Mary M. Hachenburg is Senior Counsel for Hospital Reimbursement Solutions, LLC (HRS) and also serves as Senior Counsel for Speisman Law Center and for The Quality Account Management Company (QAMCO). These entities focus on hospital reimbursement matters. Ms. Hachenburg’s expertise includes counseling hospitals on insurance coverage and denial disputes, and managed care contract drafting to enhance hospital revenue.
Ms Hachenburg is a dual professional with active licenses in law and nursing. She has extensive legal experience in healthcare insurance, having provided services nationally on behalf of hospitals and medical centers, as well as various healthcare providers. She has practiced at highly reputable law firms with international exposure. She currently focuses her practice on healthcare reimbursement matters on behalf of hospitals. She also has prior expertise as national counsel to health insurance companies, including Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, as well as providing coverage opinions on commercial insurance and reinsurance matters, including for Lloyd’s of London.
Her expertise includes healthcare regulatory law in consultation to major medical facilities nationally, as well as acting as national counsel for manufacturing entities such as Chrysler and Stanley Door Systems, involving product liability litigation. She has also provided defense of healthcare providers in medical malpractice, professional licensing and reporting matters, in medical staff credentialing disputes with hospitals and for physician residents in disputes with graduate medical education programs.
Prior to her legal education, she acted as Director of Maternal Child Health, often acting as the first on call for the hospital, in place of the CEO and Nursing Director. Subsequently, utilizing her dual legal and nursing expertise, she served as Interim Director of Case Management at a large medical center. In addition to obstetrical and neonatal nursing, she is also experienced in medical, surgical and cardiac intensive care, emergency care and recovery room nursing. She has educated registered nurses and paramedics in cardiac care and emergency newborn delivery. She has also provided expert nursing advice and case review on high risk deliveries and newborn care for the largest insurer of obstetricians in Illinois; and prepared guidelines for the insurer to further educate obstetricians on management of normal and high risk deliveries.
She achieved her Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School, a Masters of Law in Healthcare Law from Loyola University Chicago’s Institute for Health Law and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Minnesota.
She authored a chapter on managed care entities and telemedicine for the Managed Care Answer Book; wrote a chapter in book reporting on women’s rights for the Illinois legislature on the financial effects of divorce on mothers and their children. She co-authored an article on improper access to managed care discounts published by The Healthcare Financial Management Association Journal (HFM). She has authored several teaching models for the education of physicians and senior hospital managers on numerous matters of healthcare law, such as anti-referral (Stark) laws and physician recruitment and has lectured registered nurses on advance directives.