Jeffrey Brian Miller

Jeffrey B. Miller, Esq. is a skilled and experienced transactional, commercial, regulatory, and compliance attorney who provides trusted advice and support to clients involved in healthcare and the life sciences, as well as other areas of business. He is a member of the firm’s Corporate Healthcare and Life Sciences, Mergers and Acquisitions, Risk Mitigation and Safety and Internal Investigations groups. Jeff also provides support to the firm’s Commercial Litigation team.

With nearly 25 years of experience, Jeff represents and advises organizations across healthcare and the life sciences spectrums, including hospitals and health systems, physician practices, and other healthcare providers, as well as management service organizations, medical device companies, pharmaceutical companies, and healthcare-related supplier and services companies. Often working with organization’s financial backers, including private equity, Jeff’s work includes evaluating and designing M&A transactions, including strategic planning, execution and due diligence, designing and negotiating commercial transactions, developing and executing executive and professional agreements and relationships, addressing a wide variety of regulatory matters, counseling clients on information privacy and security matters, and establishing and/or improving corporate ethics and compliance efforts. In this regard he helps to prepare organizations for sale, to perform due diligence activities, and to address other transaction-related activities, including closing and post-closing matters.

As part of his practice, Jeff addresses matters pertaining to government compliance such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and related Office of Civil Rights mandates, Federal and state false claims acts and anti-kickback statutes, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Federal and state conflicts of interestrelated requirements, including the Stark Law, and other legal and regulatory requirements. Jeff provides advice and representation to organizations involved with government agency or commercial payor legal actions, investigations, audits and reviews, including matters involving the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG), and the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), among other federal and state authorities. Further, Jeff assists clients in avoiding potential legal and regulatory entanglements by providing experienced counsel on the design, development and implementation of effective and efficient legal and regulatory compliance programs that satisfy applicable guidelines while enhancing company operations and value.

Prior to joining Saxton & Stump, Jeff held professional and executive-level positions at healthcare and life sciences companies, including Mercy Health System of Southeastern Pennsylvania, a non-profit regional integrated delivery system, and DermOne, LLC, a multi-state, private equity backed management service organization, where he served as general counsel, and compliance and privacy officer. Jeff served for nearly 10 years as vice president and chief compliance officer for Synthes, a leading international medical device company, which was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2012 and combined with DePuy to form The DePuy Synthes Companies, part of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, the world’s largest orthopedic and neurological businesses. Most recently, he served as a managing director at a financial and economic consulting firm that concentrated in forensics, valuation, intellectual property and performance optimization.

Jeff is regularly invited to present at global, national, regional and local organizations including the U.S. National Academy of the Sciences, the Ethisphere Institute, the American Bar Association, the American Health Lawyers Association, the Health Care Compliance Association, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics and Temple University. He is also a faculty member at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the continuing legal education arm of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, where he instructs attorneys and non-attorney compliance officers on transactional, commercial, regulatory and compliance-related topics.

Jeff also serves as Director-in-Charge for Granite GRC Consulting, a firm that provides governance, risk and compliance services.