Jaime L.M. Jones

JAIME L.M. JONES is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and global co-leader of the firm’s Healthcare practice. She is also a member of the Global Life Sciences Leadership Council and firmwide co-chair of SidleyWomen. Jaime draws on her extensive experience defending healthcare and life sciences companies in government enforcement actions and False Claims Act litigation to provide legal and compliance organizations and Boards of Directors with strategic, practical advice to manage enforcement, litigation, and regulatory risk.  

“Top of the class among all the lawyers that I have ever worked with. We entrust Jaime with bet-the-company matters.”
Chambers USA — Healthcare: Pharmaceutical/Medical Products 2025

“Jaime is incredible, steeped in all things healthcare law and is our expert business counsellor. She's a great business partner and has a real understanding of practicalities. My go-to in this area.”
Chambers USA —Healthcare: Pharmaceutical/Medical Products 2025

Enforcement Defense and Strategy. Jaime has over 20 years of experience helping the world’s leading life sciences and healthcare companies to navigate civil and criminal enforcement actions at the cutting edge of government enforcement theories. While she has negotiated many high-profile public settlements she has brought many more matters to an efficient close without negotiated resolutions or litigation. Among other issues, she has deep experience defending enforcement matters based on allegations of:

• Violations of the False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, Beneficiary Inducement Statute, and other healthcare fraud and abuse laws
• Off-label promotion, pre-approval promotion, risk minimization, and other allegations of improper promotion of drugs and medical devices in violation of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
• Billing and coding issues, including in the hospital inpatient and outpatient, behavioral health, Medicare Advantage risk adjustment, and pharmacy settings
• Violations of cGMP and Quality System regulations
• The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws

Jaime also leads teams to conduct discrete and efficient internal investigations and helps healthcare and life sciences companies to remediate identified issues.

False Claims Act Litigation. Jaime co-leads the firm's Chambers Band 1 False Claims Act team (2025). She handles FCA litigation in both state and federal courts and has successfully defended qui tam claims brought against pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, healthcare providers, and private equity funds in courts across the country. In 2025, Jaime was lead counsel for Novo Nordisk Inc in securing the first defense verdict for a pharmaceutical company ever in a False Claims Act jury trial. In that case, the plaintiffs alleged off-label promotion and violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute related to both doctor and patient interactions. Sidley secured a unanimous jury verdict in less than four hours after a three-week trial.   

“Jaime is extremely adept and agile in her work style; she has a strategic mind and is always forward-thinking for the best outcomes for the client.”
Chambers USA — False Claims Act 2025

Practical Regulatory and Compliance Counseling. Jaime provides strategic counseling advice on healthcare fraud and abuse and regulatory issues to help companies achieve their objectives and minimize risk. She routinely counsels clients on fraud and abuse, coding and billing, and reimbursement issues, referral source, joint venture, and value-based care arrangements, patient access programs, and promotional activities of FDA-regulated entities.

She has negotiated significant Corporate Integrity Agreements with HHS-OIG and assists her clients to build global corporate compliance programs that are effective at identifying and addressing real areas of risk and are right-sized for their business. She regularly assists her clients in performing compliance audits.

Advisor to PE and Other Investors. Jaime brings these same skills to bear to counsel private equity and other investors exploring and executing on opportunities in the healthcare and life sciences industries. 

Representative matters handled by Jaime include the following:

Enforcement Matters

• Representation of a healthcare provider in a DOJ False Claims Act investigation spanning the company’s patient services nationwide and raising allegations of violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute, Beneficiary Inducement Statute, and coding and billing issues. 
• Representations of NGS testing laboratories in DOJ False Claims Act investigations related to compliance with the Medicare 14-Day Rule.
• Representation of a private equity fund in a DOJ False Claims Act investigation focused on whether it can be liable for causing the submission of false claims by providers in connection with the sale of medical devices by a portfolio company.
• Representation of a pharmacy provider in a DOJ and state AG investigation related to Usual & Customary pricing allegations.
• Representation of a national Medicare Advantage provider practice related to alleged upcoding and resulting violations of the False Claims Act, resulting in the successful and first provider-side resolution of such claims.
• Representation of a healthcare provider management services organization in a False Claims Act investigation related to the medical necessity of certain procedures for which the client provided oversight and billing services.
• Representation of numerous pharmaceutical companies in DOJ False Claims Act investigations focused on promotional speaker programs.
• Representation of two multinational pharmaceutical companies in criminal and civil investigations by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices for the District of Massachusetts and the Eastern District of New York of alleged fraud on the FDA and Patent and Trademark Office as a predicate to FCA liability.
• Representation of a national provider practice in a DOJ investigation of alleged upcoding of emergency services.
• Representation of a global pharmaceutical company in a DOJ criminal investigation involving allegations off-label promotion and risk minimization. 
• Representation of a biologic manufacturer in a DOJ parallel civil and criminal investigation of alleged off-label promotion.
• Representation of an emergency medicine provider in a Congressional investigation.
• Representation of a pharmacy provider in connection with a DOJ False Claims Act investigation related to alleged violations of the AKS in connection with the provision of patient financial hardship waivers and other billing issues and in connection with the pharmacy’s adherence programs funded by pharmaceutical manufacturers.
• Representation of a pharmaceutical manufacturer in a criminal investigation into alleged violations of cGMP regulations. 
• Representation of a national provider of behavioral health services in a False Claims Act investigation based on allegations that therapy services provided were not properly documented, supervised, or were medically unnecessary.
• Representation of a global medical device and diagnostics testing company in an FCPA matter arising from certain arrangements and operations in Brazil.
• Represented GE Healthcare in connection with an investigation of the company’s pricing and promotion of a radiopharmaceutical product. 
• Representation of a global pharmaceutical manufacturer in a False Claims Act investigation related to alleged violations of cGMP requirements at its primary manufacturing site.
• Representation of a global drug and medical device manufacturer in a DOJ criminal investigation related to alleged violations of the AKS in connection with certain arrangements with physician key opinion leaders and promotional speakers.  
• Representation of a global pharmaceutical company in a DOJ investigation focused on whether certain bundled discounts were structured outside of the discount safe harbor to the AKS and caused the submission of false claims by hospitals.
• Representation of a global medical device manufacturer in an FCPA investigation related to the company’s arrangements with certain physicians in Israel.
• Representation of a global drug manufacturer in an investigation by California into alleged violations of the California Insurance Fraud Prevention Act arising from alleged actions to delay generic competition and resulting impact to commercial payers.
• Represented a major pharmaceutical company in a civil investigation by DOJ and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago involving allegations of off-label promotion. The result was the closure of the investigation without any government action. 
• Represented a major pharmaceutical company in a civil and criminal investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles involving allegations of off-label promotion and kickbacks. The result was the closure of the investigation and a declination to intervene in the underlying qui tam. 
• Represented a medical device manufacturer in an investigation by FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations of manufacturing quality issues. The government closed the investigation. 
• Represented a major pharmaceutical company in an investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York into allegations related to sampling practices and government price reporting. 
• Representation of a major pharmaceutical company in connection with investigations related to product diversion. 
• Represented an institutional healthcare provider in OIG investigations, qui tam matter, and other enforcement and compliance-related matters based on alleged quality of care and coding and billing issues. 
• Representation of three global pharmaceutical manufacturers in False Claims Act investigations related to alleged fraud in their price reporting.

False Claims Act Litigation

• United States ex rel. Siegel v. Novo Nordisk, Inc. — full defense verdict following a three week jury trial in a False Claims Act suit alleging off-label promotion and violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute in connection with certain patient support programs and physician relationships. For this win, Jaime was recognized as Litigator of the Week by The American Lawyer.
• United States ex rel. Daniel v. Novo Nordisk Inc. — defense of a drug manufacturer in a pair of qui tam suits alleging off-label promotion and violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute related to the sale and marketing of its GLP-1 products.
• United States ex rel. Hernandez v. ScribeAmerica et al. — defense of a national provider of emergency room physician staffing in a qui tam suit alleging various coding and billing issues giving rise to False Claims Act violations. Secured a dismissal of all claims with prejudice.
• United States ex rel. Sorgi v. Jazz Pharmaceuticals — defense of False Claims Act claims premised on alleged fraud on the FDA and Patent & Trademark Office in securing a patent and Orange Book listing for a drug method of use. Secured a dismissal by Judge Saris of all claims.
• United States ex rel. Proctor v. Safeway, Inc. and U.S. ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu, Inc., Nos. 21-1326, 22-111 (S. Ct.) — representation of pharmacy respondents in the Supreme Court to resolve the question whether and when a defendant’s contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it ‘knowingly’ violated the False Claims Act.
• United States ex rel. Patel v. GE Healthcare, Inc. — defense of a drug manufacturer in a qui tam action alleging off-label compounding of radiopharmaceuticals and pricing and price reporting fraud. Suit dismissed with prejudice.
• United States ex rel. Sanchez v. AHS — defense of an inpatient behavioral health provider in a False Claims Act suit alleging billing fraud and non-compliance with state licensure requirements. Case successfully limited to a small number of patients and settled without imposition of a Corporate Integrity Agreement.
• United States ex rel. Kennedy v. Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. — defense of a pharmaceutical manufacturer in a qui tam action alleging off-label promotion and anti-kickback violations. Qui tam claims based on inpatient services, reimbursed under a prospective payment system, dismissed.
• United States ex rel. Grant v. Thorek Hospital — defense of a hospital in a qui tam action alleging government program fraud. Claims dismissed with prejudice. 
• Defense of private equity funds in federal and state court qui tam litigation in the Eastern District of Texas and Cook County, IL, arising from allegations regarding asset management fees charged to public investors. All claims dismissed with prejudice on summary judgment in the Eastern District of Texas action.
• Defense of a skilled nursing facility operator in litigation alleging false claims premised on false RUG scores and alleged understaffing.