Structuring Healthcare Transactions - 
How to buy and sell assets to support the development and operation of a health system as a whole

Healthcare Fraud & Abuse -
Latest developments on Stark, Anti-Kickback, and False Claims Act regulations

Healthcare Compliance - 
Rules that govern the provision of healthcare services in the United States

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Vonne provides a strategic and operational advisory services to for-profit and not-for- profit healthcare organizations. Vonne is a practical, no-nonsense leader who leverages her extensive expertise to provide her clients practical approaches for managing complex issues.

Prior to starting her consulting firm, Vonne was Associate University Counsel for Duke University and Duke University Health System where she provided advice and counsel to one of the world’s preeminent health systems on a broad range of regulatory, operational, and transactional matters. Before joining Duke, Vonne spent more than a decade serving as in-house and outside counsel for a broad range of healthcare providers and companies, including hospitals and health systems, academic medical centers, long term care facilities, physician organizations and specialty care providers, primarily focused on transactional, operational, and regulatory matters.

A graduate of Furman University and Duke University School of Law, Vonne is a member of the Ohio and Tennessee bars, and co-authored “Potential Liabilities of Directors and Officers of Health Care Organizations” published annually in the American Bar Association Health Law Section’s Health Care Fraud & Abuse: Practical Perspectives, edited by Linda A. Baumann, from 2005 to 2008. She is a former Vice-Chair of Membership for the American Health Lawyers Association In-House Counsel Practice Group, and served on the planning committee for the Health Care Transactions Program from 2016-2022. Based in the firm’s Raleigh office, Vonne Jacobs focuses her practice in the area of health care transactions at Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman. 

An engaging & entertaining presenter, and nationally recognized as an expert in her field, she is a frequent speaker on issues related to regulatory compliance (e.g., the Stark Law, the federal Anti- Kickback Statute, HIPAA, etc.), hospital-physician transactions, physician compensation, and corporate governance issues.