Jacqueline C. Leifer
jleifer@feldesmantucker.com
Phone:  (202) 466-8960
Fax: (202) 293-8103

Professional Information:

Jacqueline Leifer counsels several national associations, state affiliates, health care organizations, and managed care entities and networks that have been formed by health care providers and their strategic partners.

She handles a variety of corporate issues, including development of articles of incorporation, bylaws, applications for tax exempt status, personnel and financial policies; negotiation and enforcement of contracts with employees, vendors, insurers and federal government agencies; corporate restructuring, consolidations and affiliations; corporate compliance programs; and risk management. In addition, Ms. Leifer counsels health care clients on issues related to: Medicaid and Medicare managed care programs and reimbursement, federal grants, anti-kickback laws, "Stark" self-referral laws, antitrust and federal tax exemption.

Ms. Leifer regularly teaches courses for the boards and staff of hundreds of nonprofit organizations, including state-based affiliates and national associations. She has made presentations to the following organizations, among others: the Independent Sector, the National Risk Management Institute, the National Center for Nonprofit Boards, the Support Center, the National Association of Community Health Centers, the National Health Council, and the National Assistance Management Association.

Prior to joining the law firm in 1980, Ms. Leifer served as an attorney advisor in the Office of General Counsel of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, where she served as principal counsel to the Bureau of Community Health Services (now the Bureau of Primary Health Care).

Current Employment Position:

Senior Partner

Year Joined Organization:

1980

Areas of Practice:

Corporate & Business Law
Government Grants & Contracts
Health Law

Bar Admissions:

District of Columbia

Education:

Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York, 1977 J.D.

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1974 B.A.

Published Works: 

National Association of Community Health Centers, Affiliations Between Health Centers and Other Community-Based Providers, contributing author (2004)

"Grants Administration Handbook for Community & Migrant Health Centers", Society for the Advancement of Ambulatory Care (1987; revised and published by the National Association of Community Health Centers (2004)

Texas Association of Community Health Centers, Collaboration Options for the Provision of Primary Care and Behavioral Health Care Services, contributing author (2004)

National Association of Community Health Centers, The NACHC Fraud and Abuse Manual, contributing author (2004)

Edelstein, Burton L., Increasing Access to Dental Care Through Public/Private Partnerships; Contracting Between Private Dentists and Federally Qualified Health Centers, developed for the Connecticut Health Foundation, contributing author (2003)

National Association of Community Health Centers, The NACHC Corporate Compliance Development Program, contributing author (2002)

Birth Information:

1952
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