General Counsel

Healthcare | Precision Medicine | Oncology | Telemedicine | Corporate Growth

ENVITA | Full-Time | On-Site | Scottsdale, Arizona

The Opportunity

The General Counsel serves as the organization's senior legal authority and strategic legal advisor.

This role is intentionally weighted approximately 60% healthcare regulatory, compliance, provider, and medical legal matters and 40% corporate, tax, governance, transactional, and commercial legal matters.

The successful candidate will operate as both a healthcare regulatory expert and a strategic business advisor capable of balancing innovation, growth, compliance, and organizational objectives.

Beyond managing legal risk, this leader will help enable organizational growth by supporting the legal infrastructure required for telemedicine expansion, new healthcare verticals, strategic partnerships, acquisitions, physician relationships, diagnostics, and precision medicine initiatives.

This individual will work directly with executive leadership and serve as a trusted advisor on legal, regulatory, compliance, operational, and strategic matters affecting the organization.

What Success Looks Like

Timeframe

Strategic Focus

Success Measures

First 6 Months

Establish executive partnership and legal infrastructure. Build trusted relationships with executive leadership, physicians, and operational leaders. Conduct a comprehensive assessment of legal, regulatory, compliance, governance, telemedicine, and risk management exposure.

Enterprise legal assessment completed. Executive legal roadmap delivered. Priority legal initiatives identified and launched. Trusted advisor relationships established.

Within 12 Months

Strengthen compliance and enable growth. Improve contract review, contract management, healthcare compliance infrastructure, provider agreement structures, governance, and risk management practices. Support telemedicine growth and strategic initiatives.

Improved compliance readiness. Reduced legal exposure. Improved contract turnaround times. Successful support of key growth initiatives.

Within 24 Months

Become a strategic architect of organizational growth. Support acquisitions, strategic partnerships, telemedicine and multi-state expansion, new vertical launches, scalable legal infrastructure, and long-term sustainable growth.

Successful support of transformational growth initiatives. Strong regulatory standing. Scalable legal infrastructure aligned with growth strategy. Recognized executive leadership partner.

Key Performance Objectives

1. Strengthen Enterprise Legal and Compliance Infrastructure
2. Provide Executive Legal Leadership and Strategic Counsel
3. Support Telemedicine Expansion and New Vertical Growth
4. Strengthen Provider, Physician, and Regulatory Compliance Programs
5. Enable Strategic Partnerships, Acquisitions, and Corporate Growth
6. Protect the Organization Through Enterprise Risk Management

Key Responsibilities

Healthcare Legal & Regulatory Leadership (60%)

Healthcare Compliance & Regulatory Counsel

Serve as the organization's primary legal advisor regarding healthcare regulatory compliance.

Provide guidance on:

• HIPAA and HITECH
• Stark Law
• Federal and State Anti-Kickback Statutes
• False Claims Act
• Medicare and Medicaid regulations
• Corporate Practice of Medicine laws
• Telemedicine regulations
• Multi-state healthcare delivery regulations
• Laboratory and diagnostic testing regulations
• Privacy and data security laws
• State healthcare licensing requirements
• FDA and FTC-related healthcare advertising considerations

Medical Board & Professional Licensing Matters

Lead responses to:

• State Medical Board inquiries
• Professional licensing investigations
• Administrative actions
• Physician disciplinary matters
• Credentialing and privileging disputes

Advise physicians, providers, and executives regarding professional liability exposure and regulatory obligations.

Patient Complaints & Risk Management

• Review and respond to significant patient complaints and legal escalations.
• Assess malpractice exposure and coordinate defense strategies with outside counsel when necessary.
• Advise leadership on patient safety, documentation, informed consent, and risk mitigation practices.

Compliance Program Oversight

• Develop, strengthen, and maintain healthcare compliance programs.
• Conduct internal legal reviews and investigations.
• Provide training to physicians, executives, and staff regarding healthcare regulatory requirements.
• Monitor regulatory changes affecting healthcare operations.

Healthcare Transactions & Provider Relationships

• Structure physician arrangements and compensation models.
• Review management agreements, employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, and referral relationships for regulatory compliance.
• Conduct healthcare-specific legal due diligence for acquisitions, partnerships, and strategic initiatives.

Telemedicine & Digital Health Expansion

• Advise on telemedicine regulations, multi-state licensure considerations, virtual care delivery models, and related compliance obligations.
• Support legal infrastructure for telemedicine growth, remote patient engagement, privacy, data security, and healthcare delivery across jurisdictions.
• Help leadership evaluate regulatory risk and operational requirements associated with digital health and telemedicine expansion.

Corporate, Tax & Commercial Legal Leadership (40%)

Corporate Governance

• Advise executive leadership and ownership on legal risks and strategic decisions.
• Support board governance, corporate records, resolutions, and organizational structure.
• Manage legal aspects of corporate growth initiatives.

Contract Negotiation & Commercial Transactions

Draft, review, negotiate, and redline:

• Vendor agreements
• Service agreements
• Strategic partnership agreements
• Licensing agreements
• Employment agreements
• Real estate and lease agreements
• Technology and software contracts
• Business development transactions
• Ensure favorable contractual terms and risk allocation.
• Lead contract negotiations with external parties.

Tax & Entity Structure Support

Advise on legal aspects of corporate tax matters and organizational structuring.

Collaborate with tax advisors, CPAs, and external counsel on:

• Tax-efficient business structures
• Corporate reorganizations
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Asset protection strategies
• Multi-entity governance structures

Identify legal risks associated with tax planning strategies.

Litigation & Risk Management

• Manage outside counsel relationships.
• Oversee litigation strategy and dispute resolution.
• Evaluate legal risks across the organization and recommend proactive solutions.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a seasoned healthcare attorney who can confidently navigate complex healthcare regulations, defend and respond to medical board inquiries, oversee patient-related legal risk, support telemedicine expansion, advise on strategic growth initiatives, and simultaneously function as a trusted executive advisor capable of helping leadership make sound business decisions while maintaining regulatory excellence.

This individual should be comfortable operating as the primary legal authority for a rapidly growing healthcare organization entering a transformational phase of growth and expansion.

Target Candidate Backgrounds

Strong consideration will be given to candidates with experience supporting:

• Oncology organizations
• Specialty healthcare organizations
• Precision medicine organizations
• Diagnostic laboratories
• Telemedicine organizations
• Digital health companies
• Multi-state healthcare organizations
• Physician practice management organizations
• Integrative or functional medicine organizations
• Complex healthcare enterprises with multiple legal, regulatory, and operational verticals

Target Titles

• General Counsel
• Chief Legal Officer
• Deputy General Counsel
• Associate General Counsel
• Senior Healthcare Counsel
• Vice President, Legal Affairs
• Healthcare Regulatory Counsel
• Healthcare Compliance Counsel with executive advisory experience

Qualifications

Required

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school.
• Active membership in at least one U.S. State Bar in good standing.
• Minimum 7 years of healthcare law experience, with significant experience advising healthcare organizations, physician groups, hospitals, laboratories, specialty clinics, telemedicine organizations, or other healthcare entities.
• Demonstrated expertise in HIPAA/HITECH, Stark Law, Federal and State Anti-Kickback Statutes, healthcare compliance programs, Medical Board matters, profe