Lawrence Vernaglia is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and serves as chair of the firm's Health Care Industry Team - named U.S. News ' "Health Law Firm of the Year" for 2011-2012. Mr. Vernaglia represents hospitals, health systems and academic medical centers and a variety of other health care providers. Mr. Vernaglia's practice involves regulatory and transactional matters, including Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement compliance advice and appeals; mergers, acquisitions and financings; state regulatory issues including licensing, change of ownership, and CoN/DoN; survey/certification appeals; fraud & abuse/Stark law analyses; managed care contracting; and general corporate and business planning in health care. He runs strategic planning programs for senior management and governing boards. He regularly serves as local counsel on health care transactions in New England for multi-state projects.
Mr. Vernaglia is a regular lecturer on hospital issues, physicians, long term care, and other topics in law and medicine. Speeches by Mr. Vernaglia addressed topics such as: accountable care organizations (ACOs); physician/hospital joint ventures; discount/collection policies for uninsured patients; the Anti-kickback Statute; corporate governance for nonprofits; the board of directors' role in compliance; reimbursement and managed care; and HIPAA.
Mr. Vernaglia is the past co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Health Law Section (2006-2008 term). He serves on the editorial boards of JONA's Journal of Healthcare Law, Ethics, & Regulation; andMedicine & Health/Rhode Island. Mr. Vernaglia is one of nine members of the Medical Economics' Board of Legal Editorial Consultants and for several years, he has been co-chair of MCLE's comprehensive Health Law Basics program and the advanced Health Law Conference. He is involved with several not-for-profit organizations as a board member and legal advisor. He has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system and has been named to the Massachusetts Super Lawyers ® list since its inception, an honor received by only 5% of Massachusetts attorneys. He has again been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 in the field of health care as well as listed in the 2008 - 2011 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers where he is described as "an energetic, broad-ranging and extremely thoughtful attorney."
Mr. Vernaglia is the co-editor of the book Healthcare Compliance Professional's Guide to the False Claims Act (2007). He is also the co-editor of the two volume treatise Massachusetts Health and Hospital Law Manual (2004, 2009, 2012). He has published more than 40 articles and book chapters on various topics in law and medicine in such sources as AHLA's Health Law Digest and Health Lawyers Weekly; Medical Economics; The Journal of Health Care Finance; The Boston Business Journal; and Health Care Policy Report.
Mr. Vernaglia earned his J.D. and his master's in public health from Boston University and his bachelor's degree from New College of Florida. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New York and New Hampshire.