Mark D. Polston

Mark Polston is a Partner in the firm’s Healthcare practice and Co-Chairs the firm’s Life Sciences and Healthcare Industry Group, which is comprised of more than 300 lawyers across the firm. As the former HHS Deputy Associate General Counsel for Litigation for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Mark has over 20 years of experience in Medicare reimbursement policy and Medicare fraud defense and represents numerous health care systems and hospitals in navigating the Medicare regulatory environment. Mark has served as the lead litigator on numerous Medicare reimbursement litigation cases defending providers against government enforcement actions, and frequently advises clients on Medicare reimbursement strategy and regulatory and compliance requirements.

For more than 20 years, Mark has counseled clients in navigating through the complex realm of Medicare, a regulatory environment so intricate that the Supreme Court has described it as “unintelligible to the uninitiated.”

Drawing upon his experience as CMS’s former chief litigation counsel, Mr. Polston represents hundreds of hospitals in Medicare reimbursement appeals. His cases typically challenge national Medicare reimbursement policies, with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake. On the defense side, Mark’s years of government fraud enforcement experience and Medicare knowledge translates to surgically effective representation of providers in Medicare fraud investigations.