Senior Counsel

Who you are

• JD degree
• 7+ years of corporate work experience
• Transactional healthcare background with an in-house legal department for a healthcare company or law firm in a healthcare practice area
• Excellent multitasking and prioritization skills with a proven ability to manage multiple contract negotiations and provider agreements in parallel
• Prior experience in an externally facing capacity
• Radical candor and comfortability working within an often ambiguous, high growth environment
• Exceptional management, mentorship, and communication skills that are conducive to an environment where issues are identified and resolved
• Mission driven to serve in an organization dedicated to bringing novel care delivery models to underserved populations

What the job involves

• We are seeking a deeply thoughtful, hardworking, emotionally intelligent, organized, and pragmatic attorney who is excited to serve as Cityblock’s corporate counsel partnering with the Commercial team on all health plan partner related work
• This role will play an integral role in helping to drive Cityblock’s performance by building, optimizing, and transforming our market growth through contracts and will report into the General Counsel
• Support Cityblock’s Commercial teams in a wide variety of strategic, risk-based alliances and business development activities across all Cityblock markets
• Proactively identify problems within the assignment and adjacent functions and drive to positive and impactful solutions
• Manage large-scale deliverables with little or no oversight
• Manage multiple functional areas, each as more fully outlined below:
• Lead drafting, editing, and negotiating all revenue generating (and related) agreements with payor partners (including but not limited to LOIs; Definitive Agreements; BAAs; etc)
• Assist the Commercial teams to advance short-term and long-term best practices for value-based and fee-for-service contracting, including governing terms, reimbursement rates and structures, reporting, and contract template structure
• Provide assistance in navigating structural and regulatory considerations, such as: multi-state organizational licensure (such as IPAs and ACOs); multistate utilization review licensure and certification needs; compliance implications of increased clinical and financial integration models, privacy and security, and data sharing and reporting; and the applicability of the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute, civil monetary penalty laws, and corporate practice of medicine doctrines
• Serve as a critical and a collaborative thought partner with the Commercial team and the broader leadership team by translating complex legal topics into relevant, insightful explanations that inform strategic and operational decisions
• Represent Cityblock externally during negotiations with health plan partners
• Take learnings from past negotiations to continually improve our contracts and negotiating strategy
• Work collaboratively with the commercial to advise on strategic partnership issues and answer legal questions that arise during the course of our relationships
• Design contract extractions for partnership and business teams so folks across the organization can easily operationalize the contracts
• Partner with Network team to draft and negotiate contracts that support our Network strategy
• Design contract extractions for network and business teams so folks across the organization can easily operationalize the contracts
• Continually hone our processes to maximize efficiency and capture learnings to speed up deal cycles and promote high customer satisfaction and appropriate oversight of network partnerships
• Establish excellent rapport and working relationships with colleagues in order to encourage and continue the proactive use of in-house legal counsel

Benefits

• Employee connectedness - Time to retreat and connect with teammates to shape our culture and set goals together
• Great health insurance - Comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families, including 12 free therapy or psychiatry sessions per year
• Financial savings - 401(k), HSA, FSA, and Commuter benefits to support you now and for the future
• Paid time off - Up to 9 weeks of paid time off, including vacation, sick & safe time, and holidays
• Parental leave - Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents, and a flexible work culture for everyone, including parents
• Learning and development - Access to LinkedIn Learning and weekly professional development classes, with reimbursement for clinical CEUs