James M. Jacobson is a Partner in the Business Law Section of Holland & Knight. Mr. Jacobson has 15 years of experience serving clients in all sectors of the health care industry, including large national health plans, insurers, PPOs, and re-insurers; Fortune 500 self-insured plans; hospital-sponsored managed care programs and physician-hospital joint ventures; pharmaceutical manufacturers and benefit management companies; managed behavioral organizations; e-health, disease management, and healthcare technology companies; and national pharmacy chains. Mr. Jacobson represents clients in complex corporate and contractual transactions, fraud and abuse defense, Medicare, Medicaid, ERISA, HIPAA, state insurance and managed care law, legislative and regulatory drafting and advocacy, and corporate compliance.
He has served as general counsel to the Disease Management Association of America (DMAA) and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), and special counsel to the American Association of Preferred Provider Plans (AAPPO), America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), American Benefits Council (ABC), American Medical Association (AMA), American Hospital Association (AHA), and URAC. He has also been selected as special counsel for the Doctors Advisory Group at the American Medical Association. He has served on various task forces, coalitions and industry associations as an expert on managed care, HIPAA, and Medicare Parts C and D issues.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Jacobson was a partner in the health law group at another national law firm in Washington, D.C.; consultant to the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform in the Clinton administration; and in-house counsel at the American Psychological Association. He also served as a Judicial Clerk to Judge John Steadman, D.C. Court of Appeals. Before law school, Mr. Jacobson spent three years carrying out clinical research trials as a Senior Research Analyst in Psychopharmacology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Mr. Jacobson has frequently been recognized as a health law authority and has published numerous articles and book chapters on managed care, HIPAA, ERISA, and Medicare/Medicaid legal issues.