Parker Hudson Attorneys Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America 2025 Edition
Aug 15, 2024
jameson b. bilsborrow
Associate
Atlanta
Overview
Jay Bilsborrow is an associate in the firm's Healthcare practice group. He represents clients in a range of civil, administrative, and appellate litigation matters, with particular experience in commercial litigation, False Claims Act litigation, certificate of need litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and motions and appeals practice generally. Jay also advises healthcare providers on various regulatory and compliance issues, including fraud and abuse and Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement. A former track & field All American and having graduated at the top of his law school class, Jay brings an in-it-to-win-it attitude to any matter a client asks him to run with.
Jay works with hospitals, healthcare systems, physicians, and other individuals in the healthcare industry. Including prior experience in the Solicitor General's Unit of Georgia's Attorney General's Office, Jay has handled numerous and diverse high-priority litigation matters before the U.S. and Georgia Supreme Courts, federal and state trial and appellate courts, and state administrative agencies. With his breadth of experience before various tribunals and decisionmakers, Jay knows how to optimally position his clients for the best chance to prevail.
experience
- Obtained favorable unanimous Georgia Supreme Court decision on behalf of a major Georgia health system in a highly contested certificate of need matter establishing the standard of review in CON administrative proceedings. The decision led to the vacatur and remand of multiple Court of Appeals decisions in a number of cases, and also illustrates and informs the Georgia appellate courts’ methods of statutory interpretation.
- Obtained complete victory in the Georgia Court of Appeals in a long-running action by a physician and his physician practice against a Georgia hospital, which sought to compel it to comply with his preferred interpretation of certain of its inpatient-admission operating procedures so as to maximize patient referrals to his own practice. In rejecting the plaintiff’s efforts to expand a lesser-known, Georgia-specific tort doctrine, the Court reaffirmed that hospitals have broad power to control the administrative, operational, and managerial functions of their facilities and staff. The decision marks an important win for hospitals and health systems in the landscape of physician-hospital disputes involving challenges to hospitals' administrative authority.
- Obtained favorable ruling from a federal district court denying a whistleblower’s three-year effort to expand the scope of his federal False Claims Act action against a national physician staffing company from a Georgia-specific action to encompass all of the healthcare provider’s facilities nationwide, thus greatly limiting the provider’s financial exposure. In route, through lengthy motions practice, the Parker Hudson team successfully persuaded the court to reverse multiple of its own orders that were adverse to the provider. Trial court proceedings remain ongoing.
- Assisted the Parker Hudson team in obtaining a favorable unanimous Georgia Supreme Court decision on behalf of a major Georgia health system in a highly contested certificate of need matter establishing the constitutionally-protected status of certain certificate of need rights. The arguments and decision turned on, and further clarified, Georgia’s expanding body of private-versus-public rights analysis. This important distinction controls whether state action can impair a right, and is thus critical for any party challenging a newly-enacted law or regulation under the State constitution.
- Secured a landmark $300,000 settlement in a three-year tenant rights case, representing a pro bono client who endured wrongful eviction and retaliation from his landlord. This is one of the largest settlements in the history of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation (AVLF). The Parker Hudson team successfully asserted claims for unsafe living conditions, landlord retaliation, and wrongful eviction, resulting in life-changing relief for our client.
- Obtained dismissal of a consumer class action against a major Georgia health system challenging fee components of bills for hospital emergency department services. Secured dismissal despite the generous pleading standard in state court. Given the decisiveness of the trial court’s dismissal order, the plaintiff—represented by out-of-state class counsel pursuing similar class actions in multiple states—decided to forgo appealing the decision entirely.
- Obtained favorable hearing officer decision in 2-week-long certificate of need evidentiary hearing consisting almost entirely of expert opinion testimony on health planning and medical care issues. After the Commissioner of the Department of Community Health reversed the hearing officer’s decision, the Parker Hudson team successfully challenged that agency action in superior court, which restored the outcome reached by the hearing officer.
- Obtained favorable summary judgment order in Federal False Claims Act retaliation action brought by former employee against a major Georgia health system in federal district court. Although the court permitted a limited breach-of-contract claim to proceed, the Parker Hudson team’s efforts successfully limited the vast majority of the healthcare provider’s financial exposure.
- Successfully limited the scope of a vast, multi-theory federal False Claims Act action brought by a former chief compliance officer against a durable medical equipment company in federal district court. Additionally, successfully defeated plaintiff-relator’s efforts to dismiss healthcare provider’s counterclaims. Proceedings remain ongoing.
- Obtained a favorable settlement with the Georgia Department of Community Health on behalf of a physician-owned ambulatory surgery center in a dispute over an alleged multi-year indigent and charity care shortfall by the center. Worked with Department representatives to identify reporting errors, rather than any failure to deliver uncompensated care, as the cause of the apparent shortfall, thus avoiding substantial monetary penalties.
Areas of focus
- Administrative Litigation
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate Litigation
- Commercial Disputes
- Healthcare
- Healthcare Litigation
- Healthcare Regulatory, Reimbursement & Compliance
Education
- Emory University School of Law (J.D., with High Honors, First Honor Graduate, 2015); Order of the Coif
- The College of William and Mary (B.A., summa cum laude, 2011)
Accolades
- Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch for Health Care Law (2023-2025), Administrative/Regulatory Law (2024-2025), and Criminal Defense: White-Collar (2023-2025)
- Myron Penn Laughlin Award for Excellence in Legal Research and Writing: awarded for Emory Law Journal student note, available at 64 Emory L.J. 819
- Paul Bryan Prize in Constitutional Law: Emory Law graduation honor
- Five-time Emory Law Dean's Award recipient: for highest grade in course
Professional Affiliations
- Member, American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA)
Admitted to practice
- Georgia
- Virginia
Clerkship
- The Honorable Frank Mays Hull, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- The Honorable Samuel H. Mays, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee