Overview
Jeremy Morris is a health care attorney and trusted antitrust counselor who advises his clients on how federal and state antitrust laws impact business, especially in the health care industry. Clients value his practical, solution-oriented advice, which helps them achieve their business goals.
Jeremy provides counsel to clients on antitrust issues that arise in the context of mergers, joint ventures, and provider integration. He also assists clients with Hart-Scott-Rodino filings, designs FTC-compliant provider networks, develops structural and operational safeguards to help clients avoid antitrust issues, and defends clients from government antitrust investigations.
In addition, hospitals and physician leaders rely on Jeremy’s guidance across the spectrum of medical staff matters that include credentialing and privileging issues, the peer review process, and quality improvement. Jeremy has significant experience advising hospitals on corrective action investigations, fair hearings, and appeals. He also aids clients in the development of effective peer review processes, prepares medical staff documents, and manages provider practice issues, including provider licensing.
Jeremy previously served as in-house counsel at a tertiary care, regional referral center in northern Kentucky. In that role, he gained substantial experience in day-to-day hospital operations that he now utilizes to assist his clients in a variety of operational, transactional, and regulatory matters.
In addition, to keep his clients updated on important antitrust counseling and defense issues, Jeremy coauthors Epstein Becker Green's biweekly Antitrust Byte client alerts.
Focus Areas
Services
Experience
- Prepared several options for a health system and physician-owned surgical hospital to affiliate in a secondary market. Jeremy provided regulatory advice, including an analysis of potential Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute compliance issues, as well as antitrust and federal tax law advice.
- Represented a medical center in a fair hearing regarding the denial of a physician's application for medical staff appointment and clinical privileges. Jeremy successfully convinced the hearing officer of the accuracy of the medical executive committee's recommendation to deny the physician's applications, given documented instances of substantial professional behavioral issues.
- Advised a hospital board of trustees regarding an investigation into the CEO's handling of an employee's sexual harassment and retaliation claims against a supervising physician. Jeremy negotiated the transition package for the CEO and the removal of the accused physician from the hospital.
- Worked with several major hospital systems to improve medical staff peer review processes and to develop sharing of information policies between health care entities within the systems.
- Developed a peer review process for physicians employed by hospital-affiliated entities and created documents that permitted the sharing of peer review information between the hospital and the affiliated entity.
- Served as a peer review consultant to a hospital pursuant to a corporate integrity agreement.
- Negotiated a settlement of Medicare reimbursement underpayments with the federal government on behalf of two large health systems.
- Provided ongoing antitrust advice in connection with the formation of a statewide network of six regional health care systems, which is one of the larger health care joint ventures in the country.
- Represented a county hospital that became affiliated with a large health care system, obtaining all regulatory approvals, overseeing self-disclosure of potential Stark issues, and assisting with the payoff of outstanding bonds.
- Represented a hospital system in multiple arbitration proceedings in a dispute with national payor relative to the implementation of sequestration cuts imposed following passage of the budget deficit reduction act.
- Served as lead counsel in the acquisition of a nonprofit health system by a health corporation, negotiating the transaction, drafting all corporate documents, conducting due diligence review, and completing all regulatory filings
Recognition
- The Best Lawyers in America©, Health Care Law (2024 to 2025)
Credentials
Education
- The University of Akron (J.D., magna cum laude, 2003)
- Text and Research Editor, Akron Law Review
- Recipient, Board of Trustees Scholastic Achievement Scholarship
- Shawnee State University (B.A., summa cum laude, 2000)
- Individualized Studies with a concentration in Health Care Management
- Recipient, Academic Excellence Scholarship
Bar Admissions
- Kentucky
- Ohio
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio
Professional & Community Involvement
- American Bar Association, Health Law Section
- American Health Law Association
- Antitrust Practice Group
- Medical Staff, Peer Review, and Credentialing Practice Group
- Regulation, Accreditation, and Payment Practice Group
- Columbus Bar Association
- Kentucky Bar Association
- Ohio State Bar Association
Media
Events
Past Events
- June 10-12, 2024
- June 12-14, 2023
- June 13-15, 2022
Insights
Insights
- PublicationsRecap: Top 10 Antitrust Issues in 20242 minute read
- PublicationsLeadership Changes and a New Direction at the FTC2 minute read
- Blogs
Supreme Court of Ohio Rules on a Peer-Review Privilege Issue in Stull v. Summa
5 minute read - Blogs
Supreme Court of Ohio Decides on a Peer-Review Privilege Issue in Stull v. Summa
5 minute read - PublicationsFTC Debuts New Comment Portal2 minute read
- PublicationsFTC Receives Grades for Its FY 2024 Performance2 minute read
- PublicationsHouse Report Is Critical of Chair Khan’s Administration of FTC2 minute read
- PublicationsRevisions to HSR Form Released2 minute read
- PublicationsFTC Withdraws from Interagency Memorandum of Understanding2 minute read
- PublicationsFTC Disputes Whether States Can Effectively Displace Hospital Competition with COPA Regulation2 minute read
- PublicationsFTC and DOJ Signal Continued Interest in Labor Markets with New MOU2 minute read
- PublicationsInteragency Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing Holds First Public Meeting1 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Epstein Becker Green Attorneys Honored for Excellence in the Legal Profession by Best Lawyers 2025
14 minute read - PublicationsFTC Releases Controversial Interim Staff Report on PBMs’ Purported Impact on Drug Prices3 minute read
- PublicationsProposed FTC Budget Signals Continued Enforcement Initiatives2 minute read
- PublicationsNewly Appointed Commissioner Holyoak Criticizes FTC’s Direction and Policy2 minute read
- PublicationsAgencies Seek Information on Serial Acquisitions2 minute read
- PublicationsClose of Comment Period for RFI on Consolidation in Health Care Markets2 minute read
- PublicationsFTC Requests Substantial Increase to FY 2025 Budget2 minute read
- PublicationsFederal Antitrust Enforcement Agencies Launch New Reporting Tool2 minute read
- PublicationsFive Commissioners and a Vote on Noncompetes to Come2 minute read
- PublicationsFTC Continues Investigation into PBM Practices2 minute read
- PublicationsMade to Measure: Informal Remediation, Corrective Action, and Fair Hearings4 minute read
- PublicationsAgencies Focus on Private Equity in Health Care2 minute read
- PublicationsFTC Calls on Congress to “Modernize” HSR Act and Extend Waiting Periods2 minute read
- PublicationsRevised HSR Thresholds Announced2 minute read
- PublicationsUpdated Merger Guidelines Finalized2 minute read
- PublicationsRecap: Top 10 Antitrust Issues in 20232 minute read
- PublicationsPresident Seeks More Antitrust Scrutiny of Health Care Transactions2 minute read
- PublicationsLatest Status of Proposed Merger Guidelines2 minute read
- PublicationsFTC Chairwoman Defends Agency’s Enforcement Record2 minute read
- PublicationsThe Federal Trade Commission Moves Closer to a Full Complement of Commissioners2 minute read
- PublicationsFTC and DOL Sign MOU for Cooperation2 minute read
- PublicationsBeyond Civil Enforcement2 minute read
- PublicationsAre Conduct Remedies to Merger Challenges Back on the Table?2 minute read
- PublicationsNew Antitrust Theory: Cross-Market Effects2 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Epstein Becker Green Attorneys Recognized by 2024 Best Lawyers for Excellence in the Legal Profession
12 minute read - PublicationsFTC Warns Against Contract Provisions It Believes Could Impede Its Investigations2 minute read
- PublicationsFTC’s Fight with House Judiciary Committee Goes Public2 minute read
- PublicationsAdditional Withdrawals of Long-Standing Guidance and Newly Proposed Merger Guidelines2 minute read
- PublicationsPotential Hart-Scott-Rodino Changes on the Horizon3 minute read
- PublicationsFTC Says State Oversight Cannot Effectively Displace Competition Among Health Care Providers2 minute read
- PublicationsA 20-Year Consent Order Prohibiting the Use of Non-Compete Agreements2 minute read
- BlogsA 20-Year Consent Order Prohibiting the Use of Non-Compete Agreements - Antitrust Byte2 minute read
- PublicationsFTC Makes Case for Increased Enforcement2 minute read
- PublicationsSupreme Court Determines That Constitutionality of FTC’s Administrative Review Process Can Be Challenged in Federal ...2 minute read
- PublicationsNew HSR Filing Fee Tier System in Effect2 minute read
- PublicationsSecond Annual Spring Enforcers Summit Kicks Off with Remarks from Jonathan Kanter2 minute read
- PublicationsDOJ’s Antitrust Division Continues Its Pursuit of Overlapping Directorates2 minute read
- BlogsDOJ Withdraws Long-Standing Support for Antitrust Enforcement Policy Statements in Health Care9 minute read