Jay Anstine

Jay is a healthcare lawyer with significant industry knowledge of the U.S. healthcare market.  For the past 25 years, he has worked on the provider and the managed care side of the market, for large for-profit and non-profit health systems, and small physician-owned entities.  In tackling the countless regulatory and operational issues for these diverse organization types, he has developed a deep understanding of the business of healthcare, and the regulations governing the industry.

Specific to healthcare operations, Jay has worked on regulatory issues involving hospital inpatient and outpatient services, ambulatory surgery centers, physician services, skilled nursing services, home health, hospice, behavioral health, therapy, medical transport, durable medical equipment, managed care, and third party reimbursement to name a few. 

Additionally, he has worked with physicians involving nearly every specialty including: family practice, OBGYN, neonatology, pediatrics, orthopedics, emergency medicine, internal medicine, gastroenterology, hospitalist, anesthesia, general surgery, cardiology, pathology, radiology, and pulmonology.  

Specific to regulatory compliance, Jay has consulted to boards of directors, senior management, employees, and physicians on topics involving compliance program operations, fraud and abuse, billing & coding, patient confidentiality, EMTALA, Medicare Conditions of Participation, licensure, scope of practice, and telemedicine. 

 Jay routinely speaks and writes on regulatory compliance issues.  Since 2007, he has written articles for publications addressing various issues involving compliance program operations.  Since 2008, he has spoken routinely at regional and national healthcare compliance conferences on issues involving fraud and abuse, patient privacy and security, EMTALA, scope of practice, regulatory enforcement, and compliance program operations.  In 2018, Jay became an adjunct faculty member with the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, designing and teaching healthcare compliance courses.

Jay obtained his law degree from the University of South Dakota where he focused on healthcare law.  From 2012-2016, he served on the Board for a non-profit organization serving the medically underserved in Colorado (ClinicNET). He is also a member of the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA), serving on the planning committee for the Mountain Regional Conference since 2008.

To contact Jay, you can email him directly at janstine@bluebirdhealthlaw.com.