Christopher M. Jedrey

Biography

Christopher M. Jedrey is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm’s Boston office.  He is co-partner-in-charge of its Boston Health practice, and national co-chairman of its Academic Medical Center practice.  Chris’ practice is concentrated in the areas of federal and state health care regulatory matters, including anti-kickback and Stark law requirements.  His practice also focuses on federal, state and local tax exemption requirements, and charitable trust and corporation law.

Chris represents clients in hospital mergers and physician practice mergers, joint ventures among health care providers, purchases and sales of physician practices, and sales of non-profit assets and operations to for-profit companies.  He has also assisted hospitals and health maintenance organizations with the organization, restructuring and “spin off” of affiliated group practices.  He represents academic medical centers for a variety of matters, including compliance with HHS requirements for human subjects research and IRS requirements for tax-exempt organizations, including incentive compensation plans for physicians.  Chris advises hospitals, colleges, universities, museums and other tax-exempt organizations with respect to the requirements for tax-exempt status and also provides regulatory and tax advice with respect to incentive compensation plans for executives.

Chris’ notable projects include: establishing HealthOne Care System, the parent company of four group practices with approximately 500,000 patients; advising University of Florida College of Medicine on the formation and financing of Florida Proton Therapy Institute; advising Partners HealthCare System on the merger of seven faculty practice foundations into Brigham and Women's Physicians Organization; acting as special counsel to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts on its plan of reorganization; advising Lasell College on the formation and financing of Lasell Village, a first-in-the-nation educational continuing care retirement community; and providing regulatory and tax advice on the formation and implementation of Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care, a path-breaking clinical and financial collaboration for adult medical oncology services among Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Chris is co-chairman of the Health Care Law Subcommittee of the American Bar Association Exempt Organizations Committee, Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, member of the editorial boards of BNA Medical Research Law & Policy and Taxation of Exempts, and member of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Advisory Committee on Public Charities.  He is a frequent lecturer at programs sponsored by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Federal Tax Institute, Massachusetts Medical Society, HealthCare Financial Management Association, Massachusetts Hospital Association, American Bar Association, Boston Bar Association and other organizations.  He has recently been a visiting lecturer at Harvard School of Public Health and Boston University School of Management, and is a lecturer on non-profit organizations in the Graduate Tax Program at Boston University School of Law.  He is also a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

While at the University of Massachusetts, Chris was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.  He was a Liberal Arts Fellow at Harvard Law School in 1980-1981.

Source: McDermott Will & Emery