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.
Areas of Focus
Practices
Industries
Insights
News
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)
Professional & Community Involvement
- American Health Lawyers Association
- The Florida Bar
- Health Law Section
- Evidence Committee (2012–2015)
- Health Law Section
- Hillsborough County Bar Association
- Health Care Law Section
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
Education
- University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law (J.D., high honors, 2001)
- University of Richmond (B.A., magna cum laude, 1998)