Marcy Hahn-Saperstein

Marcy Hahn-Saperstein advises hospitals, senior living facilities, physician groups and other healthcare providers as outside general counsel. Her practice draws on experience in healthcare finance and as in-house general counsel to a hospital system, giving her a perspective on the business and legal issues providers encounter in their operations. At Akerman, Marcy is Deputy Chair of the Healthcare Practice Group and Co-Chair of its Senior Living & Care Sector Team.

Much of Marcy’s work concerns the transactions and agreements through which healthcare providers organize, acquire and operate their businesses. She structures, drafts and negotiates equity and asset purchases, mergers, restructurings and joint ventures, and performs regulatory analyses for those transactions. Her work also encompasses operations transfer agreements; facility and equipment leases; professional and administrative services agreements; and facility management agreements. Beyond transactions, she advises on other agreements arising in providers’ day-to-day operations.

Marcy also assists clients with licensing, including securing regulatory approvals for initial licensure and for changes of ownership associated with mergers and acquisitions. Her corporate governance counsel includes preparing shareholder agreements, operating agreements and buy/sell agreements. Together, these aspects of her practice bring transactional, regulatory and operational considerations into her work for healthcare providers.

Before serving as outside counsel, Marcy was interim general counsel and secretary for Boca Raton Regional Hospital and its affiliates. Earlier, before entering the legal profession, she worked as a commercial healthcare banker for the U.S. subsidiary of National Westminster Bank, where she managed a nine-figure loan portfolio to the healthcare industry. That combination of in-house legal and banking experience informs her approach to the business and regulatory challenges facing healthcare organizations.

Multi-Hospital System:

Represented a multi-hospital system in New York in the structuring, drafting, and negotiating of a transaction with a large physician group providing professional and administrative services to six of the hospitals and providing administrative services to the overall system and related space and equipment leases.

Physician Practice Divorce and Dissolution:

Represented a 19-physician radiology practice through a complex business divorce and eventual dissolution, including drafting and negotiating the termination and release documents and guiding the client through the liquidation process.

CCRC Licensure:

Represented a Florida not for profit sponsor in the licensing of its affiliated continuing care retirement community, including independent living, assisted living, and a memory care unit.

Change of Ownership:

Represented a closely held mail order pharmacy and durable medical equipment provider through the change of ownership process with regard to licensure and Medicaid participation in all 50 states plus various territories arising from an $80 million private equity transaction.

• J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1994, cum laude, Cardozo Law Review, Editor
• B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Communications, 1987

Bars

• Florida
• New York

• Best Lawyers, 2018-2027, Listed in Florida for Health Care Law
• Palm Beach Illustrated Magazine 2022, Listed as a “Top Lawyer” for Healthcare Law

• Akerman Foundation, Board of Directors, 2022-Present
• The Florida Bar, Health Law Section, Executive Council Member
• American Health Law Association, Member
• National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Mid-South Florida Chapter, Past Chair

• Health Law Rx Blog, Co-Editor & Contributor
• Health Law Rx Blog, Co-Author, “DON’T FORGET YOUR LICENSE: Florida’s New Memory Care Services Specialty License for ALFs,” March 23, 2026
• Health Law Rx Blog, Co-Author, “New Florida Law Requires Licensed Health Care Facilities, Providers, and Practitioners to Promptly Refund Patient Overpayments,” June 10, 2025
• University of Florida (UF) Law’s Health Law Association, Speaker, “What is Health Law?” February 13, 2024
• Health Law Rx Blog, Co-Author, “Fix Your Weak Links in Your Medicaid Claims,” February 16, 2023
• Florida Bar Health Law Section’s Course on Representing the Physician 2023, Speaker, “KRAMER vs. KRAMER (M.D., P.A.): Negotiating a Physician Practice Divorce with Less Drama,” February 3, 2023
• Health Law Rx Blog, Co-Author, “Florida Medicaid Providers: Action is Required by October 1, 2022,” September 15, 2022
• Health Law Rx Blog, Author, “Don’t Just Phone It In – Avoiding Fraud in Telehealth Contracts,” August 1, 2022
• Health Law Rx Blog, Co-Author, “As COVID-19 Spreads, Florida Pharmacists’ Scope of Practice Expands,” June 18, 2020
• Health Law Rx Blog, Author, “It’s More Than PPE – Infection Control in Different Facility Settings,” April 10, 2020
• Health Law Rx Blog, Co-Author, “COVID-19: Florida Executive Order on Elective Healthcare Services,” March 25, 2020
• Health Law Rx Blog, Author, “Possible Changes to Stark Law in 2019,” March 27, 2019
• Health Law Rx Blog, Author, “Derailing the Gravy Train - Trump Unveils Plan to Reduce Drug Prices,” May 21, 2018
• Miami Today, Quoted, “Private Equity Funds and Hospitals Targeting More Physician Practices,” August 30, 2017
• Health Law Rx Blog, Author, “Potential Implications to the ACA Under the Incoming Republican Administration - Part III: Hospitals,” January 24, 2017
• Health Law Rx Blog, Author, “The AHA’s Letter to Santa Claus,” January 9, 2017
• Akerman Practice Update, Author, “New Year, New Resolutions, New Safe Harbors,” January 4, 2017
• The Florida Bar, Health Law Section Newsletter, Author, “Hospital Acquisitions of Physician Practices,” Vol. XVII, No.9, May 2016
• American Health Law Association, Co-Presenter, “The Anatomy of a Physician Practice Acquisition,” October 2015