Below is a list of Healthcare Regulation and Compliance practice areas in which Dell Graham specializes. For more information and questions on how we can help you in the area of Healthcare Regulation and Compliance click here to email Mark S. Thomas.


Contracting & Business Operations

  • Physician employment
  • Physician recruitment and relocation
  • Hospital-based physician groups
  • Hospital-sponsored research and Internal Review Board
  • Patient Safety Organizations
  • Equipment and space leasing
  • Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, CHAMPUS
  • Managed care organizations
  • Physician affiliation
  • Physician group practice formation and dissolution
  • Hospital medical staff privileging and credentialing
  • Professional staff employment
  • Joint ventures
  • Group purchasing organizations
  • Commercial insurance

Regulation & Compliance

  • Kickbacks/fee-splitting
  • Securities
  • Hospital emergency access
  • Hospital physician privileging/credentialing/discipline
  • Joint Commission accreditation
  • Self-referral (“Stark”)
  • Antitrust
  • Hospital peer review/sentinel events/adverse incidents (”Code 15s”)
  • Medicare Conditions of Participation
  • HIPAA/medical records operations

Defense & Litigation

  • Whistleblower investigations
  • Search warrants/subpoenas/civil investigatory demands
  • Reimbursement recoupments
  • Licensure/certification/complaint investigations
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Attorney Spotlight

Mark S. Thomas


Mark concentrates his practice on representing health care providers, insurers and suppliers/manufacturers in regulatory matters. He specializes in Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement, state licensure and transactional compliance.

Mark is the immediate prior Chief of Staff of the State of Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, and the previous Director of the Florida Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. He has 24 years of experience in hospital, physician and managed care regulation and compliance.

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