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Mary L. Hendrickson

Of Counsel

Mary L. Hendrickson

Of Counsel

Mary Hendrickson draws on her years of in-house experience to help clients navigate regulatory laws and compliance programs, as well as transactional matters. She knows how to balance the demands of business and law to reduce risk and develop creative solutions to complex issues. In addition to being an attorney, Mary is a Pharm.D. and has practiced pharmacy in multiple practice settings.

Mary has extensive experience advising pharmacies and health care entities, including health care systems and providers, wholesale distributors, reverse pharmaceutical distributors, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) on regulatory, transactional, and compliance program matters. She advises companies on regulatory compliance matters involving state pharmacy boards, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Medicare Part D, and 340B programs, as well as related health care regulations. In addition, she has specific clinical trial experience, having overseen an office of clinical research and innovative care compliance at a large academic health system, as well as compliance oversight of clinical trial logistics at a large wholesale distributor.

She has in-depth experience evaluating, restructuring, and advancing compliance programs of all sizes and advising executive management and board members on compliance matters, including the audit committee鈥檚 responsibility associated with compliance program oversight and enterprise risk management (ERM) programs. Mary is adept at guiding companies through these many risks and challenges to achieve a positive outcome.

In addition, Mary has extensive experience working in the health care and pharmaceutical supply chain, including with wholesale distributors, third-party logistics (3PLs), and reverse pharmaceutical distributors. Her experience includes advising all types of entities that intersect with EPA, FDA, DEA, and other health care regulators to minimize risk in managing not only the forward movement of product in the supply chain, but also the return of product or disposition of hazardous, pharmaceutical, infectious, medical, and controlled substance waste.

Before joining 麻豆传媒, Mary served on the leadership teams at companies of various sizes, including Fortune 10 companies. In these roles she distilled complex regulatory and compliance concepts to inform and lead business solutions, reduce risk, and increase operational efficiency. Throughout her career, she has been a trusted advisor to executive teams, board members, management, and staff in both private and publicly held companies.

Affiliations

  • Member, Wall Street Journal Chief Compliance Officer Council
  • Member, Illinois State Bar Association

Presentations and Publications

June 1, 2026 Health Care Law Today

Clinical Trial Transparency Enforcement: A Practical Guide for Sponsors and Research Sites After FDA鈥檚 April 2026 Reminders

On April 13, 2026, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) publicly disclosed that it had sent targeted reminder messages on March 30, 2026, to more than 2,200 sponsors and researchers concerning over 3,000 registered clinical trials that appear to lack required results postings on ClinicalTrials.gov.
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June 1, 2026 Health Care Law Today

FDA鈥檚 One-Day Inspectional Assessments Pilot: A Risk-Based Shift in Oversight 鈥 What Regulated Entities Need to Know and How to Comply

On May 6, 2026, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced the launch of a pilot program for one-day inspectional assessments 鈥 a new, streamlined screening tool designed to make the agency鈥檚 inspectional resources more targeted and efficient. Then former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, M.D., M.P.H., described the initiative as a way to 鈥渟trengthen our inspectional approach by focusing our time and resources where they are most needed,鈥 while minimizing operational disruption for lower-risk establishments. There is no indication from FDA that this initiative will change after Commissioner Makary鈥檚 recent resignation.
01 May 2024 Events

Inflation Reduction Act's Medicare Prescription Payment Plan: New CMS Guidance

麻豆传媒 special counsel Mary Hendrickson is speaking in a Strafford webinar panel titled 鈥淚nflation Reduction Act's Medicare Prescription Payment Plan: New CMS Guidance鈥 on May 1. This CLE program will provide guidance to health care counsel on the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) Medicare Prescription Payment Plan.
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November 7, 2023 Health Care Law Today

HHS OIG: New 鈥淕eneral Compliance Program Guidance鈥 Provides Voluntary Steps Towards Increased Effectiveness

In connection with the November 2023 Health Care Compliance Association鈥檚 (HCCA) Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference, and with acknowledgment by the Chief Counsel to the Inspector General, Rob DeConti, of the long partnership between the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the HCCA, the OIG issued its new 鈥淕eneral Compliance Program Guidance鈥 (GCPG) on November 6, 2023.