Meet Irma Jacobson

Irma Jacobson founded Jacobson PLLC to give healthcare providers and organizations strategic, practical counsel—grounded in regulatory depth, commercial judgment, and a steady hand when stakes are high.

Based in Austin and fluent in Spanish, she advises nursing and assisted living facilities, home health and hospice agencies, physicians, and related providers on licensing, surveys and enforcement, transactions, contracting, risk management, and employment matters—before agencies including the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Representative experience

  • Regulatory, licensing, and enforcement matters for long-term care, home health, hospice, and physician clients
  • Quality Incentive Payment Program participation for nursing facilities
  • Purchase, sale, and transition of healthcare businesses and related assets
  • Entity formation, contract negotiation, and ongoing compliance programs
  • Proceedings before the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Departmental Appeals Board
  • Matters before the State Office of Administrative Hearings and Texas state courts

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Education

  • United States Military Academy at West Point
    B.S., Civil Engineering
  • University of Houston Law Center
    J.D.

Bar admissions

  • State Bar of Texas, 2013
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas

Professional associations

  • Austin Bar Association
  • College of the State Bar of Texas
  • Texas Health Care Association
  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • State Bar of Texas

Community & languages

Community service

  • Austin Stone
  • Reveal Ministries

Languages: English and Spanish (fluent)

How we can help

Practical counsel across regulatory compliance, transactions, enforcement, and workforce matters—for providers who need answers they can act on.

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