Lawrence W. Vernaglia is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and is Department Chair of the firm’s national Industry Teams Department, with responsibility of managing all Industry Teams. Prior to that role, he served as the Chair of the Firm’s Health Care Industry Team, which was named three times Health Law Firm of the Year by U.S. News during his tenure. Mr. Vernaglia is a health care lawyer with 30+ years’ experience representing a wide variety of players in the health care industry including hospitals & health systems, physician organizations, post-acute care providers, health care technology, drug and device companies. His practice involves regulatory, compliance and transactional matters including fraud & abuse/Stark law analyses and False Claims Act enforcement; Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement compliance advice and appeals; mergers, acquisitions and financings; state regulatory issues; managed care contracting; and general corporate and business planning in health care. He runs strategic planning programs for senior management and governing boards. He represents both nonprofit and for-profit/publicly traded companies. Larry is Outside Policy Counsel to the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association (MHA). He has served as interim general counsel for a large, national health care provider and interim chief compliance officer for a regional health system.
He teaches hospital law and health care corporate compliance at Boston University School of Law, where he was named part-time faculty member of the year (2023). He has also taught health care law at New England School of Law and Providence College, and chaired or spoken at more than 300 conferences, webinars and professional meetings relating to health care law and policy. He is the editor of several treatises on health care law, and is author of more than 75 articles and book chapters, including the chapter on U.S. health care law for an international resource The Healthcare Law Review, covering the laws of a number of countries across the globe. He serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board for the B.U. School of Public Health.
Larry earned his J.D. and M.P.H. from Boston University (1994) and his B.A in history from New College of Florida (1991). He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York.