Andrew J. Hillman
Healthcare compliance and operations expert witness. Dallas, Texas.
Engagements are arranged through retaining counsel, plaintiff or defense, nationwide.
Subject-matter areas.
Each area below reflects businesses Andrew Hillman has owned, co-founded, or operated. Opinions are limited to subjects within that direct operating experience.
Surgical hospital and ASC operations
Formation, licensure, accreditation, staffing, and day to day business practice of surgical hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
Healthcare regulatory compliance
The Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and HIPAA as they arise in healthcare operations, ownership structures, and transactions.
Clinical and toxicology laboratory operations
CLIA-certified and high-complexity laboratory operations, including toxicology laboratory practice and laboratory compliance.
Pharmacy operations and licensure
Retail, compounding, and administrative pharmacy operations, pharmacy licensure, and wholesale pharmaceutical distribution.
FDA-regulated medical devices
Operations of FDA-regulated medical device companies, including products cleared through the FDA 510(k) pathway.
FDA regulatory pathway and product classification
Biologic product classification and the FDA regulatory pathway, the subject of his authored and indexed publications listed below.
Healthcare billing and reimbursement
Billing and reimbursement practice as it arises in hospital and ambulatory surgery center operations.
Healthcare company formation and transactions
Formation, ownership, operation, and disposition of healthcare operating companies, including public and private transactions.
Consulting expert or testifying expert.
Andrew Hillman is retained in either capacity. The role is fixed in writing at the outset, and the scope of any opinion is stated in the engagement agreement. He is not a licensed attorney. He offers operator testimony on healthcare business practice, not legal opinion.
Pre-filing case evaluation
Early assessment of the healthcare operations and compliance issues in a matter, including whether an operator opinion is available on the facts.
Discovery and document analysis
Review and analysis of operating records, contracts, policies, ownership documents, and billing records. Assistance framing document requests and deposition topics.
Expert report preparation
Preparation of a written report stating the opinions offered, the facts and data considered, and the basis for each opinion.
Deposition and trial testimony
Deposition testimony and testimony at hearing or trial, within the scope disclosed in the report.
The operating record behind the opinions.
Andrew Jonathan Hillman is a Dallas healthcare operator with three decades co-founding and running FDA-regulated surgical hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, clinical laboratories, and pharmacy businesses. Since 2022 he has served as an expert witness on healthcare operations, hospital business practice, and federal regulatory matters, engaged through retaining counsel.
His opinions rest on having built, licensed, staffed, and run these businesses. Where the operating record is incomplete on a given question, he states the limit rather than filling it with inference.
Ownership and licensure
- Past owner and operator of a Class A retail pharmacy, a Class G administrative pharmacy, and a wholesale pharmacy distributor.
- Past owner and operator of ambulatory surgical centers, acute care hospitals, and a rehabilitation hospital.
- Past owner and operator of clinical and toxicology laboratories.
- Past owner and operator of FDA-regulated medical device companies.
Companies and facilities in the record
Each entity below is documented in a primary public source. The filings, clearances, and registry records are indexed on the credentials and verification page.
- Dynacq Healthcare, Inc. (NASDAQ: DYII), a public healthcare company taken private. SEC filings under CIK 890908 include a 2013 Form 10-K and a 2014 SC 14D-9.
- Victory Medical Center facilities, including Plano, Craig Ranch in McKinney (CMS NPI 1164867198), and South Cross in San Antonio. The Victory hospitals were acquired by Nobilis Health Corp. (SEC EDGAR CIK 1409916), reported contemporaneously by Becker's Hospital Review, Becker's ASC, and GlobeNewswire.
- Surgery Specialty Hospitals of America, Pasadena, Texas (CMS NPI 1891718789), the facility operated under Dynacq Healthcare.
- Bone Solutions, Inc., Southlake, Texas, an orthobiologics company with eight FDA 510(k) clearances, including K161568 and K192674.
- United Toxicology (CMS NPI 1063707743), a toxicology laboratory.
- Prestonwood Surgery Center (CMS NPI 1225225154) and Medical Edge Healthcare Group (CMS NPI 1063573541).
- The Apothecary Shop pharmacies, formerly Over the Counter, and Digimed, both taken private.
Authored and indexed publications
ORCID iD 0009-0001-5396-321X. Each item below carries a registered DOI and is indexed in OpenAIRE. Titles are listed as published.
- Mesenchymal Stromal Cell-Derived Exosomes and Extracellular Vesicles Across Therapeutic Indications: A Structured Review of Published Preclinical and Early-Phase Clinical Study Designs, Administration Parameters, and Reported Outcomes. 2026. Structured review, CC BY 4.0, Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21209815.
- Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles for Tissue Repair Across Multiple Body Systems: A Narrative Review. 2026. Narrative review, CC BY 4.0, Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21047848. With co-author Keyon Jenani.
- Author profile, Academia.edu. Additional papers, including one on the Targeted Osmotic Lysis platform.
These publications are listed to document authorship and subject-matter familiarity. Nothing in them, and nothing on this site, is a claim of FDA approval, safety, or efficacy for any product or therapy.
How the work is conducted.
- Andrew Hillman provides impartial analysis based on documented evidence. He does not tailor an opinion to the retaining party.
- Compensation is not contingent on the outcome of any matter, and no fee is tied to a verdict, an award, or a settlement.
- Engagements are arranged through retaining counsel under a separate written agreement.
- Scope, current professional status, and any potential conflicts are disclosed before work begins.
- He is not a licensed attorney. He offers operator testimony on healthcare business practice, not legal opinion.
- Where the record does not support an opinion, he says so.
Inquire about an engagement.
Counsel inquiries only. A conflicts check is run before any substantive discussion of a matter.
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