Jon Joseph is a partner in Christian & Barton’s Health Care and Business Law practice groups. As a health lawyer, Mr. Joseph assists with buy-sell agreements and artificial intelligence in health care, including AI contracts. He is a sought after health care industry attorney who assists clients in HIPAA privacy and security matters, including responding to data breaches, and has years of experience drafting and reviewing physician employment agreements. Mr. Joseph also advises clients on private equity (PE) investments; medical staff issues; telemedicine and remote patient monitoring; Virginia Board of Medicine investigations and hearings and orders; and Medicare and Virginia Medicaid (DMAS) Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) provider contracts, and reimbursement audits and appeals. Mr. Joseph also advises clients on the Virginia Department of Health Certificate of Need (CON), in Virginia known as Certificate of Public Need (COPN), process and COPN applications.
Mr. Joseph is a member of the firm's Executive Committee, leads the firm's Health Care practice group and is a member, and former chair, of the Virginia Bar Association Health Law Section Council. In addition, he is a former adjunct professor of health law for the Master of Health Administration program at Virginia Commonwealth University.
PRACTICE AREAS
Health Care
Business Organizations and Corporations
ADMISSIONS
• Virginia
• Pennsylvania
• District of Columbia
Representative Health Law Matters
• Advised on innovative provider contracts for use in managed care contracting, including value-based care agreements.
• Negotiated multiple agreements between a large health system and vendors involving the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the delivery of health care and administrative services.
• Advised telehealth provider on legal issues related to a telehealth platform allowing physicians to provide specialty consults to hospitals nationwide.
• For several years, served as interim in-house counsel for large integrated health care organizations.
• Handled sales of health care facilities, including nursing homes and senior living providers.
• Represented facilities in PRRB appeals.
• Advised client on terms of vendor software agreements where arrangements are software as a service (SaaS) and records are maintained through cloud storage.
• Advised on purchase of a medical practice by private equity investor.
• Consulted with telemedicine providers on DEA, Board of Medicine and Board of Pharmacy matters.
• Handled the purchase of a home health agency.
• Advised on a data breach of health records system and subsequent governmental investigation.
• Assisted remote monitoring company with operations and sale of business.
• Assisted an ambulatory surgery center with a Certificate of Need application.
• Worked on virtual health contract with health system for synchronous and asynchronous services.
• Advised a physician group concerning a merger with another group.
• Counseled a physician on medical staff privilege matters.
• Advised on a management agreement for an assisted living facility.
• Assisted a nursing facility in Medicare Zone Program Integrity Contractor (ZPIC) appeal.
• Advised provider on Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) audit.
• Assisted medical school with establishing a clinic.
• Serves as counsel to several public health care authorities.
Boston University School of Law, J.D.
Case and Note Editor, American Journal of Law and Medicine
Middlebury College, A.B, Political Science
Cum Laude
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Virginia Bar Association
• Health Law Section, Council Member and Former Chair
American Bar Association
• Health Law Section
American Health Lawyers Association Arbitrator
• Certified Neutral for Alternative Dispute Resolution in Health Care Matters
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
• Mr. Joseph previously served on the boards of a Virginia nonprofit hospice agency, of a nonprofit home health agency that operated in the Hampton Roads and Central Virginia areas, and of a Virginia nonprofit senior living organization. In addition, he organized and serves as legal coordinator for the Virginia Bar Association initiative for pro bono services to the Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics.
Martindale-Hubbell
• AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated
The Best Lawyers in America®
• Health Care, 2012-2027
Virginia Super Lawyers
• Health Care, 2010-2026
Legal Elite (Virginia Business)
• Health Law, 2005-2011, 2013, 2015-2025
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
• Virginia Health Care Legislative Update, 2026
• Expanded Medicare RADV Audits: Appeals Process Explained, 2025
• Virginia Health Care Legislative Update, 2025
• Health Care Employer Alert: New FTC Rule May Impact Non-Competes, 2024
• Information Blocking and Behavioral Health Providers, 2024
• Foreward author and Virginia chapter editor, Health Information Privacy & Breach A 50 State Survey (Carol L. Eoannou ed., AHLA, 2022)
• Preparing Your Business for Compliance with Virginia’s New Consumer Data Protection Act, 2021
• Key Provisions of the CARES Act Impact Health Care Providers, 2020
• Families First Coronavirus Response Act and What Employers Need to Know, 2020
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
• Co-presenter, “States’ Renewed Focus on Corporate Practice of Medicine and Its Impact on Health Care Transactions,” American Health Law Association’s Health Care Transactions Conference, 2026
• Presenter, "Health Care AI in Practice: Navigating Data, Vendors and Regulatory Complexity," 2026
• Co-presenter, “Artificial Intelligence Embedded in Electronic Health Records—Liability, Compliance and Contract Strategies,” Healthcare Leaders Association of Virginia, 2025
• Co-presenter, “AI in Managed Care: Legal Uses and Abuses,” American Health Law Association’s Complexities of AI in Health Care Conference, 2025
• Co-presenter, “The Legal Challenges to AI in Managed Care,” American Bar Association’s Managed Care Institute, 2024
• Moderator, “Dr. Robot: Legal Issues in AI Delivery of Healthcare,” Virginia Bar Association’s 134th Summer Meeting, 2024
• Moderator, “Patient Data in the Cloud: Risks and Responsibilities in Health Care,” Virginia Bar Association’s 133rd Summer Meeting, 2023
• Co-presenter, “Taken by Surprise: Real World Plan and Provider Perspectives on the No Surprises Act,” ABA Managed Care Institute, 2022
• "What CSBs Need to Know About the No Surprises Act and Virginia's Balance Billing Law," Virginia Association of Community Services Boards, 2022
• "21st Century Cures Act: Information Blocking and Provider Responsibilities," 2021
• "Navigating the Virtual Behavioral Telehealth Delivery Maze," Virginia Association of Community Services Boards Public Policy Conference, 2020
• "42 CFR Part 2, Confidentiality in SUD Programs: What You Don't Know Can Hurt Your Patients," Virginia Association of Community Services Boards Public Policy Conference, 2020
• “DMAS Electronic Visit Verification Framework,” Virginia Association of Personal Care Providers Annual Education Conference, 2019
• “Medical Marijuana in Virginia—New Territory for Providers and Employers,” Virginia Association for Home Care and Hospice Annual Conference, 2019
