Edgar C Morrison

Practice Areas

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Career

Edgar “Jed” C. Morrison, Jr., has practiced healthcare law for 35 years. He served as Republican counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee and, later, counsel to the Healthcare Financing Administration in Washington, D.C., before returning to Texas. Jed joined Jackson Walker as one of the founding members of its Healthcare Law section in 1994. He focuses his practice on the regulatory and transactional aspects of healthcare law.

Jed exclusively represents healthcare providers and other industry participants. His primary focus is helping his clients plan and structure their business operations to maximize their competitive effectiveness, while remaining aware of and compliant with vast state and federal healthcare laws and regulations.

Professional Memberships

Texas State Bar Health Law Council, Past Member; Health Law Council, Past Chair; Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Past Member Exam Commission – Health Law; Texas Bar Foundation, Life Fellow

Experience

AREAS OF FOCUS:

- Stark and Anti-kickback laws

- Medicare/Medicaid Reimbursement and compliance

- Corporate and partnership planning and structuring

- Healthcare licensing for individuals and entities

- Corporate practice of medicine restrictions

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS:

- Overturned Medicare suspension for large specialty medical group with no loss of revenues.

- Converted 300+ member medical group to alternative corporate structure, resulting in favorable partnership tax treatment, and preservation of all contracts and Medicare number.

- Formed accountable care organization and affiliated physician network for non-profit hospital.

- Served as Special Outside Counsel to Texas Attorney General for managed care matters.

- Managed care jurisdictional case of “first impression” in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, representing renal provider seeking prompt payment from managed care company.

- Successfully briefed and argued Medicare reimbursement appeal on behalf of 275 hospitals in the DC Circuit, overturning application of Medicare regulation that restricted the hospitals’ rights to appeal years of Medicare reimbursement.

Education