John R. Jacob represents multi-hospital health care systems, major academic medical centers and community hospitals and has extensive experience in counseling and litigation regarding Medicare and Medicaid regulatory matters.
With a particular focus on complex Medicare reimbursement and coverage disputes, Mr. Jacob has practiced extensively before federal and state courts and administrative tribunals, including the Department of Health and Human Services’ Provider Reimbursement Review Board (PRRB). In the past year alone, he has negotiated for hospitals either the settlement or administrative resolution of over 50 Medicare reimbursement cases pending before the PRRB or in federal court.
Mr. Jacob advises hospitals and other health industry entities on the numerous regulatory and policy issues faced in their daily operations, including reimbursement counseling; potential fraud and abuse and overpayment matters; voluntary disclosures; federal investigations; due diligence associated with various business arrangements, public debt offerings and private placements; and legislative and regulatory policy analysis, drafting and advocacy.
Mr. Jacob received his A.B. in English from Colgate University in 1988 and his J.D. cum laude in 1993 from the American University Washington College of Law, where he was the executive editor of the American University Law Review. Before joining Akin Gump, Mr. Jacob was a law clerk with the Attorney General of Maryland at the Maryland State Police Headquarters. Mr. Jacob is a member of the District of Columbia and Maryland Bars, the American Health Lawyers Association and the D.C. Bar Association’s Health Law Section. He is admitted to practice before a number of federal district courts and courts of appeals.
Mr. Jacob was nationally ranked as a top healthcare lawyer in the 2008 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. In 2005 Nightingale's Healthcare News named Mr. Jacob as one of the Outstanding Young Healthcare Lawyers of the year.
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