Contract Attorney

RevSpring; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

RevSpring seeks an experienced Contract Attorney to support and accelerate our commercial contracting function. This role drafts, reviews, and negotiates a wide range of sales-related agreements for healthcare technology and RCM solutions, providing legal support to Sales, Finance, Compliance, and Operations.

You will help balance legal risk with business objectives while ensuring HIPAA, data privacy, and healthcare regulations are followed across SaaS and RCM service delivery.

Qualifications

• JD from an accredited law school and active U.S. license.
• 5+ years of legal experience in healthcare, SaaS, or health IT.
• Proven track record drafting and negotiating healthcare-related sales agreements.
• Strong knowledge of HIPAA, data privacy/security, and healthcare compliance.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate a high volume of SaaS, MSA, BAAs, NDAs, and data security addenda.
• Support Sales, Finance, Compliance, and Operations on healthcare and RCM deals.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA/HITECH, TCPA, FDCPA, and state privacy laws.
• Advise on contract structure, terms, risks, and negotiation strategy.
• Collaborate with Compliance, InfoSec, Product, Finance, and Ops on data usage and SLAs.
• Maintain templates, playbooks, and clause libraries for Healthcare SaaS/RCM.

Skills

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Regulatory compliance

Legal research

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Active U.S. license to practice law

Tools

Apttus CLM

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced

Job Title: Contract Attorney

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Contract Attorney to support and accelerate our commercial contracting function. This role is responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of sales-related agreements specific to healthcare technology and RCM solutions. The attorney will provide legal support to Sales, Finance, Compliance, and Operations, ensuring all agreements balance legal risk with business objectives while maintaining compliance with healthcare and data privacy regulations.
This role is ideal for an attorney who thrives at the intersection of healthcare delivery, revenue cycle operations, and SaaS technology. You will provide legal support on deals that help advance revenue goals, contracting efficiency, and organizational protection within a complex regulatory landscape.

Essential Functions

• Draft, review, and negotiate a high volume of commercial agreements including SaaS agreements, MSAs, licensing agreements, Business Associate Agreements (BAAs), RCM services agreements, statements of work, NDAs, amendments, data security addendums, and other revenue-generating contracts.
• Provide legal support to the Sales and Sales Operations teams on deals across healthcare providers, payers, revenue cycle organizations, and enterprise health systems.
• Ensure all agreements are compliant with HIPAA/HITECH, TCPA and FDCPA, healthcare regulatory frameworks, state-specific privacy laws, and standards applicable to both SaaS and RCM service delivery.
• Advise on contract structure, terms, risks, and negotiation strategy to drive timely deal closure and support revenue growth.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Compliance, InfoSec, Product, Finance, and Operations to validate terms related to data usage, PHI handling, service delivery, performance obligations, SLAs, and pricing.
• Support RFP/RFI processes by reviewing legal, compliance, data privacy, and security requirements related to healthcare and RCM operations.
• Maintain contract templates, playbooks, fallback positions, clause libraries, and negotiation guidelines tailored to Healthcare SaaS and RCM services.
• Conduct legal research related to healthcare regulations, RCM compliance, telehealth, data privacy, and emerging SaaS policies impacting commercial agreements.
• Recommend and implement continuous improvements in contracting workflows to reduce cycle times and enhance efficiency.
• Provide training and practical guidance to internal teams on contracting protocols, healthcare compliance, and regulatory obligations related to PHI, SaaS deployment, and RCM operations.
  

Minimum Requirements

Specific Job Skills

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school; active license to practice law in the U.S.
• 5+ years of legal experience with substantial work in healthcare, revenue cycle management, SaaS, or health IT.
• Proven track record drafting and negotiating sales agreements in a healthcare technology or RCM services environment.
• Strong understanding of HIPAA, data privacy/security regulations (including PHI handling), and healthcare compliance frameworks.
• Experience working directly with Sales teams and supporting enterprise-level contracting cycles.
• Ability to translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable business guidance.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and issue-spotting skills.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• In-house legal experience supporting healthcare SaaS or RCM services contracts.
• Experience negotiating enterprise SaaS terms such as SLAs, uptime, data retention, security obligations, and integration requirements.
• Familiarity with provider and payer environments, including eligibility, authorizations, claims, billing workflows, and revenue cycle operations.
• Experience with contract lifecycle management (CLM) systems (e.g., Apttus CLM (Salesforce)).
  

Education: Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school; active license to practice law in the U.S.

Experience: 5+ years of experience

Supervision: N/A

Certifications: N/A

Language Skills Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from a variety of both internal and external sources.

Physical Capabilities: Standard categories

The physical capabilities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

RevSpring is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Note: This Job Description may not describe all of the job responsibilities and standards assigned to this position. The duties may change from time to time. RevSpring does not discriminate against any group in hiring or employment practices. Nothing in this job description constitutes a contract for employment.