Heather Macre

Heather Macre is a health care attorney who leads Fennemore’s health care practice group. She advises physicians, medical practices, behavioral health organizations, and med spa and wellness businesses on practice formation, regulatory compliance, provider relationships, transactions, and disputes. Her aim is to help clients manage legal issues while they focus on caring for patients and running their practices. Heather is a director at Fennemore and the firm’s Co-Chief Privacy Officer.

Heather works with providers from the start of a new practice through its daily operations, growth, and transition. She helps clients assess regulatory risks, develop compliance plans, and put practical policies and procedures in place. Her team helps establish medical, mental health, and med spa and wellness practices and prepares the agreements, patient forms, consents, notices, and other documents they need to operate. She also advises on ownership structures, provider relationships, employment agreements, and healthcare transactions.

Her regulatory work includes HIPAA and patient privacy, fraud and abuse laws, the Stark Law, and False Claims Act matters. Heather drafts and negotiates physician and other provider agreements, hospital recruitment arrangements, restrictive covenants, and office-sharing agreements. When conflicts arise, she represents healthcare professionals and businesses in licensing and disciplinary proceedings, contract disputes, and healthcare and business litigation.

Heather also brings experience in bankruptcy and commercial litigation to matters where legal, financial, and operational concerns intersect. She helps clients understand their options and make decisions that account for their patients, their people, and their business.

Heather’s approach to problem-solving has roots in her early interest in art history. While earning her law degree at the University of Florida, she helped pay for school by performing as Belle from Beauty and the Beast. She still enjoys finding a fresh way through a complex problem.

Outside her practice, Heather serves as an elected director of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District. She lives with her husband, Steven Kruczek, their daughter, Dorothy, and their rescue dogs.

• J.D., University of Florida, Levin College of Law
• B.A. University of Florida

• Best Lawyers in America^®, Administrative / Regulatory Law, 2024-2027
• Best Lawyers in America^®, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights, Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Health Care Law, 2020-2027
• Top Lawyer – Health Care Law, Phoenix Magazine, 2026
• Southwest Super Lawyers^®, Bankruptcy: Business 2019-2026
• Top Lawyers, Phoenix Magazine, 2025
• Southwest Super Lawyers^®, Rising Star, 2014-2016
• Nominee, American Bankruptcy Institute 40 Under 40, 2017
• Honoree, Phoenix Business Journal 40 Under 40, 2015

• Co-Author, “Fennemore’s Industry Analysis of the Rescheduling of Medical Marijuana,” Fennemore Blog, May 21, 2026
• Co-Author, “Colorado’s New “Know Your Health-Care Practitioner Act” Takes Effect June 1, 2026,” Fennemore Blog, May 19, 2026
• Featured, “Who’s Who in Arizona Healthcare for 2025,” AZ Big Media, November 19, 2024
• Featured, “Opinion: What to know about Central Arizona Water Conservation District candidates,” AZ Central, October 17, 2024
• Featured, “Who’s Who in Arizona Healthcare for 2024,” AZ Big Media, January 9, 2024
• Author, “Big Changes Are Coming to HIPAA Privacy Laws Heading into Summer,” inBusiness, June 1, 2023
• Author, “What you should know about recent changes to HIPAA privacy laws,” The Business Journal, May 2, 2023
• Author, “What you should know about recent changes to HIPAA privacy laws,” AZ Big Media, May 2, 2023
• Interview, “Legal, Healthcare Trends Impacts Arizonans,” Arizona PBS, March 16, 2023
• Author, “Legal requirements of senior living residency agreements,” City Sun Times, January 29, 2023
• Author, “How to choose an elder care facility,” Ahwatukee Foothill News, September 13, 2022
• Author, “Legal Requirements of Senior Living Residency Agreements,” AZ Big Media, July/August 2022
• Interview, “What You Need to Know Choosing Elder Care Facility,” Arizona PBS, June 2022
• Author, “New No Surprises Act reducing the number of unexpected medical bills,” Phoenix Business Journal, June 22, 2022
• Interview, “Attorney Heather Macre explains new surprise billing law,” Arizona PBS, March 28, 2022
• Interview, “Outstanding Women in Business 2022: Get to know Heather Macre of Fennemore,” Phoenix Business Journal, March 24, 2022
• Quoted, “Introducing PBJ’s 2022 Outstanding Women in Business honorees, Part 2,” The Phoenix Business Journal, February 15, 2022
• Co-author, “OSHA Issues Emergency Temporary Standard for Health Care Employers,” Fennemore Client Alert, July 8, 2021
• Co-author, “Arizona Enacts COVID-19 Liability Protections for Health Professionals,” Fennemore Client Alert, April 22, 2021
• Interview, “Always Changing – Always Evolving,” Fennemore Blog, April 8, 2021
• Quoted, “Women to Know + Do Business With,” The KNOW Phoenix, March 17, 2021
• Quoted, “Let’s Celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Day,” Fennemore Blog, February 18, 2021
• Quoted, “Making Sense of It All: Business, the Law and COVID-19,” InBusiness, February 1, 2021
• Quoted, “Ducey extends protections for healthcare workers, long-term care questions remain,” ABC 15 Arizona, January 4, 2021
• Author, “Top 10 Tips for Physician Employment Contracts,” Arizona Pulse, November 17, 2020
• Quoted, “Common Misconceptions About HIPAA Can Threaten Patient Safety, Quality of Care,” Relias Media, September 1, 2020
• Co-author, “So Who Exactly is Making Decisions Concerning the Elder Care Industry?” Fennemore Client Alert, August 20, 2020
• Co-author, “When Can We See Grandma? Regulations Governing Visits to Senior Living Facilities,” Fennemore Client Alert, July 27, 2020
• Quoted, “How to Comply with New Healthcare Interoperability Rules,” Altexsoft, July 9, 2020
• Quoted, “What New CDC Guidelines Mean for Workplaces as They Reopen,” Healthline, June 2, 2020
• Quoted, “Elderly patients with COVID-19 allowed to return to nursing homes with guidelines,” ABC 15 Arizona, May 26, 2020
• Quoted, “New regulations require reporting of COVID-19 cases in nursing homes,” Tucson Local Media, May 20, 2020
• Co-author, “Limitations to Assisted Living and Nursing Home Liability in the Wake of COVID-19 and Best Practices to Avoid and Defend Against Claims,” Fennemore Client Alert, May 5, 2020
• Co-author, “Recent Actions that Impact the Nursing and Assisted Living Industry,” Attorney at Law, April 23, 2020
• Interview, “COVID-19 in Valley Care Facilities,” ABC 15 Arizona, April 22, 2020
• Interview, “Family Calls for Regular Tests at Chandler Nursing Home that had 13 Coronavirus Deaths,” AZFamily.com, April 22, 2020
• Co-author, “Recent Actions that Impact the Nursing and Assisted Living Industry,” Fennemore Client Alert, April 21, 2020
• Author, “Watch for COVID-19 Scams!” Fennemore Craig Client Alert, April 13,2020
• Quoted, “Billing telehealth under COVID-19 rules? Use POS 02, document need, watch payer shifts,” Part B News, March 30, 2020
• Co-author, “COVID-19: Health Plan Coverage For Furloughed Employees,” Fennemore Client Alert, March 26, 2020
• Author, “Regulations Relaxed to Allow Increased Telehealth Usage During COVID-19 Outbreak,” Fennemore Client Alert, March 20, 2020
• Author, “Coding COVID-19,” Arizona Medical Association, March 12, 2020
• Author, “HHS Releases Final Interoperability Rules Intended to Give Patients Direct Access to Health Data,” Fennemore Client Alert, March 12, 2020
• Author, “Coding COVID-19,” Fennemore Client Alert, March 10, 2020
• Author, “Running afoul of Stark,” Part B News, January 20, 2020
• Journal of Law and Public Policy
• Journal of Technology Law and Policy

• Elected Director, Central Arizona Water Conservation District Board of Directors, 2012 – present
• Member, Phoenix Suns Charities 88
• Member, Arizona Bankruptcy Inn of Court
• Member, Arizona Charter 100

• Arizona