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Cityblock Health · 4 days ago

Senior Counsel, Commercial

New York, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$153K/yr - $210K/yr

7+ years exp

Cityblock Health is seeking a deeply thoughtful and pragmatic attorney to serve as their corporate counsel, partnering with the Commercial team on health plan partner-related work. This role involves managing strategic alliances, negotiating contracts, and providing legal guidance to support market growth and operational decisions.

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Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

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 Growth 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 partnership and business teams to answer legal questions that arise during the course of our relationships and advise on strategic partnership issues

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

Qualification

JD degreeTransactional backgroundContract negotiationHealthcare experienceMultitasking skillsRadical candorCommunication skillsMentorship skillsEmotional intelligenceOrganizational skills