Assistant General Counsel

Mayfield Brain & Spine; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Mayfield Brain & Spine in Cincinnati, OH seeks an experienced healthcare attorney to join as Assistant General Counsel. This hands-on role delivers legal and regulatory guidance to executives, physicians, and operations, shaping strategy and responsible growth.

You will oversee HIPAA, Stark Law, Anti-Kickback, False Claims Act compliance, and enterprise risk, while serving as Compliance Officer and liaison with outside counsel. In-house healthcare experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
• Active license to practice law in Ohio.
• Seven to ten years of progressively responsible legal experience.
• Significant experience advising healthcare organizations, physician practices, health systems, MSOs, ambulatory care providers, or similar healthcare entities.
• Experience negotiating complex healthcare and commercial agreements.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare regulatory requirements, including HIPAA, Stark Law, and the Anti-Kickback Statute.
• Sound business judgment and the ability to provide clear, practical, risk-based legal advice.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, and executive presence.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with physicians, executives, and operational leaders.

Responsibilities

• Advise executive leadership, physicians, and operational leaders on legal, regulatory, and business matters.
• Support mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, new service lines, and other growth initiatives.
• Draft and negotiate physician employment agreements, professional services agreements, hospital and health system agreements, payer contracts, vendor agreements, technology contracts, and other complex commercial arrangements.
• Serve as Mayfield’s Compliance Officer, overseeing compliance programs, monitoring, investigations, and remediation.
• Provide guidance on HIPAA, Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare requirements.
• Advise on physician and advanced practice provider arrangements, compensation models, fair market value, and commercial reasonableness.
• Counsel the organization on privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data governance, telehealth, and digital health matters.
• Partner with Human Resources on workplace investigations, employment agreements, leave and accommodation matters, wage and hour compliance, discipline, and terminations.
• Support corporate governance, board and committee activities, and affiliated legal entities.
• Manage litigation, regulatory inquiries, audits, subpoenas, disputes, and outside counsel relationships.
• Provide practical legal and compliance education to leaders, physicians, managers, and employees.

Skills

Executive presence

Communication

Relationship-building

Collaboration

Education

Juris Doctor degree

Active Ohio law license

Job description

Join a Leading Physician-Led Healthcare Organization

Mayfield Brain & Spine is seeking an experienced healthcare attorney to join our organization as Assistant General Counsel.

This is a highly visible, hands-on role. You will serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, physicians, and operational teams, helping translate complex legal and regulatory issues into practical solutions that support responsible growth.

The Assistant General Counsel will provide legal guidance across healthcare regulation, compliance, contracting, employment, governance, transactions, privacy, cybersecurity, and enterprise risk. The position will also serve as Mayfield’s Compliance Officer and primary liaison with outside counsel.

What You’ll Do

• Advise executive leadership, physicians, and operational leaders on legal, regulatory, and business matters.
• Support mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, new service lines, and other growth initiatives.
• Draft and negotiate physician employment agreements, professional services agreements, hospital and health system agreements, payer contracts, vendor agreements, technology contracts, and other complex commercial arrangements.
• Serve as Mayfield’s Compliance Officer, overseeing compliance programs, monitoring, investigations, and remediation.
• Provide guidance on HIPAA, Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare requirements.
• Advise on physician and advanced practice provider arrangements, compensation models, fair market value, and commercial reasonableness.
• Counsel the organization on privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data governance, telehealth, and digital health matters.
• Partner with Human Resources on workplace investigations, employment agreements, leave and accommodation matters, wage and hour compliance, discipline, and terminations.
• Support corporate governance, board and committee activities, and affiliated legal entities.
• Manage litigation, regulatory inquiries, audits, subpoenas, disputes, and outside counsel relationships.
• Provide practical legal and compliance education to leaders, physicians, managers, and employees.

Required Qualifications

What We’re Looking For

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
• Active license to practice law in Ohio.
• Seven to ten years of progressively responsible legal experience.
• Significant experience advising healthcare organizations, physician practices, health systems, management services organizations, ambulatory care providers, or similar healthcare entities.
• Experience negotiating complex healthcare and commercial agreements.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare regulatory requirements, including HIPAA, Stark Law, and the Anti-Kickback Statute.
• Sound business judgment and the ability to provide clear, practical, risk-based legal advice.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, and executive presence.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with physicians, executives, and operational leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Kentucky licensure or the ability to obtain it.
• In-house healthcare legal experience.
• Experience serving as a Compliance Officer or supporting an enterprise compliance program.
• Experience with healthcare transactions, physician affiliations, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships.
• Familiarity with physician compensation, fair market value, and commercial reasonableness.
• Experience advising on privacy, cybersecurity, data governance, artificial intelligence, or digital health.
• Experience supporting boards of directors and corporate governance functions.

Why Join Mayfield?

Mayfield Brain & Spine is a nationally recognized neurosurgical practice grounded in clinical excellence, independence, innovation, and physician leadership.

This Opportunity Offers

• Direct exposure to executive and board-level decision-making.
• Meaningful influence on organizational strategy, governance, and growth.
• The opportunity to help shape and scale a physician-led healthcare enterprise.
• Broad involvement across legal, compliance, operational, and strategic matters.
• A collaborative environment that values sound judgment, credibility, and practical problem-solving.

If you are an experienced healthcare attorney who wants to serve as both legal counsel and a strategic business partner, we invite you to apply.

Mayfield Brain & Spine is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law.

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