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Posted: 20-May-22
Location: Oakland, California
Type: Full Time
Preferred Education: Doctorate
Salary: Commensurate with experience.
Company:
The work you will do at Kaiser Permanente is essential, empowering and evolving.
Essential - You will be supporting our unwavering commitment to providing high-quality care to our members (all 12.5 million of them) and the communities we service. This is your opportunity to join one of the nation's largest not-for-profit integrated health care organizations.
Empowering - By working at Kaiser Permanente you will be joining a diverse, dynamic, and enthusiastic team.
Each of us—from our financial professionals and IT team members to our clinicians on the front line of care—collaborate to provide the best possible care experience to our members.
Evolving - We offer the opportunity to build and advance a rewarding career in an environment that supports your success. You will be a critical partner and be asked to bring to the table your deep legal expertise and provide innovative ideas. Join us and put your beliefs into practice.
Descriptions: The position will either be a Counsel III (7 – 12 years’ experience) or a Senior Counsel (12+ years’ experience). The position provides counsel to Kaiser Permanente hospitals and health care providers regarding regulatory and operational matters. This is an opportunity to have a broad care delivery regulatory practice, supporting Kaiser Permanente’s operations as a non-profit integrated delivery system, including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, clinics, home health, hospice, ancillary services, and pharmacies, in California and the eight other jurisdictions where Kaiser Permanente operates. As a Senior Counsel, you will manage outside counsel relationships as assigned for given legal matters pertaining to Provider Operations and engage in customary interactions with State and Federal regulators. In this role you will partner with other members of the Provider Operations Group, the VP & Assistant General Counsel, Provider Operations and members of the Practice Management Team, members of other Legal Department Practice Groups, Hospital and Health Plan Senior Leadership, and other healthcare providers. The position will also work closely with other Legal Department practice group members.
Relocation: Yes
Compensation: Commensurate with experience.
Principal Responsibilities:
- Advise Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan leadership on legal issues affecting care delivery operations and strategic initiatives, with an emphasis on regulatory, compliance, and patient care matters.
- Serve as Provider Operations assignee to several California hospitals and other Kaiser Permanente markets regarding a range of regulatory and operational matters, such as state licensing, Medicare Conditions of Participation, accreditation standards, risk management, patient consent and decision-making, medical staff, credentialing and health plan/hospital quality oversight obligations, scope of practice, bioethics, and privacy and privacy and security (including mental health and chemical dependency providers), medical device/ pharmacy regulation, EMTALA and Medicare/Medicaid rules impacting providers, including the Medicare conditions of participation.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on specialized aspects of provider regulatory issues as assigned.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and resource for advocacy of Kaiser Permanente policy positions furthering Kaiser Permanente’s mission.
Basic Qualifications:
- A minimum of seven (7) years of experience of experience of general health care law experience, including a minimum of 5 years of provider regulatory experience.
- Working knowledge of hospital operations and physician practice matters and regulatory issues.
- Experience providing interpretation and analysis of statutes, regulations and hospital and physician practice standards, processes, and procedures.
- Superior writing and analytical skills.
- Solid work ethic, excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal), and sharp analytical skills.
- California bar license or willingness to become a California Registered In-House Counsel.
- Demonstrated qualities consistent with the Department’s preferred operating style, i.e., mutual respect, fairness, honesty, ethical behavior, independent, creative thinking while operating as a team member.
- JD required.
- Excellent academic and professional qualifications.
- Excellent references.
