Healthcare Attorney

Distinct | North America; North Carolina; Remote; USD 135,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Distinct Recruitment is partnering with one of North Carolina’s largest full-service law firms to hire a Health Care Litigation Attorney (Associate or Partner). The role offers remote work from any US state or on-site in Raleigh or Charlotte, NC, with NC bar admission required and a strong focus on Medicare/Medicaid fraud, CIDs, reimbursement, and licensing disputes.

The successful candidate will bring five years or more of health law litigation experience, a JD from an accredited law school,

Qualifications

• Admission to the North Carolina bar. This is required, wherever you live.
• Five years or more of health law litigation.
• A JD from an accredited law school and a strong academic record.
• The ability to explain a reimbursement rule to a clinic owner in plain English, and to a hearing officer in the language they expect.
• Sound judgment and a close eye for detail. In audit work, one date or code can decide the outcome.

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

Health Care Litigation Attorney (Associate or Partner) | Remote, any US state, or Raleigh or Charlotte, NC | $135,000 to $240,000 | Medicare and Medicaid fraud, CIDs, reimbursement, licensing

Most healthcare litigation starts as something small. An audit letter. A records request. A payor that quietly stops paying. The lawyers who win these cases are usually the ones who were there while the problem was still small.

I’m Clark Pollins at Distinct Recruitment, hiring for one of North Carolina’s largest full service law firms. Its health law group has more work coming in than litigators to handle it, so it’s adding one. The firm will consider associate or partner level candidates in Raleigh or Charlotte, or remote from any US state. Wherever you are, you must be barred in North Carolina.

You’re in the room before it’s a lawsuit

• This group also advises providers on reimbursement, licensing, HIPAA, contracts and business formation.
• That means the client calling about an audit often already knows and trusts the team.
• You shape the matter from the first letter. You don’t inherit it at the appeal stage.

What you’ll fight

• Medicare and Medicaid fraud allegations, including False Claims Act matters.
• Civil investigative demands, where the real strategy gets set before anyone files anything.
• Reimbursement disputes, payment suspensions and provider contract terminations. North Carolina’s move to Medicaid managed care means providers now answer to several health plans instead of one payor, and any of them can audit, deny or terminate.
• Government payor audits and the administrative appeals that follow them.
• Professional licensing proceedings, where a clinician’s career can turn on one hearing.

Who you’ll be defending

• Long term care, home health, hospice, behavioral health, primary care and laboratory providers.
• Behind the group is a firm whose wider client list runs from family owned businesses to publicly traded corporations.

Live where your life is

• You can work from Raleigh or Charlotte if you want an office, or remotely from any US state if you don’t.
• You go in when a client or a matter needs you there, not to fill a desk on a Tuesday.
• The one fixed point is the bar. You must be barred in North Carolina, but you don’t need to live here.

Coming over as a partner

• Your book gets a full service platform behind it, with regulatory, transactional and corporate colleagues ready for when your clients need more than a litigator.
• The group already speaks your clients’ language, so referrals can flow in both directions.
• We’ll cover economics properly on the first call.

Coming over as an associate

• The group is hands on. You’ll deal directly with clients, agencies and hearing officers.
• At five years or more, this is the seat that turns a health litigator into a health law name.

The deal

• Salary: $135,000 to $240,000. The range covers two levels of hire, associate and partner, and where you land depends on your level and JD year.
• Location: Raleigh or Charlotte, or fully remote from any US state with office time as needed.

You’ll bring

• Admission to the North Carolina bar. This is required, wherever you live.
• Five years or more of health law litigation.
• A JD from an accredited law school and a strong academic record.
• The ability to explain a reimbursement rule to a clinic owner in plain English, and to a hearing officer in the language they expect.
• Sound judgment and a close eye for detail. In audit work, one date or code can decide the outcome.

What happens next

• The first conversation is confidential, with no pressure. We’ll talk through the role and what you want from the next stage of your career.
• There are usually two rounds of interviews.
• You’ll get constructive feedback after each round, whatever the outcome.

I’d especially like to hear from health law litigators in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, Charlotte, Greensboro, Wilmington and Asheville. I’d also like to hear from attorneys barred in North Carolina who live in Charleston, Columbia, Richmond, Atlanta, Washington DC or anywhere else in the US.