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Jennifer R. Breuer | Partner
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Jennifer Breuer is a partner in the Chicago office of Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP and is a member of the firm's Health Law Department.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.Ms. Breuer 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; not-for-profit corporation law; health system governance and other general corporate matters.Ms. Breuer also provides counsel with regard to the applicability of HIPAA and state privacy laws to her clients' business practices.
Ms. Breuer 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.She 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, Ms. Breuer 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.Ms. Breuer was named as an Illinois Super Lawyer in 2006.
Ms. Breuer received her Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and her Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois.At Northwestern, Ms. Breuer served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.Prior to attending Northwestern, Ms. Breuer worked as a strategy consultant to the worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries at The Wilkerson Group (now IBM Consulting) New York, New York.
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Jennifer Breuer, HIPAA: A View from 10,000 Feet, The Health Information Manager (Spring 2002)
"Patient Confidentiality Issues: Preserving the Confidentiality of the Computerized Medical Record," Drug Benefits Trends (May 1998)
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