Jon T. Gatto

Overview

Jon Gatto is a board certified health care law attorney who focuses his practice on complex health care regulatory and transactional issues. Jon's specific areas of emphasis include:

• Public-private relationships in the health care space, including public hospital sales and leases, sovereign immunity, and compliance with the Sunshine Law and Public Records Act
• Medicare Advantage and other risk-based managed care payment models
• Stark Law, anti-kickback, and health care fraud and abuse
• Electronic health records
• Noncompetitive agreements in the health care space

Experience

• Regulatory counsel in four public hospital sale or lease transactions since 2014.
• Obtained $1.9 million arbitration award in favor of managed care corporation in dispute with independent practice association over risk-based reimbursement.
• Represented hospitals in government investigations regarding health care fraud and abuse.
• Represented hospitals for electronic health records donations to physician practices.
• Medicare and Medicaid self-disclosures to Office of Inspector General and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
• Medicare and Medicaid overpayment refunds.
• Physician practice breakups and realignment.
• Florida health care licensure matters.
• Stark Law and anti-kickback statutes matters.
• Public Records Act and Sunshine Law matters.
• Sovereign immunity matters.
• HIPAA and data privacy matters.

Recognition

• Board Certified in Health Law by The Florida Bar
• AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Outstanding Pro Bono Service by a Lawyer Award, Bay Area Legal Services (2018)
• Florida Rising Stars, Super Lawyers Magazine (2010–2016)

Speaking Engagements

• "Overview of the Medicare Advantage Program," Hillsborough County Bar Association Health Care Law Section (November 18, 2015)
• "Effective Strategies for Data Breach Prevention and Defending Data Breach Class Actions in the Health Care Industry," Carlton Fields Webinar (December 2, 2014)
• "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," George Edgecomb Bar Association (November 17, 2013)

Credentials

Background

• Associate, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Tampa, FL

Areas of Focus