twenty five-years of health care law experience. His practice focuses on Medicare fraud and abuse, health care contracting, and corporate law. Mr. Fitzgerald advises clients on a daily basis on issues involving the federal anti-kickback statute, the Stark law, the federal False Claims Act, and the civil monetary penalties law.

Some of Mr. Fitzgerald’s projects have included: representing clients in civil investigations under the federal fraud and abuse laws; representing clients in voluntary disclosures to the OIG; developing compliance strategies for academic medical centers and affiliated faculty practice plans; structuring acquisitions and mergers of health care companies; and formation of health care joint ventures.

Mr. Fitzgerald graduated from Fairfield University in 1979 and the Catholic University of America Law School in 1982, where he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Catholic University Law Review. Mr. Fitzgerald is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland.

Honors & Distinctions

  • Mr. Fitzgerald has been recognized each year for exceptional standing in the legal community for his health care practice in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2006 - 2012.
  • Mr. Fitzgerald was named one of twelve “Outstanding Hospital Lawyers – 2003” by Nightingale’s Healthcare News, July/August 2003.

News & Publications

Speaking Engagements

  • Overview of Federal Anti-Kickback Law; June 2010 & 2011 (American University Washington College of Law, Health Law Institute 2010)(Mark Fitzgerald and Johanna Michaels Kreisel)
  • Modernize Patient Assistance Programs, September 19, 2008 (Institute for International Research Program)
  • Hospital-Physician Contracting and P4P Incentives, September 24, 2007 (American Health Lawyers Association Fraud & Compliance Forum)
  • Compliance Issues Affecting Manufacturer Patient Assistance Programs, September 26-27, 2006 (AHLA/HCCA Fraud and Compliance Forum)
  • The Future of Patient Assistance Programs, July 18, 2006 (10th Anniversary 340B Conference)
  • Update on Gainsharing and P4P Initiatives, March 3, 2006 (HCCA Mid-Atlantic Annual Conference)
  • Patient Assistance Programs and Compliance Issues, February 27, 2006 (PHPC Medicare Rx and Patient Assistance Programs: Key Issues for 340B Stakeholders)
  • Stark II, Phase II: What Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Need to Know and Do, May 27, 2004 (audio conference sponsored by the American Health Lawyers Association)
  • Stark II, Phase II: How It Affects Relationships Between Hospitals and Physicians, May 14, 2004 (District of Columbia Hospital Association Seminar Program Series)
  • Financial Support Arrangements between Academic Medical Centers and Faculty Practice Plans, January 23, 2004 (American Health Lawyers Association Program)
  • Financial Support Arrangements between Academic Medical Centers and Faculty Practice Plans, June 4, 2003, (audio conference sponsored by the American Health Lawyers Association and the American Association of Medical Colleges)
  • Hospital Outlier Payment Issues, with Thomas Scully, Administrator, CMS, March 19, 2003 (audio conference sponsored by the American Health Lawyers Association)
  • OIG Audits of Medical Education Payments to Teaching Hospitals, Philadelphia, PA, January 22, 2003 (sponsored by Healthcare Financial Management Association, Metro Philadelphia Chapter)

Professional Activities

  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • DC Bar Association
  • Maryland Bar Association
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