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Jennifer Breuer is a partner and a member of the firm’s Health Practice Group. Her practice includes the general representation of health care organizations including hospitals, multi-specialty physician groups, ancillary service providers and other health care providers and suppliers as well as the special representation of pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers in fraud and abuse and privacy compliance matters. Jennifer frequently acts as counsel in the mergers, acquisitions and affiliations among health care providers. She also regularly assists in developing and implementing legal compliance programs; applying state and federal regulation, including licensure standards, physician recruitment and retention requirements, federal taxation of exempt organizations and Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse laws; nonprofit corporation law; health system governance and other general corporate matters. Jennifer also provides counsel with regard to the applicability of HIPAA and state privacy laws to her clients’ business practices.
Jennifer is a regular author and speaker on various health care issues, including Medicare antikickback and self referral law requirements, corporate compliance programs, health privacy issues, physician practice acquisitions and the formation of management services organizations. Jennifer is a guest lecturer at John Marshall School of Law on HIPAA and privacy matters, and is a member of the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys and the American Health Lawyers Association. In 2006, she was named one of the nation's Outstanding Fraud & Compliance Lawyers by Nightingale's Healthcare News and, in 2004, she was named by Nightingale’s Healthcare News as one of 14 Outstanding Young Healthcare Attorneys in the United States. Jennifer was named as an Illinois Super Lawyer in 2006.
Jennifer received her bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and her J.D. degree from Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois. At Northwestern, Jennifer served as an associate editor of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Prior to attending Northwestern, she worked as a strategy consultant to the worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries at The Wilkerson Group (now IBM Consulting) New York, NY. | 