Jennifer R. Warden focuses her practice on advising clients on a range of business and healthcare related transactional and litigation matters, including counseling healthcare providers, managed care organizations and facility owners in all facets of business and healthcare law. In her practice, Ms. Warden regularly counsels clients on compliance and healthcare business issues, including negotiating healthcare and provider contracts and structuring business transactions. She has experience in assisting healthcare providers and organizations with practice management issues, reimbursement matters and conducting day-today business operation to ensure compliance with the Stark law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, Medicare and Medicaid participation and requirements, and professional licensing rules. Ms. Warden has successfully represented clients in numerous Medicare and Medicaid matters, including victories in recovery audit appeals.

In her practice, Ms. Warden has represented and assisted with business planning for corporations, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, limited partnerships, general partnerships and entrepreneurs, including healthcare providers and practitioners, in transactions including acquisitions and sales of businesses, mergers, joint ventures, trade regulation, non-competition agreements, non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, shareholder disputes, non-profit and tax-exempt organizations, and general contract and business matters.

Ms. Warden is presently the Secretary/Treasurer of the Health Law Section of the Federal Bar Association and Co-Chair of a Health Law Section Committee of the New Orleans Bar Association. She is also a member of the Louisiana and Mississippi Bar Associations, American Bar Association and American Health Lawyers Association.

Ms. Warden received her Juris Doctor with certificates in common law and civil law from Loyola University in New Orleans. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Warden received a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees from Loyola University in New Orleans, LA.

Ms. Warden is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Louisiana and Mississippi. Ms. Warden lectures and writes frequently on managed care federal regulatory changes in healthcare and issues of interest to physicians and other healthcare providers.