
Jeanne L. Vance
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916-563-1818 | Jeanne L. Vance joined S&G in 2003 and became a Shareholder in 2007. She began practicing in 1994, and spent her time in other law firms in Sacramento and Honolulu specializing in the representation of healthcare entities. Her practice focuses on business and regulatory healthcare law. Her experience includes:
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Healthcare regulatory counseling (including licensing, fraud and abuse, and reimbursement issues)
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Mergers and acquisitions (including the provision of healthcare licensing/government payor enrollment support for transaction attorneys who do not offer or maintain this expertise in California)
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Counseling and assistance with Medicare certification issues and Medicare and Medi-Cal enrollment issues (including the submission of comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding proposed Medicare provider enrollment changes)
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Licensing of all healthcare provider types, including consideration of the issues facing unlicensed surgery centers owned by physicians
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Healthcare compliance counseling
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Of particular note, from 2008-2010, Ms. Vance was the lead outside regulatory lawyer for three regions of a Northern California healthcare system, overseeing change of ownerships and related notice filings for all healthcare regulatory entitlements for 16 California hospitals, various home health agencies, licensed clinics, licensed ambulatory surgery centers, adult day health facilities, skilled nursing facilities, residential care facilities for the elderly, retail pharmacies, and pharmacy wholesalers, as well as hundreds of non-facility Medicare enrollments and non-facility Medi-Cal enrollments. At one time during 2009, there were nearly one thousand applications on file for this project with the following federal agencies, California agencies and government contractors: Department of Public Health—Licensing & Certification, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services/Palmetto GBA, Department of Health Care Services, Department of Public Health—Laboratory Field Services, Department of Public Health—Radiologic Health Branch, Board of Pharmacy, Food & Drug Administration, Medi-Cal subprogram offices and the Department of Social Services.
Ms. Vance has advised a wide array of provider entities including health systems, medical foundations, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, residential care facilities for the elderly, healthcare management companies, skilled nursing facilities, physicians, medical groups, ambulance companies, ancillary service providers and durable medical equipment providers.
Ms. Vance is licensed to practice in both California and Hawaii. She is a member of the Health Law Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California; she is also a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the California Society of Healthcare Attorneys. She was previously the President of the Health Law Section of the Sacramento County Bar Association, Secretary of the Sacramento Sierra Women Healthcare Executives, a member of the Residential Services Subcommittee of the California Association of Homes and Services for the Aging and a member of the Sacramento Healthcare Decisions – ECHO (Extreme Care Humane Options) Long-Term Care Task Force. She has published and lectured on provider enrollment, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, fraud, compliance and other health law topics.
Ms. Vance graduated from Mills College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications in 1991 and received her Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1994.
Publications
CMS Issues Proposed Rule to Implement Provider Enrollment Aspects of Affordable Care Act, Salem & Green Newsletter, November 4, 2010.
Strategies for Entering the Medi-Cal Program for Providers Subject to Medi-Cal Enrollment Moratoriums, California Health Law News, Summer 2010.
OIG Claims Gainsharing Illegal, Advance Providers of Post-Acute Care, November 1999.
Compliance Costs as Allowable Costs, Medicare Compliance Advisor for Home Health Agencies, October 1998.
Fraud and Abuse Gray Area Growing Darker: Advisory Opinions as a New Source of Light, Medical Group Management Association – State Bulletin, February 1998, co-authored.
On the Wrong Side of the Fuzzy Line, California Medicine, October 1997, co-authored (article focuses on healthcare fraud and abuse).
Fraud and Abuse Advisory Opinions: The Gray Area Will Never Be the Same, Health Law Digest, September 1997, co-authored.
When the Buck Doesn’t Stop: A Lawyer’s Confession, California Health Law News, Summer 1997, co-authored (article focuses on ethical rights and responsibilities in making healthcare decisions for the perpetually comatose patient).
Womb for Rent: Norplant and the Undoing of Poor Women, 21 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 827, 1994.
Presentations
Sacramento County Bar Association, Health Law Section, HIPAA 2005 Developments, October 26, 2005, Sacramento, California.
Medical Group Management Association, 2003 California Legislative Update, January 12, 2004, Sacramento, California.
American Association of Reproductive Managers, Western Regional Conference, HIPAA: We Survived April 14 – What’s Next?, June 6, 2003, Sacramento, California.
Medical Group Management Association, Advanced Compliance Plan Implementation, February 13, 2001, Sacramento, California.
Sacramento Medical Group Management Association, Compliance for Physicians, November 15, 2000, Sacramento, California.
Sacramento Sierra Women Healthcare Executives, Physician Compensation Plans, August 15, 2000, Sacramento, California.
Medical Group Management Association, Western Regional Conference, Physician Compensation Plans, June 26, 2000, Anaheim, California.
Professional Association of Medical Management, Compliance Plan Implementation, February 9, 2000, Sacramento, California.
Sacramento Sierra Women Healthcare Executives, Advanced Compliance, May 18, 1999, Sacramento, California.
Healthcare Financial Management Association, Compliance Plan Implementation, April 28, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Healthcare Financial Management Association, Compliance Plan Implementation, March 26, 1999, Reno, Nevada.
California Association of Homes & Services for the Aging, Public Policy Conference, Home Health in RCFES – Making it Work, February 3, 1999, Sacramento, California.
American Health Lawyers Association, Long Term Care and the Law Conference, Buying, Selling and Financing Long Term Care Facilities, January 20-22, 1999, San Antonio, Texas.
California Association of Homes & Services for the Aging – Annual Conference, Directors and Compliance, April 29, 1998, Monterey, California.
California Association of Homes & Services for the Aging, Corporate Compliance Seminars, March 3, 1998, Cupertino, California; March 10, 1998, Pasadena, California; and March 11, 1998, San Diego, California.
Lorman Education Services, Health Care Corporate Compliance Programs, October 9, 1997, Sacramento, California; December 4, 1997, Oakland, California; and January 22, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Sacramento Sierra Women Healthcare Executives, Legal Issues in Managed Care, September 16, 1997, Sacramento, California.
Sacramento County Bar Association, The Basics of Health Care Fraud and Abuse for the General Business Attorney, August 12, 1997, Sacramento, California.
BHC Psychiatric Facilities, Exceptions to Confidentiality Requirements: Tarasoff’s Duty to Warn, June 17, 1997, Sacramento, California.
Medical Education Services, Confidentiality of Medical Records in Hawaii, December, 1995, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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