Mark Health Law

Advocates for Health Care Rights & Equity

Mark Health Law was founded by accomplished health care attorney and advocate Sara Haviva Mark.  Sara brings significant expertise and years of experience litigating complex and groundbreaking health care cases, as a former Special Counsel to the New York Attorney General’s Office and partner at a plaintiff’s firm.  Sara is deeply committed to advocating for health care rights and equity, and to ensuring that people obtain the type of care that they need and that they deserve.

Mark Health Law litigates health care cases and provides consulting services on health care legal strategy and compliance.  We welcome case referrals and co-counsel requests from non-profit organizations and other law firms representing plaintiffs in health care matters.  The firm is also available to serve as outside counsel to organizations and firms that need an experienced health care litigator.

Sara Haviva Mark

Founder and Principal Attorney

Sara Haviva Mark (she/her/hers) is the founder and principal attorney of Mark Health Law.  Sara is an experienced health care attorney and advocate for individuals, classes and organizations in the areas of health care rights and equity.  She represents these clients in a variety of matters involving the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), state insurance and health care-related laws, and consumer protection laws.  She has extensive experience in litigating and investigating insurance companies, drug manufacturers and distributors, hospitals, and employer health plans, as well as federal, state and local government actors. 

Before founding Mark Health Law, Sara was a partner at a plaintiff’s law firm where she helped build and lead the firm’s Health Care & Equity practice.  Prior to that, Sara served as Special Counsel for the New York State Attorney General’s Office (NYAG) for seven years.  There she led and co-led several multi-state litigations brought by state Attorneys General challenging health care-related rules promulgated by federal agencies during the Trump Administration.  Sara co-led the NYAG’s investigation of and settlement with the “big three” opioid distributors.  She also co-led the NYAG’s first enforcement actions brought against landlords for violations of the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention law.  For her work, on these and many other matters, Sara twice received the Louis J. Lefkowitz Award, the NYAG’s highest commendation for superior service.

Previously, Sara was the Executive Director & Post-Doctoral Fellow for the Center for Constitutional Governance at Columbia Law School, where she served as the managing editor of the book, “The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court’s Decision and Its Implications” (Oxford University Press). 

Sara began her career as a litigation associate at Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, where she represented plaintiffs in a wide range of complex commercial litigation.

  • Cornell Law School, J.D.

    New York University, M.P.A. in Health Policy

    Cornell University, B.A. in Philosophy

  • “The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court’s Decision and Its Implications” (Oxford University Press) (Managing Editor)

    “The Soda Ban Decision: What it Really Means” (Huffington Post)

    “Balanced Justice: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Criminal Justice Policy” (Institute for Policy Integrity)

  • American Bar Association, Health Law Summit, The Medical Debt Crisis, Covid-19, and Potential Legal Solutions (2022)

    Civil Rights Roundtable of New York & New Jersey, Civil Rights After Bostock v. Clayton County (2021)

    New York City Bar Association, Religious and Moral Exemptions to Contraceptive Mandate (2019)

    Cornell Law School, Frank H.T. Rhodes Public Interest Law Career Symposium (2018)

    NYU Law School, The Future of U.S. Healthcare Reform (2017)

  • City & State New York, Law Power 100

    New York State Office of the Attorney General, Louis J. Lefkowitz Award for Superior Service (2022 & 2021)

    Columbia Law School, Post-Doctoral Fellowship

  • State of New York

    State of Connecticut

    U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

    U.S. District Court, District of Columbia

    U.S. District Court, Northern District of California