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Jeffrey L. Heidt
Partner
Ropes & Gray
One International Place
Boston, MA 02110-2624
T + 1-617-951-7390
F + 1-617-235-7403
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Practice
Jeff Heidt is a partner in the Health Care Group of Ropes & Gray. Jeff’s practice is a mixture of corporate, regulatory and financial matters. The majority of clients for whom he now has primary responsibility are hospitals, health systems and their affiliated educational and business institutions some of which he has worked with for over three decades.
Professional Experience
Jeff’s early practice was focused on reimbursement matters, including successfully pursuing on behalf of dozens of hospitals and health systems across the country appeals from President Nixon's Price Controls, exceptions to Medicare routine cost limits, Medicare and Medicaid rate appeals, and appeals from Blue Cross final settlement determinations. On behalf of a Boston teaching hospital, he succeeded in challenging the first charge control regulations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Jeff’s early background in healthcare finance and payment systems proved invaluable to our clients during the course of their corporate reorganizations, the restructuring and integration of their delivery systems and in creating financing mechanisms that maximize the benefit to our clients of both public and private capital resources. He has been involved in the mergers and affiliations that have created most of the major healthcare systems in Massachusetts (including Boston Medical Center, CareGroup, Partners Healthcare and Caritas-Christi Health System) and provides continuing counsel to many of them and to their constituent institutions. Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Jeff was a partner and head of the health care group at a large Boston law firm.
Honors & Awards
- The Best Lawyers in America (since inception)
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2004-2008)
- Reeves Silver Merit Award for Outstanding Service to HealthCare Financial Management Association (2000)
- The William G. Folmer Merit Award for Outstanding Service in Chapter Activities of HFMA (1986)
Professional & Civic Activities
- Frequent lecturer at HFMA, MCLE, hospital association, health insurance, medical society and bar association sponsored events
- Two-time trustee and Chair of various committees of the Massachusetts Chapter of the HFMA (1974-present)
- Muncie Gold Merit Award for Outstanding Service of Massachusetts Chapter of HFMA (2006)
- USAR, Signal Corps (1970-72)
- Member of original AHA Medicare Advisory Committee
- Author of numerous articles on health care issues
Memberships & Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- American Health Lawyers Association
- Boston Bar Association
- Health Law Forum of the American Bar Association
- Massachusetts Bar Association
Bar Admissions
Courts
- Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit
Education
- 1970,
J.D., Harvard Law School
- 1967,
A.B. (Philosophy), Brown University; with High Honors
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