Margia
CornerShe / Her / Hers

Partner
Margia Corner

Overview

Margia Corner helps healthcare organizations navigate complex regulatory challenges in the Medicare and Medicaid programs and transform healthcare delivery towards value-based care.

With more than 10 years of experience in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, Margia provides strategic counsel to academic and nonprofit health systems, federally qualified health centers, clinical laboratories, pharmacies, healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical device companies and health plans on coverage, payment, compliance and innovative approaches to payment and care delivery. Margia represents clients in payment audits, overpayments and challenges to audit findings through state and federal administrative proceedings. Her success in Medicare and Medicaid payment appeals has helped her clients recover millions of dollars in reimbursement.

Margia also helps clients navigate many other federal and state healthcare laws, including the 340B Drug Pricing Program, the Stark, Anti-Kickback and Civil Monetary Penalties laws, the No Surprises Act, state licensing and certification, and federal and state civil rights regulations.

Prior to joining the firm, Margia served as Co-Interim Deputy General Counsel for Health Affairs, Privacy & Data Protection at the University of California Office of General Counsel.

Margia is a member of the firm’s Women in Healthcare Leadership Collaborative.

Outside the office, Margia enjoys running and hiking with her dog and rooting for Michigan sports with her husband.

Credentials
Clerkships

Law clerk to the Honorable Cormac J. Carney, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Education

J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2010, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif

B.A., Stanford University, 2004, with distinction 

Admissions

California 

District of Columbia

Memberships
  • American Health Law Association (2011-Present)
    • Vice Chair, Education, Academic Medical Center and Teaching Hospital Practice Group (2023-Present)
    • Special Topic Advisor, Regulation, Accreditation and Payment Practice Group Leader (2021-2022)
    • Regulation, Accreditation and Payment Practice Group Leadership Development Program (2020-2021)
    • Young Professionals Council (2019-2020)
  • California Society for Health Care Attorneys (2022-Present)
  • American Bar Association, Health Law Section (2022-Present) 
Thought Leadership

“Realizing the Value in Value-Based Care,” California Society for Healthcare Attorneys Annual Spring Meeting, April 2025

"Institute for Medicare & Medicaid Payment Issues, Health Equity Initiatives in Medicare and Medicaid," American Health Law Association, March 2024

"Advising Providers: Legal Strategies for AMCs, Physicians and Hospitals, Advancing Diversity in Academic Medicine After the Harvard/UNC Cases," American Health Law Association, February 2024

"Fostering a Just Culture to Promote Patient Safety," California Society for Health Care Attorneys, May 2023

"340 Program Compliance," UC Ethics Compliance and Audit Symposium, November 2022

"The Future of Medi-Cal," California Society for Health Care Attorneys, April 2022

"Institute for Medicare & Medicaid Payment Issues, Advancing Accountability and Equity through Payment and Care Delivery," American Health Law Association, March 2022

"Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Institute, Advancing Accountability and Equity through Payment and Care Delivery," American Health Law Association, February 2022

"Institute for Medicare & Medicaid Payment Issues, Key Recent CMS Innovation Initiatives: Exploration of Policy and Legal Issues," American Health Law Association, March 2021

"Strategic Legal and Business Considerations Regarding Contract Pharmacy Arrangements," 340B Health Winter Conference 2021, February 2021

"Medicare and Other Value-Based Payment Programs and Compliance
Oversight," Health Care Compliance Association, December 2019

"340 Program Compliance," UC Ethics Compliance and Audit Symposium, November 2019

"Institute for Medicare & Medicaid Payment Issues, Innovation in a Nutshell: Key Recent CMS Payment Initiatives, Where They Came From, and What You Should Know," American Health Law Association, March 2019

'MACRA - Compliance Oversight," Health Care Compliance Association, December 2017

  • "Moving the Needle? Recent CMS Efforts to Advance Health Equity," AHLA Connections Magazine, March 2023
  • "Change Remains on the Horizon for Medicare Payment Policies for Organ Acquisition," AHLA Bulletin, November 2022
  • "CMS Proposes to Expand Its Authority to Deny or Revoke Provider/Supplier Enrollment," AHLA Bulletin, August 2021
  • "Questions and Answers to Consider When Finding and Taking Advantage of a Clerkship or Fellowship at a Health Care Organization," AHLA Connections Magazine, September 2019
  • "The Medicare Quality Payment Program: Transforming Health Care Delivery to Paying for Value," AHLA, Health Care Compliance Professional’s Manual, 2017