Robert Mazer is senior counsel with Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz. An experienced health care attorney, he advises health care providers on a broad range of payment and compliance issues and related business arrangements, including hospitals, medical groups, and independent laboratories. He also defends companies facing government investigations and those who are parties to regulatory or payment disputes with a government agency, CMS contractor, or private insurer.
Professor Mazer’s financial background, including prior service on the AICPA committee that develops the Audit and Accounting Guide for Health Care Organizations, provides him with a substantial knowledge base regarding accounting principles, cost computations and fair market value determinations. He has co-authored compliance manuals related to Medicare fraud and abuse prohibitions, generally, and the Stark Law, specifically. A frequent lecturer and author, Professor Mazer has spoken at conferences sponsored by the American Institute of CPAs, American Health Law Association, and the Health Care Compliance Association. He is AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbel and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Health Care Law (2021- 2025). He is a 1979 graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law where he was research editor of the Maryland Law Review.