Steven T. Voigt

Steve is a partner in the Vorys Columbus office and a member of the health care group. He has more than 25 years of legal experience spanning C-suite government service, sophisticated private practice, and high-stakes litigation, with a particular focus on health care law and administration.

Prior to joining Vorys, Steve served as the assistant director and general counsel of the Ohio Department of Medicaid, and before this, the chief legal counsel to Medicaid.  Steve was a key decision maker and advisor on major agency initiatives.  He developed and led programmatic, legal, and operational program enhancements and major system implementations.  His work included novel improvements in vendor and managed care contracts that improved transparency, enhanced stewardship of public money, and better care delivery and performance expectations.

During his time at Medicaid, Steve was the chief legal advisor for the procurement of Ohio’s statewide Medicaid managed care program and the state’s first single state pharmacy benefit manager.  He gained extensive experience negotiating extremely large contracts, developing requests for procurements, drafting and responding to corrective action plans, assessing service level agreements and contract penalties, and coordinating complex corporate transactions from the state’s perspective.  Steve's work included important policy decision-making and external relations, and he is deeply familiar with the operation of state government and the partnership of state and federal administration over health care.  In addition, approximately half of the agency reported to Steve including the office legal counsel, the legislative department, the bureau of program integrity, the department of contracts and procurement, the department of operations, the department of information technology and the department of privacy and HIPAA compliance. Steve also played a central role in defending the agency in complex litigation, including a successful defense of the Next Generation of Managed Care procurement.  He also supervised most of the other complex litigation affecting the agency.

Steve’s government experience also included service as principal assistant attorney general for the State of Ohio, where he was lead trial counsel on high-profile constitutional and regulatory litigation, including defending Ohio’s election laws, consequential legislation, and government decision-making related to audits and other topics.  Most of these cases included matters of statewide or nation-wide significance.  Two of these matters reached the U.S. Supreme Court, and in addition to serving as lead trial counsel, Steve also served on the appellate teams as the cases worked their way through the courts.

Steve began his legal career with a one-year judicial clerkship and then many years with one of the 20 largest law firms in the country where he handled a broad range of complex business litigation and advice on behalf of companies and individuals.  The litigation included topics such as fraud, misrepresentation, breach of contracts, health care issues, non-compete clauses, pharmaceutical disputes, statutory construction, wrongful death, and executive pay and wage payment cases.  He obtained multi-million-dollar recoveries for clients and protected clients from significant exposure.  These matters spanned multiple states and Steve also spent significant time in Europe handling portions of these disputes.  

Honors & Recognitions

Excellence in Writing Award, The Ohio Attorney General, 2016

“Pennsylvania Lawyer on the Fast Track,” American Lawyer Media, 2007

Graduate, Appellate Advocacy Training Program, National Attorneys General Training & Research Institute, Washington D.C.

Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Stars, seven years