Associate General Counsel

Associate General Counsel - REMOTE

Role and Responsibilities

The Associate General Counsel is responsible for assisting the General Counsel & Compliance Officer with corporate strategic and tactical legal initiatives in the employee benefits industry. The Associate General Counsel assists the General Counsel & Compliance Officer with providing guidance to senior management and with managing the legal function in general. The Associate General Counsel is directly involved with complex business transactions in negotiating critical contracts in coordination with the General Counsel & Compliance Officer. The Associate General Counsel is also responsible for assisting the General Counsel & Compliance Officer with ongoing activities related to the development, implementation, maintenance, and adherence to the organization’s policies and procedures covering the privacy, access, and patient health information in compliance with federal and state laws and the healthcare organization’s information privacy practices.

- Participates in the definition and development of corporate policies, procedures and programs and provides continuing counsel and guidance on legal matters and on legal implications of all matters.

- Drafts various contracts and amendments based on templates provided by the General Counsel & Compliance Officer as necessary for ongoing business operations.

- Assists General Counsel & Compliance Officer with creating new contracts and templates for new business arrangements, programs, and offerings.

- Assists General Counsel & Compliance Officer with addressing requested contract edits to all types of healthcare related contracts, including non-disclosure agreements, services agreements and data exchange agreements (e.g. Business Associate Agreements, Data Transfer & Confidentiality Agreements, etc.)

- Assists legal/compliance team with ensuring that the company conducts its business in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including licensing of all operating entities and state and federal reporting requirements.

- Works with Legal and Compliance Assistant to ensure all necessary contracts are prepared and sent to clients and to ensure such contracts are returned fully executed timely.

- Manages and tracks regulatory matters affecting the organization.

- Educates staff on regulatory matters and legislative changes and assists in creating client communications regarding state and federal regulation and legislation.

- Assists with drafting settlement agreements and negotiating settlement matters.

- Corresponds with administrative and regulatory bodies and appears on the organization’s behalf during administrative proceedings, as applicable.

- Works with the legal/compliance team with various types of internal and external audits, including the annual SOC audits.

- Assists General Counsel & Compliance Officer with responding to and assessing how to handle any reported HIPAA violations, and with preparing and archiving the necessary documentation thereof.

- Works with legal/compliance team, key departments, and committees to ensure that the organization has and maintains appropriate privacy and confidentiality consent, authorization forms, and information notices and materials reflecting current organization and legal practices and requirements.

- Oversees, directs, delivers, or ensures delivery of initial and privacy training and orientation to all employees, volunteers, medical and professional staff, contractors, alliances, business associates, and other appropriate third parties.

- Participates in the development, implementation, and ongoing compliance monitoring of all trading partner and business associate agreements to ensure all privacy concerns, requirements, and responsibilities are addressed.

- Establishes with management and operations a mechanism to track access to protected health information as required by law and to allow qualified individuals to review or receive a report on such a