Faculty Profile: Mary Fortugno

Mary Beth provides legal services for four of the nation's leading hospital companies, along with many other healthcare providers regionally and locally, focusing on transactions, operations, healthcare regulatory matters and investigations. Having managed matters ranging from licensure diligence and new applications to major transactions and fraud and abuse investigations and as former operations counsel to IASIS Healthcare, she has built a reputation within the industry for her knowledge and operational guidance.

Mary Beth serves as a Vice Chair for the AHLA Hospital Health Systems practice group and has robust experience with healthcare regulations and particularly healthcare fraud and abuse.  This year, she participated in our representation of HealthTech Management Services, Inc. (HTMS) in exercising its rights as a victim under the federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act in a federal criminal prosecution and in litigating a related civil lawsuit, which resulted in summary judgment against the employees who had defrauded our client and ultimately judgments of $3.5 million and $2 million against the employees.  She has also advised several healthcare clients undergoing transactions this year, including the recently announced AmSurg Corp. acquisition of Sheridan Healthcare for $2.35 billion.