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 agreements implementing friendly medical corporation models, hospital-based physician contracts, management agreements, medical director agreements, and various other contracts for services.

Jeanne provides Medicare and Medi-Cal enrollment assistance for changes of ownership and to reinstate billing privileges by filing for Corrective Action Plans, requests for reconsideration, and enrollment appeals. She is a member of the Planning Committee of the American Health Law Association's("AHLA") annual Healthcare Transactions conference. She was previously the Chair of the Regulation, Accreditation & Payment Practice Group of AHLA and was the founding chair of the AHLA Accreditation, Certification and Enrollment Affinity Group from 2012-2015.

She is experienced in analyzing issues under the Corporate Transparency Act, including reporting of beneficial ownership in connection with this law. She has provided expert witness testimony on healthcare 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 is a graduate of Mills College, B.A., and the UC Law San Francisco, J.D. 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.

Her experience includes:

Advice on emerging provider types and treatment models for behavioral health, including inpatient facilities (psychiatric hospitals, group homes with inpatient treatment components), psychiatric groups, therapists, autism services providers and telehealth providers.
Counseling and assistance with Medicare certification issues including enforcement issues for co-located hospitals and off-campus provider-based hospital locations.
Licensing of all healthcare provider types (including licensing of newly-constructed hospitals, facility relocations and consolidations) whether regulated by the California Department of Public Health or the California Department of Social Services.
Healthcare regulatory and compliance counseling (including reimbursement/payment issues).
Analysis of other state law healthcare issues such as the corporate practice of medicine and healthcare practitioner scope of practice.
Legal support to legislative advocates in the healthcare industry.
Scope of practice and payment issues for the use of mid-level practitioners.