Jill Ojserkis is Chair of Cooper Levenson’s Healthcare Law Practice Group and a member of the Tax & Business and Cannabis Law Practice Groups. She represents hospitals, health systems, medical staffs, ancillary providers, and individual practitioners in healthcare transactions, governance, regulatory compliance, and medical staff matters, including fair hearings and discipline. Jill also advises health information exchanges, healthcare technology companies, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, and cannabis businesses on transactional, regulatory, and governance issues. Her practice is informed by over six years as acting in-house general counsel at a community health system and more than two years at a faith-based academic medical center, giving her firsthand insight into the operational and legal challenges facing providers.
Jill also provides guidance on tax and estate matters for healthcare and other clients, assisting with planning, structuring, and transactional needs. Known for her collaborative approach and deep industry relationships, she and her practice groups provide sophisticated counsel across corporate, transactional, regulatory, governance, tax, and estate matters, making her a trusted partner to executive and corporate leadership teams.
Practice Highlights:
Jill serves her clients on an array of matters, including:
•Physician/hospital relationships including physician peer review, fair hearings, and credentialing and privileging matters.
•Authoring, reviewing, revising Medical Staff, System and Hospital By-laws, rules, regulations, policies and procedures for compliance with the applicable federal, State, Joint Commission, DNV, CMS, CARF and AAAHC regulations and best practices.
•Lead counsel on business transactional issues such as managed care, information technology, practice acquisition, mergers, business entity formation, physician contracts, and practice disaffiliations.
•Formation and ongoing representation of two of the five health information exchanges established under the NJ Health IT Plan as well as the entity created to facilitate data exchange throughout the State of New Jersey and as a gateway to other states.
•Formation and ongoing representation of innovative Pennsylvania health information exchange established by 40 Philadelphia area hospitals/health systems and 3 payers.
•Nonprofit issues and tax exemption.
•Counseling on bioethical, guardianship, and consent matters.
•Physician practice formation, agreements, and ongoing representation
•Pro bono legal services for community-based nonprofit entities.
Awards and Recognitions
•Selected to the New Jersey Super Lawyers and Rising Stars list every year since 2013.
•Rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell in Healthcare, Trusts and Estates every year since 2014.
•Named to the ROI-NJ Influencers: Women in Business in Healthcare every year since 2021.
•Recognized as an ROI-NJ Influencer in Health Care every year since 2022.
•Selected by NJ Biz as a “Best Attorney in Healthcare” in 2015.
•Recipient, Edward R. Knight Award for Community Service by AtlantiCare Health System in 2023.
•Recipient, Community Difference Maker Award by the Mainland Regional Education Foundation in 2019.
•Recipient, Chairman’s Award from Coalition for a Safe Community in 2016.
•Inducted into the Atlantic County New Jersey Women’s Hall of Fame in 2009.
•Atlantic County Bar Association’s Benjamin A. Rimm Award for Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year award.
•Atlantic County Bar Association’s Outstanding Service to the Community and Bar Award.
•Greater Atlantic City Jaycees “Key Man of the Year” award.
Community
•Elected Member of Board of Education and President - Mainland Regional High School Board of Education
•Trustee and former Chair - South Jersey AIDS Alliance
•Trustee - Atlantic City Library Foundation
•Jill formerly served as a member of the Board of Trustees and in various leadership roles within:
•AtlantiCare Foundation
•Miss America Organization
•Miss America Foundation
•East Mountain Hospital
•United Way of Atlantic County
•Greater Atlantic City Jaycees
•Atlantic County Economic Development Advisory Commission
•Urban League of Atlantic City
•Jill has a significant pro bono clientele in Atlantic City and the area
•Volunteer Judge - State pageants in the Miss America system.
Articles
•Co-author with Laura Navarro, Esq. “Physician’s Handbook” 4th Edition, Chapter 10 - “Physician/Hospital Relationships,” published by the American Health Lawyers Association.
Seminars
Jill is a frequent lecturer at various NJ State Association of Medical Staff Services annual and chapter meetings including Economic Credentialing, Current Medical Staff Services Practices in NJ, Fair Hearings, and Medical Staff Bylaws, Presenter at American Health Lawyers Association Conference on “The Opioid Crisis, Litigation Risks, and Medical Staff Privileging.”
