Lawrence W. Vernaglia BA, MPH, JD

Lawrence Vernaglia is a partner and health care lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP and serves as chair of the firm’s Health Care Practice and Health Care Industry Team – named “Health Law Firm of the Year” by U.S. News - Best Lawyers on the "Best Law Firms" list (2012 – 2014). Mr. Vernaglia represents hospitals, health systems and academic medical centers and a variety of other health care providers.
Mr. Vernaglia'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.