Jean focuses her practice on health care transactional, regulatory, and enforcement defense matters. She represents a variety of clients across the health care industry, including hospitals, physician organizations, health care systems, and long-term and urgent care providers.
Jean’s health care industry transactions experience includes mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and due diligence for health care providers and investors across the United States. Her recent transactional experience includes representing a Fortune 250 kidney care company, providers of radiology services, a private equity funded cardiology platform, and a national veterinary practice. She also has experience in health care enforcement defense, including supporting clients undergoing federal and state agency investigations, preparing self-disclosures to federal and state agencies, and conducting internal compliance investigations. She regularly advises on various health care regulatory topics, including telehealth, scope of practice, and the corporate practice of medicine. Additionally, she advises clients in the cosmetics, medical device, and pharmaceutical industries on FDA regulatory and compliance matters.
Jean maintains an active pro bono practice at Mintz. Recently, Jean succeeded on an appeal before an administrative law judge and secured social security benefits for her client. Jean is also Senior Fellow for the Gitenstein Institute of Health Law and Policy at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. She frequently speaks at Hofstra University events focused on building a career in health law and mentors law students interested in pursuing the field.
Prior to joining Mintz, Jean was an associate at a Long Island, New York-based boutique law firm that serves the health care industry, where she counseled clients on a broad range of health care compliance and health care litigation matters. During law school, Jean focused her professional and academic experiences on health law. She held legal internships at a national pediatric urgent care practice, a major nonprofit health care system in New York, and the Health Care Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office. Upon law school graduation, she received the Excellence in Health Law Award and concurrently earned a Master of Public Health through her law school’s joint-degree program.
viewpoints
Health Law Diagnosed — Mintz’s 2022 Health Law New Year’s Resolutions
January 12, 2022 | Podcast | By Bridgette Keller
An Overview of Pharmaceutical Sales Representative Licensure and Registration Laws in the United States
January 6, 2022 | Blog | By Jean D. Mancheno, Joanne Hawana
New Year, New Laws: An Overview of New Laws Impacting New York Nursing Homes in January 2022
December 21, 2021 | Blog | By Cody Keetch, Jean D. Mancheno
Entirely Virtual Shareholder & Member Meetings Now Permitted in New York
November 23, 2021 | Blog | By Cody Keetch, Jean D. Mancheno
News & Press
MoCRA- Industry Must Prepare For Mandatory Adverse Event Reporting And Safety Substantiation Now: Expert
January 11, 2023
Mintz Member Joanne Hawana and Associate Jean Krebs were interviewed by CosmeticDesign about legal reform in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Avoiding Pandemic Predicaments
May 1, 2021
Racial Disparities in Payment Source of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment among Non-Incarcerated Justice-Involved Adults in the United States
February 1, 2020
Publications
- Co-author, The Grocer Will Fill Your Order Now: Modernizing Online Food Shopping Becomes a Priority for Federal Agencies, Update Magazine (Fall 2023).
- Co-author, An Examination of State Trends in Facility Fee Legislation as New York’s Public Health Law § 2830 Takes Effect, New York State Bar Association’s Health Law Journal (September 2023)*
- Co-author, An Overview of the Office of Medicaid Inspector General’s Proposed Medicaid Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Prevention Regulations, New York State Bar Association’s Health Law Journal (January 2023)*
- Co-author, Avoiding Pandemic Predicaments, Outpatient Surgery Magazine (May 2021)
- Co-author, Racial Disparities in Payment Source of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment among Non-Incarcerated Justice-Involved Adults in the United States, Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics (March 2020)
- Author, Any Man Can Be a Father, but Should a Dead Man Be a Dad?: An Approach to the Formal Legalization of Posthumous Sperm Retrieval and Posthumous Reproduction in the United States, Hofstra Law Review (Fall 2018)
*Reprinted with permission from the New York State Bar Association © 2023.
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- Member, American Health Law Association
- Member, New York State Bar Association
- Member, New York State Bar Association Health Law Section Membership Committee
- Member, Food & Drug Law Institute’s New to FDA Law and Regulation Committee