Job Description

Position Summary

Reporting to the Assistant General Counsel and Director, Legal Affairs, Counsel provides legal advice on healthcare regulations, privacy, and commercial transactional matters affecting a large integrated health system. The position serves as a trusted advisor to business and operational leaders, structuring and negotiating a broad range of commercial, clinical, and operational agreements while ensuring compliance with applicable federal and state healthcare laws and privacy requirements.

The role has particular responsibility for advising on healthcare privacy, data governance, information sharing, interoperability, and regulatory issues arising in connection with commercial transactions, digital health initiatives, and enterprise operations. This position will support technology-related transactions, however, many other files include privacy obligations which need to be addressed.

Essential Responsibilities

Healthcare Regulatory, Privacy & Commercial Transactions

• Structure, draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a broad range of commercial agreements, ensuring compliance with applicable healthcare laws, privacy requirements, and organizational policies.
  
  • Serve as legal counsel on healthcare regulatory and privacy issues (ex: HIPAA, HITECH, the New Jersey Data Privacy Act) arising in connection with commercial transactions, strategic partnerships, clinical initiatives, and operational activities.
  • Advise clients regarding information blocking, interoperability requirements, TEFCA, business associate arrangements, data use agreements, health information exchanges, research collaborations, and other data-sharing arrangements.
  • Counsel business leaders on general contract terms and legal issues involving data governance, data ownership, permitted uses of data, de-identification, secondary use of data, information sharing, and contractual protections for PHI, PII, and other sensitive information.
  • Monitor and interpret evolving federal and state healthcare, privacy, and digital health regulations and provide practical guidance regarding their impact on contracting and operations.
  • Draft, review, negotiate, and interpret a broad range of commercial agreements, including professional services agreements, physician and provider arrangements, purchasing and supply chain contracts, consulting agreements, confidentiality agreements, technology and software agreements, revenue-generating partnerships, and other operational contracts.
  • Support enterprise technology and digital health transactions, including SaaS, cloud services, software licensing, AI-enabled services, and data analytics, with particular emphasis on regulatory compliance, privacy, information governance, and risk allocation.
  • Partner with Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, and business leaders to ensure agreements appropriately address cybersecurity, vendor risk management, incident response, regulatory requirements, and contractual protections for sensitive information.
  • Advise executives and operational leaders regarding contractual rights and obligations, dispute resolution, risk mitigation, and contract interpretation.
  
  Commercial Transactions
  What Sets This Opportunity Apart

This position offers the opportunity to serve as a trusted advisor on healthcare regulatory, privacy, and commercial transactional matters within a leading integrated healthcare system. The role combines sophisticated commercial contracting with complex healthcare regulatory counseling, allowing the successful candidate to advise on strategic initiatives involving privacy, information sharing, digital health, and enterprise operations. As a member of a collaborative in-house legal department, Counsel will work closely with executive leadership, clinical and operational teams, compliance professionals, and business partners to develop practical legal solutions that advance innovation while ensuring regulatory compliance and protecting the organization's mission

Qualifications

The ideal candidate is an experienced attorney with at least ten (10) years of legal experience, including substantial experience advising on healthcare regulatory matters, privacy, and complex commercial transactions in healthcare or another highly regulated industry. Experience in a combination of law firm practice and in-house counsel roles is preferred.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Significant experience negotiating and managing sophisticated commercial transactions, including technology-enabled services, strategic partnerships, and vendor agreements.
  
  • Strong knowledge of healthcare privacy laws and regulations, including HIPAA, HITECH, state privacy laws, business associate requirements, data use agreements, and healthcare information sharing.
  • Experience advising on healthcare regulatory issues that arise in commercial transactions, including fraud and abuse, reimbursement, licensing, corporate governance, and healthcare compliance.
  • Familiarity with the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), healthcare interoperability requirements, information blocking regulations, health information exchanges, and evolving claims on sharing electronic health information.
  • Experience counseling clients on data governance, privacy, cybersecurity, interoperability, and contractual allocation of regulatory and operational risk.
  • Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into practical business advice and contract solutions.
  • Excellent drafting, negotiation, analytical, and communication skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple sophisticated matters independently while collaborating effectively with attorneys, executives, and operational leaders.
    Required Education:
    Juris Doctorate

About the Team

Atlantic Health System is at the forefront of medicine, setting standards for quality health care powered by a workforce of more than 18,000 team members and 4,800 affiliated physicians dedicated to building healthier communities, the system offers more than 400 sites of care, including eight award-winning medical centers. Specializing in cardiovascular care, cancer care, orthopedics, neuroscience, pediatrics, women's health and rehabilitation medicine. Atlantic Medical Group, comprised of 1,000 physicians and advanced practice providers, represents one of the largest multi-specialty practices in New Jersey and includes finance, legal, marketing, human resources, talent acquisition, ISS and more. Caring for our patients, our team members and the communities we serve is our central mission.