Jennifer M. Vaughan
Partner | Atlanta Officejvaughan@phrd.com
T: (404) 420-5531
F: (678) 533-7796
F: (678) 533-7796
Practice Group
Services
- Health Care Finance
- Managed Care Contracting
- Business Acquisitions, Divestitures, and Joint Ventures
- Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Transactions
- Fraud and Abuse and Stark Advice
Education
- Furman University - (B.A., 1988)
- University of Georgia School of Law - (J.D., cum laude, 1991)
Admitted to Practice
- Georgia
- Florida
About Jennifer
Jennifer’s practice has been centered around corporate and health care law, with a particular emphasis on the representation of clients in mergers, joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions of businesses. Transactions have included mergers and acquisitions involving privately held business entities and in structuring and implementing various health care ventures, including establishment of physician-hospital organizations, management service organizations and provider networks; implementation of hospital-physician joint venture arrangements and contracts; and acquisitions of hospitals, physician practices and other providers. Jennifer provides particular expertise in evaluating Medicare Fraud and Abuse and Stark principles. A significant sub-specialty has been the representation of health care institutions with the full range of integrated delivery system strategies, including hospital mergers/acquisitions, hospital-physician agreements (e.g., PHOs, MSOs), the development of insurance capabilities within an integrated system, managed care contracting and the various physician strategies for success, such as affiliation with hospitals, practice management companies, and the development of practices and IPAs.
Professional and Civic Involvement
- Serves on the Firm's Recruiting Committee
- Board of Trustees, Marietta First United Methodist Church
Honors
- Editorial Board, 1989-1990 and Managing Board, 1990-1991, Georgia Law Review
Representative Engagements
- Represented the selling stockholders in the sale of a health care consulting business
- Represented a single specialty physician group in the establishment of a practice management company and the development of a surgery center
- Represented the selling stockholders in the sale of a computer software company
- Represented the selling stockholders in the sale of stock of a regional food distribution company to a public company (the consideration was cash plus an earn-out)
Publications and Presentations
- Contract Issues in Managed Care and Capitation Agreements, Healthcare Financial Management Association and Georgia Society of CPAs, 1995
- Restrictive Covenants in Georgia, ICLE in Georgia, Corporate and Banking Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, 1996
- Legal Considerations Relating to Physician Networks, Healthcare Financial Management Association, 1996
- Legal and Practical Considerations for Starting a Business, Georgia Tech Executive MBA Program, 1998
- Legal and Practical Considerations for Starting a Business, Georgia Tech Executive Mgt. of Technology Program, 1998-1999
- Author: Keeping an Eye on Physician Recruitment, Daily Report-Health Care Law, March, 1993
- Author: An Overview of the Certification and Reimbursement Aspects of Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers, Georgia Academy of Hospital Attorneys Annual Meeting, 1993
- Author: Restrictive Covenants - The Ten Commandments and Other Inspired Advice on How to Reach the Promised Land of Enforceability, Sponsored by ICLE and the Corporate and Banking Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, 1996
- Author: Coping with Reality: Maintaining Control Through Restrictive Covenants, Letters of Intent, Rights of First Refusal and Other Contract Provisions,1997 Health Law Handbook, Gosfield, 1997