Biography

Edgar ("Jed") C. Morrison, Jr. has practiced health care law since 1981. Prior to moving to San Antonio, Mr. Morrison was Republican Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee and was later counsel to the Health Care Financing Administration in the Department of Health and Human Services, in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Morrison specializes in the regulatory and transactional aspects of health care law. He has extensive background in Medicare and Medicaid regulatory and reimbursement issues, antitrust, fraud and abuse, physician referral legislation (including recruitment contracts and joint ventures), and managed care issues. In 2000-2001, Mr. Morrison served as Special Outside Counsel to the Texas Attorney General for managed care matters. His clients include physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, medical equipment suppliers, pharmacies, and other health care providers.

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Organization Membership

Mr. Morrison is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the San Antonio Bar Association, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, and is a past director and Chairman of the Health Law Council for the State Bar of Texas. He is a member of the Health Law Exam Commission for the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Mr. Morrison is a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.

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Peer Recognition

Mr. Morrison is ranked as a top Health Care attorney in the prestigious Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business directory. He is recommended for his representation of physicians and other healthcare practitioners as well as for his antitrust expertise and is praised by commentators for his "distinguished statewide health care practice" [Chambers USA 2011]. Mr. Morrison is also listed in the 2006-2012 editions of The Best Lawyers in America under Health Care Law. He was named a "Super Lawyer" (2007-2011) by Thomson Reuters, the "Outstanding Lawyer--Health Care" for 2010 by the San Antonio Business Journal, and as a San Antonio "Best Lawyer" by Scene in S.A. in 2008 and 2009.

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Speeches / Publications

Mr. Morrison is a frequent author and lecturer on various aspects of health care law. His publications and speeches include "Bundled Payments," Evaluating and Negotiating Emerging Payment Options (2012); "Medicare Fundamentals," 23rd Annual Texas Health Law Conference, 2011; "Healthcare Reform: How it will Affect Your Practice," Synerimages Rehabilitation Conference, 2011; Accountable Care Organizations: Summary of CMS Proposed Rule, Jackson Walker E-Brief, April 2011; "Stark Statute: Do's, Don'ts, and Exceptions," American Academy of Family Physician Scientific Assembly, San Diego, September 2008; and "FTC Keeps the Pressure on Physician Networks" Jackson Walker, LLP HealthBrief - Summer 2004.

Links to Publications

• Medicare Confirms Requirement to Return Overpayments Within 60 Days
• Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Health Reform Law
• Improperly Supervised Diagnostic Imaging Constitutes False Claims
• New Laws in Texas Could Make It 'Less Cumbersome' to Form ACOs
• New Texas Law Allows Physician Assistants to Own PAs and PLLCs
• Opposition to Draft ACO Regulations Spells Trouble for Federal Programs
• CMS Announces Bundled Payment Initiative
• A Journey to Greatness
• CMS Responds to ACO Criticisms
• Health Care Law e-Brief -- Accountable Care Organizations: Summary of CMS Proposed Rule
• Jackson Walker Preparing e-Brief on Accountable Care Organizations Proposed Rule
• New Medicare Requirements for "Advanced" Diagnostic Imaging
• EEOC: Hospital Cannot Refuse to Hire "Latex Glove Allergic" Employees
• Key Portion of Health Reform Bill Struck Down by Virginia Federal Judge
• Medicare Physician Pay Cut Further Delayed
• AHLA Releases Option Paper to Waive Medicare Fraud and Abuse Provisions to Establish ACOs
• CMS Issues Stark Self Disclosure Protocol
• CMS Issues Proposed Rule for Stark Hospital Exception
• FTC Agrees to Defer Application of Red Flags Rule to Physicians
• CMS Revokes Medicare Enrollment for Physicians Failing to Report Address Change
• CMS Instructs Carriers to Hold Physician Claims Until June 15
• CMS Instructs Carriers to Hold Physician Claims Until June 15
• Stark Hospital Exception Amendments Create Confusion
• Failure to Disclose Availability of Imaging Competitors Constitutes New Stark Violation
• Health Reform Act Adds Further Strength to False Claims Act
• E-Alert Correction
• Owners May Not "Flip" Home Health Agencies
• Hospital Based Physicians in Texas Must Mediate Out-of Network Fee Disputes
• Health Care Provider Compliance Checklist
• What To Do About Flu: Key Legal Issues for Health Care Providers
• Double Jeopardy: IRS Collects Back Taxes from Medical Group
• CMS Withdraws IDTF Enrollment Rule
• IRS to Collect Back Taxes by Recouping Medicare Payments
• CMS Issues New Stark Regulations
• CMS Publishes New Stark Rules
• CMS Buries Stark Landmines in 1700 Page Hospital Inpatient PPS Regulations
• Fifth Circuit Overturns $360 Million Peer Review Judgment in Favor of Dallas Cardiologist
• Congress Overrides Veto, Turns Big Physician Pay Cut Into a Small Increase
• Regulatory Reminder: Stark Requires Individual Contracts for Physician Independent Contractors
• Fifth Circuit Upholds FTC Ruling Against Fort Worth IPA
• Margin Tax: Comptroller Expands Definition of Uncompensated Care
• Hospital Board Chairman Personally Liable for Hospital Payroll Taxes
• Reminder to All Providers: March 1st deadline for NPI's
• CMS Temporarily Backs Off Stark Law Changes
• HealthBrief - Fall 2007
• CMS Cracks Down on "Under Arrangements" Relationships
• OIG Approves Texas False Claims Act
• NPI: Get It. Share It. Use It.
• "Incident To" Billing Disagreement Does Not Constitute a False Claim
• 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) National Provider Conference Call with Question & Answer Session
• Fifth Circuit Calls Into Question Employee Safe Harbor
• CMS Implements Financial Incentives for Quality
• HealthBrief - Fall 2006
• Medicare Holds All Payments in September
• National Provider Identifier Compliance Date
• The New Margin Tax: Unintended Consequences for Healthcare Providers
• Stark and Anti-Kickback Initiative Announced
• FTC Again Settles Price Fixing Charges With Texas IPA
• Ban on Specialty Hospitals May Become Permanent
• Katrina Emergency Measures for Healthcare Providers
• CMS Adds Nuclear and PET to Stark Law
• Fifth Circuit Rules Provider Managed Care Claims Not Subject to Medicare Jurisdictional Requirements
• OIG to Scrutinize Duplicate Payments to SNF's
• HealthBrief - Fall 2004
• HealthBrief - Summer 2004
• CMS Issues Guidance on New Reassignment Provisions
• CMS Publishes Stark Phase II Final Rule
• HealthBrief - Winter 2004
• Congress Radically Alters Medicare Reassignment Prohibition
• Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Continued Vitality of Physician and Physician/Hospital Joint Ventures
• Billing Medicare More Than Other Payors
• CMS Contemplates Changes In Physical Therapy Billing
• CMS to Add Nuclear Imaging to List of Stark Procedures
• Office of Inspector General Releases Board of Directors Corporate Compliance Guidance
• Congress Works to Restore Medicare Physician Payments
• Medicare And OIG Scrutinize Outlier Payments
• Attorney General Opinion on Confidential Information
• HealthBrief - Winter 2001
• CMS Requires Refund of Overpayments Within 60 Days
• Jackson Walker E-Alert: What Is A Clean Claim?
• Stark Comments Deadline Extended
• Stark Comments Deadline April 4th
• HIPAA On Hold?
• HealthBrief - Spring 2000
• What Happens When You Are the Target of an Investigation?
• HealthBrief - Winter 1999
• HealthBrief - Fall 1998
• HealthBrief - Spring 1998
• HealthBrief - Winter 1997
• HealthBrief - Spring 1997
• Recent Developments in State Insurance Regulations
• Antitrust Enforcement Efforts Against Hospital and Physician Networks (Willis Corroon July 1997)
• 1997 Medicare Update: Developments for Home Health and DME Providers
• HealthBrief - Summer 1995

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Latest News

• Jed Morrison Speaks at the 2012 Health Law Conference
• Jed Morrison Published in AMA's Manual on Emerging Physician Payment Models
• Jed Morrison Speaks on Health Care Reform
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• Jed Morrison Interviewed on Medicare Shared Savings Program
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