CMS and Hospital Co-location: Long-Awaited Draft Guidance

Lawrence Vernaglia is a partner and health care lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP where he is the department chair for the firm’s Industry Teams Department, responsible for overall strategy and leadership across all industry teams. Prior to that, he served for 8 years as chair of the firm’s Health Care Industry Team. Lawrence represents hospitals, health systems and academic medical centers and a variety of other health care providers. Lawrence's practice involves regulatory and transactional matters, including Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement compliance advice and appeals; mergers, acquisitions and financings; state regulatory issues including licensing, change of ownership, and CoN/DoN; survey/certification appeals; fraud & abuse/Stark law analyses; managed care contracting; and general corporate and business planning in health care. He runs strategic planning programs for senior management and governing boards.

Lawrence is the past co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Health Law Committee. He serves on the editorial boards of The Report on Medicare Compliance, JONA's Journal of Healthcare Law, Ethics, & Regulation; and Medicine & Health/Rhode Island. Lawrence is one of nine members of the Medical Economics' Board of Legal Editorial Consultants and for many years, he has been chair of MCLE's comprehensive Health Law Basics program and the advanced Health Law Conference. He is involved with several not-for-profit organizations as a board member and legal advisor. He has been a co-chair of the Health Care Compliance Association’s (HCCN) northeast regional annual meeting for the past decade.

Lawrence earned his J.D. and his master's in public health from Boston University, and his bachelor's degree from New College of Florida.

Danielle Miller is a Nurse Consultant at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.