Chief Legal Officer

Description

MEDvidi is a telepsychiatry platform delivering psychiatric evaluation, medication management, and ongoing behavioral health care to patients in approximately 35 states. We operate through a management services organization supporting affiliated professional corporations, and our clinicians treat conditions that require careful, closely governed prescribing, including controlled substances.

The work is regulated at every layer: federal controlled-substance law, state medical practice and scope-of-practice rules, health information privacy, consumer-protection and advertising rules, and payer requirements. Getting that right is not an overlay on the business. It is the business.
About the Role

We are hiring a Chief Legal Officer to own legal and regulatory strategy for the company. This is a hands-on executive role. You will be the senior legal voice on prescribing architecture, entity structure, privacy, marketing, litigation, and workforce questions, and you will do much of that work yourself while building the function around you.

The role is scoped as Chief Legal Officer only. The Chief Compliance Officer function is separately designated, so that legal strategy and compliance reporting remain distinct. We have chosen that structure deliberately, consistent with OIG and DOJ guidance on compliance program design.
Responsibilities

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Controlled substances. Own the company's legal position on telemedicine prescribing under the Controlled Substances Act and the Ryan Haight Act; track DEA registration and rulemaking developments and state PDMP and examination requirements; and carry any agency inquiry or inspection.

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Clinical practice regulation. Advise on fifty-state scope-of-practice, supervision, and collaborative practice requirements; clear licensure for new state markets; and set telehealth modality and consent rules.

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Corporate structure. Draft and negotiate management services agreements, IP licenses, equity restriction and succession arrangements, and intercompany terms across the MSO and professional entities, with continuous attention to corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting boundaries.

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Fraud and abuse. Structure clinician, vendor, and partner arrangements under the Anti-Kickback Statute, EKRA, and Stark where applicable.

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Privacy and security. Apply the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules to live systems and vendors, and advise on state health privacy statutes, business associate terms, and tracking-technology and data-residency questions.

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Marketing and consumer protection. Advise Marketing on advertising substantiation, endorsement and testimonial rules, and unfair-or-deceptive-practice standards under the FTC Act; negative-option and auto-renewal requirements; TCPA consent, timing, and revocation for SMS and outbound messaging; state medical board advertising rules for telehealth prescribing; and HIPAA constraints on tracking technologies, pixels, and campaign data.

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AI and clinical product. Determine whether AI-enabled features constitute a regulated device (Software as a Medical Device) or fall within clinical decision support or general-wellness categories; build a defensible position under the state-by-state framework governing AI in mental-health care, including disclosure, crisis-response, and licensed-clinician-oversight requirements; and advise on AI's intersection with HIPAA, Section 1557 algorithmic nondiscrimination, and the federal FDA, FTC, and HHS framework.

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Litigation and disputes. Set litigation strategy, select and manage outside counsel and budget, direct litigation holds, and tender insurance.

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Workforce. Advise on clinician classification, multi-state employment compliance, separations and investigations, and executive and equity agreements.

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Commercial and payer. Negotiate payer participation agreements and vendor contracts, own the contract playbook, and oversee billing and coding compliance.

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