Patricia Markus

Practice Areas

Cloud Computing, Licensing, & Transactions

Cybersecurity & Data Breach Response

Health IT

Healthcare Compliance & Operations

Healthcare Government Investigations & Litigation

Healthcare Providers & Suppliers

Healthcare Transactions

Privacy & Data Management

Career

Trish Markus represents healthcare providers and related organizations across the country on an array of healthcare regulatory compliance, reimbursement, licensure, and operational matters, with a special focus on issues surrounding health information privacy, security, and technology. She advises clients on HIPAA and privacy and security compliance, health information exchange initiatives, telehealth strategies, technology agreements, preparing for and responding to data breaches, and clinical research and other innovative uses of data. She also counsels clients on fraud and abuse issues, hospital-physician affiliations, value-based payment initiatives, and reimbursement appeals, and she serves as regulatory counsel to several behavioral health and substance abuse treatment providers.

Professional Memberships

American Health Lawyers Association:

Board of Directors (July 2015 – present)

Chair, HIT Practice Group (July 2012 - June 2015)

North Carolina Bar Association:

Member, American Telemedicine Association

Member, Health Information Management Systems Society

North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Legal Work Group (2006 – present)

American Health Information Management Association

Personal

Boston College Law School, JD

Haverford College, BA, English,with honors