Jennifer L. Butler

• Counsel to a wide range of health care providers, including hospitals, home health companies, dialysis providers and hospice companies on a variety of regulatory and legislative matters.
• Counsel to pharmaceutical companies on issues relating to coverage and reimbursement, health reform implementation, and legislative landscape.
• Counsel to a variety of health care associations on both regulatory and legislative matters.

Jennifer Butler brings over a decade of experience in representing leading health care companies. Jennifer concentrates her practice on health care regulatory and legislative matters. Her practice includes serving as chief health care counsel to Senator Robert J. Dole.

Jennifer represents clients on the full spectrum of health care issues, including Medicare and Medicaid coverage and reimbursement, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, Anti-Kickback and Stark statutes and HIPAA privacy and security laws. She concentrates her practice on general representation of health care companies, with an emphasis on specialized support to pharmaceutical companies. Jennifer's clients benefit from her unique ability to combine substantive expertise on issues with a comprehensive understanding of the legislative process. She is ranked in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America© in Health Care Law.

She received her J.D. in 1998 from Washington & Lee University, where she served as co-chairperson of the moot court board and was awarded first place in the John W. Davis Moot Court Competition. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, in 1995 from Florida State University.

Jennifer is a frequent speaker on a variety of health care topics, including Medicare Part D and health reform implementation. She also served for several years as the hiring partner for the D.C. office.

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Tennessee

Education

• Washington and Lee University (J.D., 1998)
• Florida State University (B.A., 1995)

Memberships