Mark S. Thomas of the Thomas Health Law Group in Gainesville and Santa Rosa Beach is Florida Bar Board Certified in Health Law and specializes in regulatory compliance. Thomas has represented a wide range of healthcare entities before the various government regulatory and law enforcement agencies for almost 30 years. Previously, he was chief of staff for the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration; director of the Florida attorney general’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit; senior attorney with the Florida Senate Health Committee; an administrator at Holy Cross Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale; and, a manager with the Humana Medical Plan in Miami. He has approximately 100 reported civil and criminal healthcare-related court decisions and has developed several of Florida’s most sophisticated hospital-based physician joint ventures. Thomas routinely handles practice transactional matters, to include start-ups, sales, and mergers. In addition to his law degree, Thomas has graduate degrees in Healthcare Finance and Health Services Administration. He has also taught health law at the University of Florida.