Jennifer Orr Mitchell

Jennifer Orr Mitchell focuses her practice on complex health care litigation, investigations, regulatory compliance, and cybersecurity. Jen is a chair of Dinsmore’s Health Care Industry and Government Relations practice groups and also leads the firm’s health care privacy and cybersecurity practice and initiatives.

She has significant experience leading the defense of health care entities in False Claims Act (FCA) and other litigation involving claims of health care program fraud and abuse.

Her litigation practice involves handling health care lawsuits in federal and state courts nationwide, including serving as national litigation counsel for a health care provider with locations across the country. She is experienced in ERISA and other benefits and coverage litigation, as well as business practices, fiduciary, and class action litigation.

In her cybersecurity practice, she works with clients in all industries to minimize the risk of privacy and data security breaches and assists with all aspects of privacy and security compliance, governance, audits/investigations, enforcement actions, breach analyses, training, and strategic planning.

She has a thorough understanding of federal and state privacy and data security laws and served as a health care privacy expert witness. Jen is a frequent presenter on cybersecurity and privacy topics.

Within the constantly evolving health care legal landscape, she provides guidance to clients across the health care industry about how to comply with the federal and state anti-kickback laws, the Stark law, the HIPAA regulations, Medicare/Medicaid rules and regulations, the Affordable Care Act, FDA and ADA regulations, telemedicine, and other laws, rules and regulations impacting their businesses.

Drawing upon her health care litigation and compliance background, Jen also has an active investigations practice. She conducts health care due diligence, compliance audits and investigations for clients nationwide, and represents them when they are under investigation by federal and state authorities for health care fraud and abuse, HIPAA breaches, and other regulatory non-compliance.

Education :

• University of Akron School of Law  (J.D., cum laude, 1998)
• Miami University  (B.A., 1995)

Bar Admissions : Ohio, Kentucky

Court Admissions :

• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Memberships :

• Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Adjunct professor of Health Law & Policy
• American Bar Association
  • Health Law Section
  • Vice chair, eHealth Privacy & Security
• Association of Defense Trial Attorneys
  • Ohio State chair
  • Membership vice chair
• LifeCenter Organ Donor Network, Board of Directors
• United Way WINGs and Roebling Society
• American Health Lawyers Association