Jennifer Guerrero is a member of the Health Care Law and Privacy and Data Security Law practice groups in Buchalter’s Los Angeles office. Jennifer helps a variety of healthcare providers develop common-sense risk management strategies and navigate the complex healthcare legal landscape.  Jennifer brings an insider’s perspective to her healthcare practice due to her real-world experience:  she worked as in-house counsel at a Medi-Cal (Medicaid)/Medicare managed health care plan and also at a non-profit hospital system. Her experience and extensive knowledge gives her an edge in providing strategic and creative solutions to her clients — in regulatory, operational, compliance, and transactional matters for providers of any size.

Jennifer’s healthcare clients typically include:

• Medical and ancillary providers
• Telemedicine companies
• Hospital systems
• Life sciences companies
• Managed care organizations

Jennifer regularly advices clients regarding the oversight and compliance requirements unique to Medicare and Medi-Cal, managed care law, fraud and abuse compliance, value-based contracting, payor/health plan contracting, reimbursement, overpayments, pharmacy network issues, Knox-Keene license requirements and obligations, and other various other legal issues as they arise.

Jennifer also provides advice and training to develop and maintain effective security and data privacy programs for all types of organizations, in compliance with security and data privacy laws, regulations, and standards, including HITECH, HIPAA, NIST, and various other federal and state requirements.