Jen has over 25 years of experience in representing health care industry clients and focuses her practice on complex health care litigation and class actions, cybersecurity, data breach incident response, investigations and regulatory compliance. Jen is the firm’s privacy officer and leads the firm’s health care privacy and cybersecurity practice and initiatives.
She has significant experience leading the defense of health care entities in data breach class actions, False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuits and investigations, ERISA class actions and other litigation and enforcement actions involving claims against health care providers, health plans, and others in the health care and life sciences industries. Her litigation practice involves handling lawsuits in federal and state courts nationwide.
In her cybersecurity practice, she works with clients in all industries to respond to incidents when they occur and minimize the risk of privacy and data security breaches. She guides clients through all aspects of privacy and security compliance, incident response, governance, audits/investigations, enforcement actions, breach analyses, training, and strategic planning. She has a thorough understanding of federal and state privacy and data security laws and has served as a health care privacy law expert witness. Jen is a frequent presenter on cybersecurity and privacy topics.
Within the constantly evolving health care legal landscape, she provides guidance to clients across the health care industry about how to comply with the HIPAA regulations, federal and state anti-kickback laws, the Stark law, Medicare/Medicaid rules and regulations, the Affordable Care Act, FDA and ADA regulations, telemedicine, and other laws, rules and regulations impacting their businesses.
Jen also has an active investigations practice. She conducts health care due diligence, compliance audits and investigations for clients nationwide, and represents them when they are under investigation by federal and state authorities for data breaches, health care fraud and abuse, and other regulatory non-compliance.
