Sophisticated Healthcare Counsel for Provider Organizations

Sarah Jessica Jafari is a Chicago-based healthcare attorney with more than 15 years of experience advising healthcare providers, executives, and organizations on complex legal, regulatory, and operational matters.

Drawing on extensive experience serving as general counsel within the healthcare industry, she provides discreet, strategic counsel tailored to the realities of modern provider operations. Her practice focuses on representing ambulatory surgical centers, diagnostic laboratories, physician-owned entities, and healthcare organizations navigating highly regulated and rapidly evolving environments.

Clients rely on her for thoughtful legal guidance, sound judgment, and a sophisticated understanding of both healthcare law and business operations.

A graduate of the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, Sarah combines executive-level healthcare experience with a practical, solutions-oriented approach that prioritizes long-term client relationships and institutional stability.

A Strategic Partner to Healthcare Leadership

Healthcare organizations today require more than technical legal advice. They require counsel who understands operational pressures, regulatory exposure, growth strategy, physician relationships, and organizational risk.

Having served in senior legal leadership roles for healthcare providers, Sarah offers the perspective of a trusted advisor who has worked alongside executives, operators, physicians, and boards in real-world healthcare settings.

Her counsel is informed not only by law, but by experience.

Representative Areas of Counsel

Healthcare Regulatory & Compliance

Advising providers on healthcare regulatory frameworks, compliance infrastructure, HIPAA, fraud and abuse matters, reimbursement considerations, and risk management strategy.

Outside General Counsel Services

Serving as trusted outside counsel to healthcare organizations requiring sophisticated day-to-day legal guidance and executive-level strategic support.

Ambulatory Surgical Centers

Representing surgical centers in governance, operational, transactional, and regulatory matters affecting ownership groups and management teams.

Diagnostic & Clinical Laboratories

Providing counsel to laboratories on compliance, contracting, operational risk, and healthcare business matters.

Healthcare Transactions & Contracting

Structuring, negotiating, and advising on physician agreements, vendor relationships, service contracts, operational partnerships, and healthcare-related transactions.

Philosophy

Exceptional legal counsel should bring clarity, discretion, and confidence to complex decisions