Jerry Seelig

Dr. Jerry Seelig established and is president of Seelig+Cussigh HCO LLC (S+C) in Culver City, Calif., which provides consulting services to health care providers and governmental agencies. In May 2019, he was appointed patient care ombudsman (PCO) for LifeCare Health Partners, an operator of 17 long-term acute-care hospitals based in Plano, Texas,; he has been appointed PCO in 26 cases and as consumer privacy ombudsman in six health care cases. Dr. Seelig has been employed as medical records custodian on multiple occasions, and over the past six years the firm has completed medical records projects involving approximately 100,00 patients. He was appointed as a monitor by the LA City District Attorney’s Office to provide oversight to a skilled nursing facility and to ensure that the facility corrects multiple deficiencies in resident care and ends its program of dumping homeless residents. Dr. Seelig serves as a consultant to the CEO of LA Care for both the Verity bankruptcy and to develop programs and resources for skilled nursing, congregant care,custodial care and other community-based programs. He is a member of the Central District of California Bankruptcy Court Mediator Panel and has appeared on multiple state and local bar association panels and continuing education programs. Dr. Seelig has been interviewed on NPR, in the Wall Street Journal and in a wide range of local newspapers and specialty publications. He has published articles in the ABI Journal and in Riverside Lawyer Magazine, Payers and Providers and FierceHealth Finance, and he has published additional articles on the safety net health care system, patient confidential medical information and hospital bankruptcies. Dr. Seelig received his Bachelor’s degree in urban planning from the University of Illinois, Urbana in 1971, his Master’s degree with studies in education, economics and social policy from Harvard University in 1972, and his Ph.D. in social work and public policy at the University of Chicago from 1977-80.