Practices
- Accountable Care/Hospital-Physician Integration
- Business Transactions
- Compliance
- Digital Health and Health Care Technology
- False Claims Act
- Fraud & Abuse, Stark, Anti-Kickback Counseling and Defense
- Health Care Financial Restructuring
- Medicare, Medicaid, Other Governmental Reimbursement & Payment
- Telemedicine
Education
Brandeis University, B.A. cum laude, 2010
Boston College Law School, J.D., 2014
The George Washington University Law School, LL.M. Health Care Law, 2015
Bar Admissions
- 2014, Massachusetts
- 2014, Maryland
- 2016, Washington, D.C.
Jeremy Sherer is a health care attorney specializing in digital health matters and co-chair of the Firm’s Digital Health Task Force. He counsels health care providers and suppliers, including hospital systems, provider organizations, national telehealth platforms and digital health startups on issues involving regulatory compliance, transactions and innovative business arrangements.
Jeremy’s digital health experience includes counseling clients on state-level scope of practices issues (e.g., licensure, informed consent, practitioner-patient relationship establishment), Medicare, Medicaid and commercial reimbursement, corporate practice of medicine issues and e-prescribing (including controlled substances), as well as health care technology transactions. He also advises clients on compliance with fraud and abuse laws, including federal and state anti-kickback and self-referral laws, provider contracting, value-based care, and regulatory compliance issues.
Jeremy frequently speaks on digital health matters across the country, and is a member of the Legal Resource Team at the Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law (“CTeL”). He was named one of “12 Health IT Attorneys You Should Know” by Health Data Management in 2017, and received the American Bar Association Health Law Section’s “Emerging Young Lawyer in Health Care” award in 2019. He has also been named a “Rising Star” in health care law by Super Lawyers since 2017.
Representative Matters
- Regulatory Telehealth Counsel: Counsel one of the nation's largest hospital systems on state-level telehealth developments including scope of practice, physician-patient relationship establishment, and midlevel practitioner reimbursement issues, develop related operational guidelines for staff.
- Internal Investigations:Counsel hospital system investigating potential noncompliance with federal and state anti-kickback and self-referral authorities, and related self-disclosure protocols and overpayment proceedings.
- Telehealth Reimbursement: Counsel nationwide telehealth services provider on changes to Medicare reimbursement of telehealth and implications for Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage markets.
- Digital Health Start-up:Advise artificial intelligence start-up on regulatory issues involving state medical practice restrictions and the corporate practice of medicine prohibition.
- Contracting: Work closely with national hospital system to develop full suite of compliance policies and procedures, template agreements including professional services agreements, medical director agreements, and SaaS agreements, as well as training materials related to compliance with federal and state anti-kickback and self-referral laws.
- Regulatory Comments: Draft comments in response to proposed rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and other federal agencies for national trade association representing health care stakeholders on issues pertaining to health care technology.
- Tele-behavioral Health Network: Assist national hospital system in developing behavioral health network to address behavioral health provider shortage issues.
Honors & Awards
- Recognized by Chambers USA as an Up and Coming Massachusetts health law attorney, 2022
Presentations & Speaking Engagements
- Webinar, June 16, 2022
- June 7, 2022
- Webinar, April 7, 2022
- Webinar, February 16, 2022
- Webinar, December 9, 2021
- December 2, 2021
- Webinar
- Webinar, September 30, 2021
- Event Sponsor: C-Tel Spring SummitWebinar, June 11, 2021
- Event Sponsor: Massachusetts Health Data ConsortiumWebinar, June 10, 2021
- Strafford CLE, May 12, 2021
- Webinar, April 27, 2021
- January 13, 2021
- December 4, 2020
- December 2020
- November 12, 2020
- Virtual Webcast, November 5, 2020
- Webinar, October 21, 2020
- August 26, 2020
- Webinar, July 22, 2020
- July 17, 2020
- June 18, 2020
- May 6, 2020
- April 23, 2020
- April 15, 2020
- Webinar, April 2, 2020
- San Antonio, Texas, March 2, 2020
- Burlington, MA, February 28, 2020
- Sacramento, CA, February 13, 2020
- January 22, 2020
- December 4-6, 2019
- Lake George, NY, November 7, 2019
- Boston, MA, October 15, 2019
- San Diego, CA, September 12-13, 2019
- Chicago, IL, August 23, 2019
- San Diego, CA, July 14-17, 2019
- Webinar, July 9, 2019
- Portland, ME, June 17-18, 2019
- Washington, DC, June 13-14, 2019
- Boston, MA, April 11, 2019
- Webinar, April 9, 2019
- Boston, MA, April 7-10, 2019
- Orlando, FL, March 13-16, 2019
- Washington, DC, December 10-11, 2018
- Glens Falls, NY, November 7, 2018
- Stony Brook, NY, October 12, 2018
- Boston, MA, September 26, 2018
- Portland, ME, June 5-6, 2018
- Boston, MA, March 16, 2018
News
- June 24, 2022
- June 17, 2022
- June 2, 2022
- February 4, 2022
- January 3, 2022
- November 12, 2021
- October 12, 2021
- June 21, 2021Massachusetts Weekly
- May 20, 2021
- January 11, 2021
- December 3, 2020Wolters Kluwer's Health Law Daily
- November 23, 2020
- November 5, 2020
- October 13, 2020
- July 7, 2020
- May 20, 2020Wolters Kluwer Health Law
- May 2, 2020
- March 25, 2020
- March 18, 2020
- March 11, 2020
- March 9, 2020
- Hooper, Lundy & Bookman Ranked in the 2020 Edition of US News/Best Lawyers in America Best Law FirmsNovember 2, 2019
- October 28, 2019
- October 17, 2019
- October 1, 2019
- August 27, 2019
- August 5, 2019
- June 14, 2019
- May 8, 2019PRNewswire
- April 25, 2019
- April 17, 2019
- April 11, 2019Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
- March 25, 2019Managed Healthcare Executive
- March 15, 2019
- March 11, 2019
- February 11, 2019
- December 26, 2018
- November 19, 2018Bloomberg Law
- October 26, 2018
- September 25, 2018
- August 31, 2018
- July 14, 2018
- July 5, 2018
- June 21, 2018
- May 16, 2018HLB Health IT Blog
- April 19, 2018Bloomberg Law
- February 8, 2018BNA Health Care Daily Report
- December 11, 2017
- December 6, 2017Digital Insurance
- November 20, 2017
Health Law Perspectives
- June 20, 2019
- March 27, 2019
- June 2018
- February 2018
- October 15, 2017
Other Publications
- Telehealth Trends and Tips for 2020HCCA Compliance Today, March 2020
- Telehealth and Fair Market ValueABA Health Lawyer, Vol. 31, Number 2, December 2018
- HCCA Compliance Today, November 2018
- Digital Health Legal, Vol. 5, Issue 10 , October 2018
- ABA Health Law eSource, September 2018
Publications
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Contributor, How Academic Medicine Can Stay Ahead of the Curve on Telehealth Reimbursement and Regulatory Compliance, AHLA Health Law Connections (May 1, 2021).
- How has COVID-19 Affected Laws Regarding Telemedicine?, Super Lawyers (April 27, 2020)
- Telemedicine Can Help to Combat Opioid Epidemic, The Daily Journal (July 23, 2018)
- Privacy Compliance Highlights from 2017 – What Providers Should Know, Healthcare Financial Management Association Advisor, Vol. XLV, No. 3 (June 2018)
- Health Law Basics for Massachusetts Lawyers, New England In-House (November 2017)
- More Than Just Paperwork: Prior Authorizations, the Latest Enforcement Risk, Bloomberg BNA Health Law Reporter, 26 HLR 1441 (October 5, 2017)
- Fraud, Abuse, and the Value-Based Payment Regime: Is New Thinking Needed? American Bar Association Litigation Section, Summer 2016, Vol. 16 No. 4 (September 13, 2016)
- DOJ Targets Individuals for Violations of False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute, Journal of Health Care Compliance, Vol. 18, No. 4 (July - August 2016) (co-author)
- Value Based Reimbursement: The Rock Thrown into the Healthcare Pond, Health Affairs Blog (July 8, 2016)
- IRS ACO Ruling Analysis for NAACOS Members, National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (June 10, 2016) (co-author)
- The ACA 60-Day Overpayment Rule and Related Compliance Challenges, Journal of Health Care Compliance, Vol. 17, No. 6 (November - December 2015)
- DOJ Issues Memorandum on Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing: Implications for the Health Care Industry, AHLA E-Alert (September 22, 2015)
- Navigating CMS' Tangled Web of Stark Law Interpretation, Law 360 (July 22, 2015) (co-author)