J. Mark Waxman

J. Mark Waxman

J. Mark Waxman is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he is chair of the Health Care Industry Team and a member of the White Collar Defense Practice and Life Sciences Industry Team.

Mr. Waxman's health care practice focuses on health care issues for for-profit and not-for-profit providers and payers. His experience in this area includes issues related to research and technology, integrated delivery systems, trade associations, governance, strategic business counseling, the antitrust implications of mergers and acquisitions, federal program fraud and abuse, reimbursement and managed care contracting.

His litigation experience includes jury and non-jury trials and extended arbitration proceedings. These disputes have involved complex commercial, class action, regulatory, health care and technology matters in state and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as the United States Supreme Court. He has resolved significant civil and criminal investigations in a number of states around the country.

Prior to joining Foley's Boston office, Mr. Waxman was president and general counsel of CareGroup, Inc., a nonprofit healthcare system which includes the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an academic health center affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, community hospitals and multiple physician organizations. During his tenure, the CareGroup System engaged in a unique turnaround, selling non-productive assets, reformed its board structures, dealt with state and federal regulators, engaged in a refinancing, and ultimately returned to financial health and investment grade in a new confederation model of nonprofit system activity.

While at CareGroup, Mr. Waxman also served as a board member of the CRICO Captive Insurance carrier, serving on its Underwriting and Intellectual Property Committees. He also became a board member and now serves as chairman of the Picker Institute. Mr. Waxman is a former board member of MedVentive, a managed care data and contract management company. He also serves as a volunteer mentor with the MIT Venture Mentoring Services.

Chambers, a company based in London that reviews and rates American lawyers and publishes its ratings for European and American businesses, rated Mr. Waxman to be one of the top healthcare attorneys in the state of Massachusetts for 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, Mr. Waxman was selected for inclusion in the Massachusetts Super Lawyers® lists. Only 5% of the lawyers in the state were selected. In 2005, Mr. Waxman was recognized as a Finalist, Entrepreneur of the Year, by Ernst & Young for the New England Region.

Prior to February of 2000, Mr. Waxman was a partner in the Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., offices of Foley & Lardner. He chaired the firm's mid-Atlantic and eastern United States health law practice. He was an assistant United States attorney for the Central District of California before associating with Foley & Lardner.

Mr. Waxman writes and lectures extensively on a variety of health care issues, including health system governance, medical research and technology, compliance, managed care, antitrust issues, and health care fraud and abuse. He has served as the chairman of the ABA Health Law Section Medical Research, Technology and Ethics Subcommittee. He has been a member of the American Hospital Association's Task Force on Antitrust and Business Coalitions and of the board of directors of the American Health Lawyers Association. He is a member of the BNA Health Law Reporter Advisory Board, BNA Medical Research Law & Policy Reporter Advisory Board, IRB Advisor Editorial Board, the American Health Lawyers Association, and the Healthcare Financial Management Association, serving as chairman of the Massachusetts Chapter Research and Education Committee.

Mr. Waxman is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley (J.D., 1973), where he was articles and book review editor of the Ecology Law Quarterly and the University of California, San Diego (B.A., summa cum laude, 1970). He was admitted to the California Bar in 1973, and the Massachusetts Bar in 2001 and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court, Central, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of California, the United States Court of Appeals, Eighth and Ninth Circuits, the United States Claims Court and the United States Supreme Court.