Jeanne L. Vance is a shareholder in the Firm’s Corporate group, where she focuses her practice on business and regulatory healthcare law.
Jeanne provides outside counsel regulatory support to implement large-scale corporate reorganizations, name and branding changes, and change of control transactions for California-based healthcare providers. In this capacity, she has advised revenue cycle teams regarding the interplay between corporate business structure, licensing/enrollment file content and process, and claim form content. Jeanne advises and designs cutover plans affecting each of these areas in a way that minimizes lost revenue and cash flow disruption during implementation.
Jeanne is a seasoned healthcare transactional attorney for private companies, private equity investors, and other healthcare consolidators. Her services include healthcare licensing and government payor enrollment in support of transactional attorneys who do not offer or maintain this expertise in California. This experience includes both mergers and acquisitions as well as structuring new businesses to achieve the business and regulatory needs of healthcare provider clients. This includes experience with the implementation of California’s new healthcare transactions oversight law that requires pre-closing regulatory submissions and potential market and cost analysis from California’s new California Office of Healthcare Affordability.
Jeanne drafts services agreements as needed to support healthcare operations, including professional services agreements, agreements implementing friendly professional corporation models, hospital-based physician contracts, management agreements, medical director agreements, and various other contracts for services.
Jeanne provides Medicare enrollment assistance to reinstate billing privileges by filing for Corrective Action Plans, requests for reconsideration, and enrollment appeals. She has expertise in California medical foundation enrollment matters. She is currently the Chair of the Regulation, Accreditation & Payment Practice Group of the American Health Law Association (“AHLA”) and was the founding chair of the AHLA Accreditation, Certification and Enrollment Affinity Group from 2012-2015.
Jeanne has overseen change of ownerships and related filings for healthcare regulatory entitlements for hospitals, home health agencies, licensed clinics, licensed ambulatory surgery centers, durable medical equipment suppliers, adult day health facilities, skilled nursing facilities, residential care facilities for the elderly, pharmacies and pharmacy wholesalers, as well as non-facility Medicare enrollments and non-facility Medi-Cal enrollments. She is experienced in analyzing issues under the new Corporate Transparency Act, including reporting of beneficial ownership in connection with this law. She has provided expert witness testimony on health care licensing and provider enrollment matters.
Jeanne is licensed to practice in both California and Hawaii. She has published and lectured on provider enrollment, healthcare facility co-location under Medicare certification laws, and other health law topics.
Jeanne graduated from Mills College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications in 1991 and received her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 1994. In 2003, she joined healthcare and business law firm Salem & Green, which merged with and into Weintraub in 2022. She is a marathoner, a skier, and a knitter.
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American Health Lawyers Association
Chair of the Regulation, Accreditation and Payment Practice Group
Vice Chair of the Regulation, Accreditation and Payment Practice Group
Founding Chair of the Accreditation, Certification and Enrollment Affinity Group (2012-2015)
California Society of Healthcare Attorneys
Member
American Association of University Women Tahoe Nevada
Member
Girl Scouts Heart of Central California (GSHCC)
Board Finance Committee
State Bar of California, Health Law Committee of the Business Law Section
Former Member
Sacramento County Bar Association, Health Law Section
Past President
Awards
Sactown Magazine’s Top Lawyers List, 2016, 2017, 2019 – 2024 – Health Care
Northern California Super Lawyers, 2020-2024
American Health Lawyers Association’s Regulation, Accreditation and Payment Practice Group
“Volunteer of the Year” Award, 2012, 2013
AV Preeminent® Rating by Martindale-Hubbell®
J.D., UC College of the Law, San Francisco, 1994
B.A., Mills College, Oakland, 1991
On May 21, 2024, Jeanne Vance and Anders Bostrom presented an MCLE webinar with the Probate and Estate Planning Law Section of the Sacramento County Bar Association (SCBA) on, “The Corporate Transparency Act: Overview and Recent Developments.” The presentation offered an overview of the Corporate Transparency Act, with specific regard…
Weintraub shareholder Jeanne L. Vance presented at the American Health Law Association (AHLA) 2024 Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues. The presentation, titled “Updates from CMS’ Quality, Safety and Oversight Group: Hospital Co-Location and Other Compliance Updates,” provided updated compliance tools and resources from the Centers for Medicare &…
On February 21st, attorneys Jeanne Vance and Anders Bostrom presented an informative webinar on the new Corporate Transparency Act. As of January 1, 2024, the US Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) requires corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and other similar entities to disclose beneficial ownership information to the U.S. Treasury…
On August 17th, 2023, NBCC and the Medicare Mental Health Workforce Coalition will host an informative webinar titled Assessing the Essential Features of the 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule and Implications for Counselors and MFTs. Weintraub shareholder Jeanne L. Vance will serve as presenter. Other panelists will include Doug Jacobs, Chief…
On June 29th, Weintraub shareholder Jeanne L. Vance presented in the Medicare 301 Webinar alongside Gina Mendola of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the Medicare Mental Health Coalition. The webinar aimed to help marriage and family therapists (“MFTs”) and counselors understand the implications of The Mental Health Access Improvement Act. Jeanne’s…
Weintraub attorney Jeanne Vance has been selected as a faculty member for the 2023 American Health Law Association Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues, being held March 22-24, 2023, in Baltimore, Maryland. The program aims to bring together knowledgeable reimbursement counsel and specialists from both the public and private…
On March 23 – 25, 2022, the American Health Law Association will present the Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues in Baltimore, Maryland. The program aims to bring together knowledgeable reimbursement counsel and specialists from both the public and private sectors. Healthcare attorney Jeanne Vance will co-present on hot…
On April 14-16, 2021, The American Health Lawyers Association hosted the Health Care Transactions Conference Webinar. Weintraub attorney Jeanne Vance participated in the event and presented Sequencing Your Transaction Without Shutting Down Your Facility: Licensure, Certification, and Enrollment.
Jeanne L. Vance was selected on the faculty of two American Health Law Association conferences. Vance was a panelist for the program called “Hot Topics in Provider Enrollment: The Hot Topics Are Really Hot This Year” at the Medicare & Medicaid Payment Institute held March 24-26, 2021. She also will…
American Health Lawyers Association, Medicare Medicaid Payment Institute, Hot Topics in Provider Enrollment: The Hot Topics Are Really Hot This Year.
American Health Lawyers Association, Annual Meeting, Choose Your Friends Wisely or Face the Consequences under the New Provider Enrollment Rule.
For the ninth consecutive year, Jeanne L. Vance presented at the American Health Lawyers’ Association’s Medicare Medicaid Payment Issues conference regarding provider enrollment. Ms. Vance was a panelist regarding “Hot Topics in Provider Enrollment” March 20-22, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland.
American Health Lawyers Association, Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues Conference, Hot Topics in Provider Enrollment and Advanced Insights.
On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, a federal District Court in the Eastern District of Texas issued a national preliminary injunction that enjoined the federal government from enforcing the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) beneficial ownership interest reporting requirements, including the January 1, 2025 deadline, on companies formed prior to January 1,…
Weintraub Tobin is honored to announce that 34 of its attorneys have been selected to the inaugural Sactown Magazine Top Lawyers 2024 list. Attorneys from Weintraub Tobin are recognized in over a dozen practice areas on this year’s list, including Real Estate, Employment & Labor, Business Litigation, and Estate Planning…
Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that 45 of the Firm’s attorneys have been recognized on the 2024 Northern California Super Lawyers® and Rising Star lists. These lists, selected annually on a state-by-state basis, recognize outstanding attorneys who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement in…
On May 21, 2024, Jeanne Vance and Anders Bostrom presented an MCLE webinar with the Probate and Estate Planning Law Section of the Sacramento County Bar Association (SCBA) on, “The Corporate Transparency Act: Overview and Recent Developments.” The presentation offered an overview of the Corporate Transparency Act, with specific regard…
Weintraub shareholder Jeanne L. Vance presented at the American Health Law Association (AHLA) 2024 Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues. The presentation, titled “Updates from CMS’ Quality, Safety and Oversight Group: Hospital Co-Location and Other Compliance Updates,” provided updated compliance tools and resources from the Centers for Medicare &…
In honor of International Women’s Day, Weintraub Tobin celebrates four women who have recently moved into prominent leadership positions in the California Law Firm: Jessica Marlow, elected to the Firm’s Board of Directors; Jeanne Vance as an ex officio member of the Board of Directors; Tara Sattler as Marketing Shareholder;…
UPDATED 3/04/2024 On March 1, 2024, a lower Alabama federal court held that the Corporate Transparency Act, which requires certain businesses to file a BOI Report with FinCEN that includes information about their beneficial owners, is unconstitutional. Importantly, this ruling DOES NOT affect the legal obligation of entities formed in…
Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that 31 of its attorneys have been selected to the 2023 Sacramento Magazine Top Lawyers list. Weintraub’s attorneys are recognized in various categories, including Business/Corporate law, Employment & Labor law, Estate Planning & Probate law, and Real Estate law. The complete roster of Weintraub…
Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that 47 of the Firm’s attorneys have been selected to the 2023 Northern California Super Lawyers® and Rising Star lists. These lists, selected annually on a state-by-state basis, recognize outstanding attorneys who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement in…
Pictured: Brianna Nielsen and Weintraub attorneys Heidi Weinrich, Aysha Majeed, Jeanne Vance, and Anders Bostrom Weintraub Tobin was proud to attend and support UCP of Sacramento and Northern California’s 2023 Humanitarian of the Year event. The dinner was held on June 15, 2023, and honored Curt Rocca, Managing Partner of…
Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that 28 of its attorneys have been selected for inclusion in the Top Lawyers 2022 list from Sacramento Magazine. Ten of the listed Weintraub attorneys are recognized in multiple practice areas. The Top Lawyers list, featured each year by Sacramento Magazine, recognizes prominent attorneys in the…
by Graham WomackThis article was first published in Comstock’s Magazine on July 11, 2022. Reprinted by permission. One of the more pronounced themes of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the change in the workforce, with more than 47 million people quitting their jobs as part of the Great Resignation in 2021, according to the…
Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that 37 of its attorneys have been recognized on the 2022 Northern California Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars lists. Several Weintraub attorneys also received special recognition on Super Lawyers “Top” lists, including six attorneys named to the Sacramento Top 25 Super Lawyers (Gary L.…
In a March bulletin for the American Health Law Association Jeanne Vance writes the article entitled Summary of Meaningful Revisions to Chapter 10 of the Medicare Program Integrity Rule Regarding Provider Enrollment Matters. The bulletin is presented by the AHLA’s Regulation, Accreditation, and Payment Practice Group. It summarizes revisions made by…
Jeanne Vance assisted with licensing for Signature Healthcare Services as they expanded into the Sacramento region with the Sacramento Behavioral Health Hospital. The 117-bed facility is the first acute psychiatric hospital to be licensed in California in 30 years. The hospital began accepting patients in December, but it is still…
Weintraub Tobin has expanded to include a Healthcare practice as a result of its merger with Salem & Green, effective January 1, 2022. Healthcare and business attorneys Julie E. Green, Christopher F. Anderson, and Jeanne L. Vance have joined the Corporate Group. These attorneys are practicing at the forefront of…
Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that as of January 1, 2022, healthcare and business law firm Salem & Green will merge with and into the Weintraub firm. Sacramento-based attorneys Julie E. Green, Christopher F. Anderson, and Jeanne L. Vance will join Weintraub’s Corporate Group. Founded in 1999, Salem &…
The Committee follows and develops content for AHLA members on issues related to healthcare reimbursement and coverage, including Medicare and other government payer laws, regulations, and instructions, as well as issues related to health care organizational accreditation such as the Joint Commission and other accrediting entity standards. Jeanne has been…
Jeanne L. Vance contributed to a co-authored article on Medicare enrollment and certification trends that was published in the March 2017 issue of The RAP Sheet, which is a publication of the Regulation, Accreditation and Payment Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association. The article discusses what to expect…
Jeanne L. Vance has been invited to speak at the American Health Lawyers Association’s annual Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues Conference for the sixth consecutive year. She will co-present on the topic of “Fundamentals of Provider Enrollment” with Emily Towey of Hancock, Daniel, Johnson & Nagel, P.C., of…
The Regulation, Accreditation, and Payment Practice Group (RAP PG) leadership of the American Health Lawyers Association will hold its next open membership call on Wednesday, November 4, from 3:00-4:00 pm Eastern. The call will include an educational discussion lead by Jeanne L. Vance, entitled: “The Uphill Path to Payment for…
In the March 2011 edition of The Rap Sheet, Weintraub attorney Jeanne Vance writes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) modified home health agency (HHA) Medicare provider enrollment provisions in two important ways. First, it extended the amount of time that a Medicare-certified HHA must meet initial capitalization…
Corporate Transparency Act Updates as Compliance Deadline Looms; Longer Disclosure Period and Public Hearing Now Required for Maternity/Psych Unit Closures; and California Governor Vetoes Healthcare Transaction AG Approval Process for Private Equity Transactions As we move into the fourth quarter of 2024, there are a flurry of breaking news items…
In connection with the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, marriage & family therapists (“MFTs”) as well as licensed professional clinical counselors (“LPCCs”) are eligible to receive payment from the Medicare program for covered behavioral health services with dates of services commencing January 1, 2024. This change was intended to…
In our practices, we are seeing an increasing number of denials or de facto denials of Medi-Cal provider enrollments. The consequences of a Medi-Cal enrollment denial can be quite serious. First, a provider may not receive reimbursement for services provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries when it is not an enrolled provider. Second, it takes…
I am fresh back from Baltimore, Maryland, where I was on the faculty of AHLA’s annual Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues. I have been on the faculty of this program for a dozen years, and am always thrilled to hear the latest in healthcare payment and reimbursement changes and trends. This…
On February 13, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) proposed a long-delayed regulation that would implement a provider enrollment provision of the Affordable Care Act that expands the information required to be disclosed by skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”). The law requires that SNFs report detailed information to CMS…
Certain healthcare transactions closing on or after April 1, 2024 are subject to an advance notice regulatory review and analysis by a newly created Office of Health Care Affordability (“OHCA”) within the California Department of Health Care Access and Information. The OHCA will prospectively analyze the transactions by conducting a…
I have been in healthcare legal practice since the mid-1990s. During a summer in law school, I worked for the California Legislative Counsel Bureau, which is the agency that serves as legal counsel to the California legislature. During my stint there, I recall various healthcare licentiates arguing about whether to…
This second transactions series installment involves consideration of professional licensing issues that arise in certain healthcare transactions with licensed professionals (including physicians), or so-called “corporate practice” issues. This series responds to the active transactional market for 2021 and the forecast for robust activity due to the interest of venture capital…
The past year in healthcare transactions has been one of the more interesting of my career, with the complete shutdown of certain industry segments for a period due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, modified business climate and reopenings, government stimulus payments through the CARES Act, Payroll Protection Program and…
On June 9, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it will allocate approximately $15 billion to providers who participate in state Medicaid program and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and who did not receive payments from the initial $50 billion in general allocations from…
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 pandemic on March 11, 2020.[1] As a result, there are more patients in need of immediate and attentive care, and many practices now have to consider how to continue providing necessary services while containing the spread of COVID-19 with balancing current and…
On October 10, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a memorandum to State Survey Agency directors regarding implementation of a moratorium on the establishment of new long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) and LTCH satellites as well as bed increases to such facilities. Read the full announcement: Accreditation, Certification…
On September 10, 2104, the California Department of Health Care Services (“DHCS”) announced that it will implement federal requirements for fingerprinting in the Medi-Cal provider enrollment process starting October 2, 2014. This new process implements a portion of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that requires DHCS to…
