Megan Hardiman

Megan Hardiman draws on her broad regulatory background to advise clients on Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute compliance matters, state fee-splitting and corporate practice of medicine prohibitions, tax exemption issues and corporate governance matters. She also has significant depth in the area of health information privacy and security, including HIPAA and the HITECH Act. 

Ms. Hardiman's transactional experience includes sales, acquisitions and affiliations involving a wide variety of health care industry clients, such as hospitals and health systems, home infusion companies, senior housing providers, urgent care centers and medical colleges. She has represented tax-exempt health systems in structuring numerous complex joint operating agreements and affiliations with unrelated health systems, and has obtained favorable rulings from the Internal Revenue Service on the consequences of these and other transactions among tax-exempt organizations.

Ms. Hardiman received her Bachelor of Science degree in journalism, with high honors, from the University of Illinois in 1990 and her Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1993. She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the American, Illinois and Chicago bar associations. Ms. Hardiman has written articles for the American Health Lawyers Association and other industry publications.