Our mission is to deliver high-quality primary care that is accessible, convenient and affordable for all. Every single day you’ll be working on challenging problems with an exceptional team to profoundly transform primary care and improve people’s quality of life.
Your Role and Impact
Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel, you will support the Legal team’s efforts in a wide array of projects and responsibilities, including leading legal support of our clinical operations, physician services, credentialing, employment issues, intellectual property management and a variety of other domains. This includes working cross-functionally with key stakeholders in sales, finance, marketing and product. This role is critical to ensuring the business success of a rapidly-growing healthcare technology start-up.
Responsibilities
- Advise on risks and liabilities of proposed clinic operations, physician liability and commercial transactions and devise creative and practical legal solutions to meet business objectives
- Conduct research, draft internal guidance documents and train company on key issues
- Keep informed of applicable and emerging laws, regulations and industry guidance that impact clinical operations, behavioral health, primary care, pediatrics and associated quality improvement/patient safety program requirements, credentialing, physician practice standards, malpractice and employment-related issues
- Support 98point6 People Operations in employment agreement interpretation, template maintenance, employee handbook and assorted employment issues, including investigations
- Advise company on compliance with Anti-Kickback, Stark Law, fee-splitting laws, the Affordable Care Act and a range of other laws affecting employee benefits, health plans and other potential channels
- Advise company on privacy laws, including HIPAA, CCPA and GDPR where they intersect with projects
- Facilitate intellectual property initiatives with Legal team and outside counsel, and support establishment of best practices to protect intellectual property internally
- Support evaluation of new business opportunities and regulatory implications at federal and state level, including insurance regulations, consumer protection regulations and other issues within the healthcare landscape
Qualifications
- JD and licensed to practice law in at least one state
- 5+ years relevant experience
- 2+ years in-house experience preferred
- Experience working with physicians, physician practice groups and medical support staff preferred
- Experience working with healthcare institutions, insurers or benefits within large employers preferred
98point6 provides equal employment opportunities to all without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information or other protected status.