Overview
For over 20 years, organizations in the health care and life sciences industries have trusted attorney Jack Gilbertson for legal, compliance, financial, tax, and consulting services.
Jack's clients have included tax-exempt and for-profit hospitals and health systems, physician groups, integrated delivery systems, academic medical centers (AMCs), medical research institutions, health plans, pharmaceutical benefit management companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and medical device companies.
- Representing AMCs, medical foundations, hospital systems, integrated delivery systems, physician groups, and other health science companies in a wide range of transactional and contracting matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, services agreements (professional and ancillary service providers, employment and medical direction), and supply chain structuring, and conducting health regulatory due diligence
- Advising clients on executive compensation, government contracting, and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues
- Directing corporate investigations for domestic and global health sciences companies, including discovery and evaluation of financial arrangements and interactions with physicians and other health care professionals, distributors, and sales agents and other third-party intermediaries, with a focus on key regulatory compliance issues, including anti-kickback, anti-self-referral, false claims, corruption (involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act), and Medicare and Medicaid programs
- Representing clients in government investigations and dispute resolution proceedings
- Assisting hospital systems and other health sciences companies with the assessment and application of regulatory requirements to key processes, and internal controls and systems, including those relating to billing, coding, and collection; contracting; physician and vendor management; medical research; quality measurement and reporting; clinical documentation (including transition to ICD-10 and meaningful use of electronic health records); accreditation/conditions of participation; licensure; privacy and security; trade association and industry standards; and monitoring and auditing
- Representing AMCs, medical foundations, and hospital and integrated delivery systems on matters relating to tax-exempt status, including private benefit and inurement, governance, conflicts of interest, physician arrangements, joint ventures, community benefit, community needs measurement and reporting, compensation, intermediate sanctions, valuation, and compliance with requirements imposed under tax-exemption financing
- Developing, implementing, assessing, and executing key elements of compliance programs and related compliance functions for hospital systems and other health sciences companies, including programs relating to corporate compliance plans, risk identification and assessment, and monitoring and auditing activities
Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Jack was a health care and government contracts attorney at an international law firm. In addition to his legal experience, Jack’s former practice as a certified public accountant includes an extensive background providing consulting, audit, reimbursement, forensic accounting, and tax services to local, regional, and global health sciences companies for over a decade at two of the world’s leading Big Four accounting and consulting firms.
Jack routinely publishes and speaks on a variety of key legal issues affecting health sciences companies.
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Focus Areas
Services
- Corporate & Transactional
- Government and Commercial Coding, Coverage, and Payment
- Government Contracts and Procurement
- Health Care
- Health Care and Life Sciences Investigations and Enforcement
- Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions
- Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures
- Privacy, Cybersecurity & Data Asset Management
- Tax and Tax-Exempt Counseling
Experience
Recognition
- The Best Lawyers in America, Health Care Law (2022 to 2024)
- The Legal 500 United States, Healthcare: Health Insurers (2023)
- Southern California Super Lawyers, Health Care and Government Contracts (2015 to 2020)
Credentials
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M., 1999)
- Wake Forest University School of Law (J.D., 1991)
- Michigan State University (B.A., 1984)
Bar Admissions
- California
Professional & Community Involvement
- American Bar Association
- American Health Lawyers Association
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- 826LA (an affiliate of 826 National), Board of Directors, Corporate Treasurer
- Frank D. Lanterman Regional Center (Los Angeles, California), Administrative Affairs Committee
- Healthcare Financial Management Association
- Healthcare Financial Management Association (Southern California Chapter), Board of Directors, Corporate Secretary
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- State of California Bar Association
Events
Past Events
- Hospital Association of Southern California Annual Meeting: California Healthcare Exchange and How It Will Changer Our Business
Insights
Insights
- PublicationsCalifornia Finalizes SB 184 Pre-Transaction Notice Requirements for “Material Change” Health Care Transactions ...26 minute read
- PublicationsCalifornia Enacts Statute That Furthers Efforts to Move Toward a Unified Health Care Financing System11 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Epstein Becker Green Attorneys Recognized by 2024 Best Lawyers for Excellence in the Legal Profession
12 minute read - Firm Announcements
Epstein Becker Green Earns National Recognition and High Rankings in the 2023 Edition of Legal 500
3 minute read - Firm Announcements
Epstein Becker Green Attorneys Recognized by 2023 Best Lawyers for Excellence in the Legal Profession
11 minute read - Firm AnnouncementsFifty-Eight Epstein Becker Green Attorneys Recognized for Professional Excellence–Three Attorneys Distinguished as ...7 minute read
- Media CoverageJack Gilbertson Featured in "Epstein Becker & Green Buttresses Healthcare Group"2 minute read
- Media CoverageJack Gilbertson Featured in “Health Hires: Epstein Becker”2 minute read
- Media CoverageJack Gilbertson Featured in “On the Move: Tracking the Ins and Outs of California Lawyers”1 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsHealth Care Attorney Jack Gilbertson Joins Epstein Becker Green in Los Angeles3 minute read
- PublicationsKnow Your Risks: Emerging Markets, Third-Party Intermediaries, and the Life Sciences Industry
- PublicationsUpdate on Medicare and Medicaid Pharmaceutical Pricing: Ongoing Challenges and Issues
- PublicationsThe Compliance Officer's Role in Merger & Acquisition Due Diligence: Physician Arrangements
- PublicationsRecent Revisions by CMS Underscore Complexity and Compliance Issues in Physician Self-Referral Rules
- PublicationsContinuing Changes in Physician Financial Disclosure and Referral Landscape
- PublicationsPhysician Arrangements Under Scrutiny
- PublicationsProposed Regulations Address a Broad Range of Compliance and Contractual Issues for Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D ...
- PublicationsMedicaid Prescription Drug Final Rule: CMS Makes Major Changes Required Under the Deficit Reduction Act to Medicaid ...
- PublicationsPharmaceutical Pricing Under Scrutiny: U.S. House Oversight Committee Investigates Fraud, Waste and Abuse and Overview of ...
- PublicationsIRS Addresses Relationship Between Tax-Exempt Status and (1) Private Benefit and (2) Excess Benefit Transactions ...