Jennifer Reedstrom Bishop

Practice Areas

Health Care Regulatory & Compliance Counseling

Health Care Transactions

Nonprofit & Tax-Exempt Organizations

Education

Charitable Gift Planning

Career

Jennifer Reedstrom Bishop has worked exclusively with nonprofit organizations for over 20 years. Jennifer’s practice is focused on the health care sector and she regularly advises physicians, hospitals, clinics and other health care entities on negotiating the complex health regulatory environment.

She also provides advice on strategic partnerships, including joint ventures, affiliations, medical staff matters, contracting, tax-exemption matters and a variety of business planning topics. Jennifer has a particular interest and experience in working in academic health care environments and brings a unique understanding of the complexity of those settings with an eye toward providing practical advice supported by deep technical knowledge.

Jennifer works in other settings within the nonprofit sector, from serving as outside counsel to large academic-related foundations and private foundations, to assisting start-up nonprofits and religious organizations, her practice spans the spectrum of the nonprofit sector. She regularly counsels charities on accepting complex and unusual charitable gifts, such as LLC or closely held stock, as well as acceptable gift restrictions and donor involvement. Jennifer has unique insight in permissible restrictions on scholarships, including those which might be limited under Title VI and Title IX. She is keen on all issues facing nonprofits from mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and restructuring affiliated structures, to governance matters such as conflict of interest, intermediate sanctions, public charity status and private foundation issues.

Jennifer is also a firm leader — she serves as practice group leader for the firm’s Health & Nonprofit Organizations practice group and is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Experience

Serves as outside counsel to medical school faculty practice plan with over 1,100 physician members, with a particular focus on strategic partnerships and collaborations

Structures health care affiliations, collaborations and joint ventures including ventures between tax-exempt hospitals and health systems and for-profit physician groups

Provides advice to physicians and hospitals regarding physician recruitment and physician compensation issues

Counsels hospitals, clinics and physicians on issues related to Medicare/Medicaid laws and regulations including Stark, fraud and abuse and reimbursement

Serves as outside counsel to sole university-related foundation of public land grant university focusing on corporate governance, corporate and unusual gifts

Provides counsel on charitable purpose and restricted gift issues

Advises public charities, private foundations and trade associations on nonprofit corporation governance, including conflicts of interest, fiduciary responsibilities and intermediate sanction issues as well as community board requirements, private benefit issues and reasonable compensation

Represents nonprofits on issues related to formation and retaining federal tax-exempt status including public charity classification, unrelated business taxable income and tax-exempt bond financing issues including private use of bond facilities and management contract issues