Mr. Black is the Managing Member of the firm and a Member in the firm’s business and healthcare practice areas. Mr. Black’s practice focuses on health care and general business transactional work. Mr. Black has extensive experience representing public hospital districts, non-profit hospitals, physician and physician groups. His practice focuses on Medicare compliance, fraud and abuse, tax-exempt organization issues, public hospital district issues, professional and facility licensing, payor contracting, business organization and structures, governance, certificate of need, hospital/physician contracting, joint ventures, physician compensation, and equipment and office leasing. Mr. Black is a frequent speaker on the topics of fraud and abuse (Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute), physician and payor contracting.

Mr. Black is a member of the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys, American Health Lawyers Association, American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, and Washington State Bar Association (Health Law Section).

A Washington state native, Mr. Black graduated from Whitman College with a B.A. degree in Political Science. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law in Tacoma, where he served as Managing Editor of the Law Review. Mr. Black spent two years as Clerk to Justice Charles W. Johnson of the Washington State Supreme Court.