Overview
This Director, Assistant General Counsel role provides legal advice and counsel for urgent cares, physician practices, and other facilities/providers in South Carolina and North Carolina. This role supports operations, including physician contracting, advice on compliance and regulatory matters, employment law, and patient care related legal matters. The ideal candidate has a blend of health care regulatory and transactional experience with a special focus on hospital operations.
Job Relationships: Reports to and receives assignments from the VP, Assistant General Counsel. Works closely with growth and transactional leaders with a focus on expanding Novant Health and its related entities’ offerings.
Come join a remarkable team where quality care meets quality service, in every dimension, every time.
At Novant Health, one of our core values is diversity and inclusion. By engaging the strengths and talents of each team member, we ensure a strong organization capable of providing remarkable healthcare to our patients, families and communities. Therefore, we invite applicants from all group dynamics to apply to our exciting career opportunities.
Qualifications
- Education: Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school, required.
- Experience: 7+ years Law experience, preferably in-house healthcare setting or law firm.
- Licensure/Certification: Active license to practice law, in good standing with jurisdiction in which licensed, required.
- Additional Skills (required):
- 7+ years’ experience in the practice of law.
- Significant regulatory healthcare experience, including analysis of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), the Stark Law (Stark), the False Claims Act (FCA), HIPAA, and other federal healthcare regulations.
- Healthcare operational experience, including physician employment, independent physician arrangements.
- Familiarity with federal, North Carolina and South Carolina patient care regulations and employment regulatory framework.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to handle unusual, demanding and unrelated tasks and strong organizational skills.
- Speed to Market: Effectively works in a fast-paced work environment to deliver results.
- Problem Solving: Strong analytical, critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills.
- Judgment: Demonstrated ability to act independently on information and make decisions that achieve optimal results.
- Additional Skills (preferred):
- Experience with physician networks, managed care contracting and employment law.
- Experience with medical clinic operations, particularly urgent cares.
Responsibilities
- Legal support for urgent cares, physician practices and other facilities located in South Carolina and North Carolina.
- Create an environment that supports and respects diversity to promote creative problem solving.
- Respects and follows organizational policy and procedure, including rules of conduct.
- Responsible for helping to achieve goals defined by People & Culture and Novant Health leadership. Constantly monitor progress and metrics toward meeting defined goals.
- Supports growth, development of initiatives, and overall performance of strategy. Demonstrates dedication to meeting the expectations and requirements of stakeholders.
- Work alongside team members to monitor and evolve practices for continuous process improvement.
- Develop policies, practices, procedures and forms that have a significant impact on operations and the organization.
- Provides reliable and well-researched advice on all manner of matters.
- Advises on specific healthcare issues such as Stark, HIPAA, FCA, AKS, and other regulatory matters.
- Reviews and prepares agreements and contracts.
- Maintains professional competency, according to department policies, procedures, and protocols.