Jay Gerzog

Jay Gerzog is recognized nationally as a leading healthcare and nonprofit corporate lawyer with over 30 years of experience representing both tax-exempt institutions and for-profit companies, primarily in the healthcare sector.

Advising on a wide range of transactional matters, Jay has handled complex corporate affiliations and disaffiliations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, operational and contracting matters, and strategic planning.

Jay's healthcare clients include integrated healthcare delivery systems, hospitals, academic medical centers, ambulatory surgery centers, managed care organizations, private equity and strategic investors, management companies, physician groups, scientific research organizations, payers and various other healthcare providers and tax-exempt organizations.

In the nonprofit and tax-exempt organization area, Jay provides counsel on obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt and public charity status and with compliance with state nonprofit laws and federal tax law for tax-exempt organizations. He advises nonprofit clients on the development and implementation of corporate governance, fiduciary duties, conflict of interest, ethics, audit and executive compensation best practices, and compliance programs and policies, including on management structures and internal control systems to prevent and detect violations of law.

Jay’s experience includes representing nonprofit managed care plans in the sale and dissolution of their operations and the related complex state regulatory approval process. He is uniquely experienced in the conversion of nonprofit entities, such as Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans and various healthcare facilities, to for-profit status. He also led the $3.75 billion Fidelis Care asset sale to Centene Corporation, a landmark transaction that funded one of the nation’s largest healthcare grantmaking foundations.