Healthcare Regulatory Associate

Jobot; Pine Brook (NJ); On-site; USD 200,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobot is actively seeking an experienced Healthcare Regulatory Associate to join its nationally recognized healthcare and life sciences practice in New Jersey or New York. The role offers meaningful client contact and exposure to federal and state healthcare regulations, licensing, reimbursement, and enforcement matters.

You will work with senior healthcare attorneys, have substantial drafting responsibility, and help advise a broad range of healthcare providers and businesses.

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare regulatory law at a law firm, government, healthcare organization, or comparable legal environment.
• Familiarity with Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, False Claims Act, and related healthcare laws.
• Strong writing, research, drafting, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to advise on complex healthcare business arrangements and provide practical, business‑oriented advice.
• New Jersey Bar admission is required or must be obtainable promptly; New York admission is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Advise healthcare providers and businesses on federal and state regulatory requirements.
• Counsel clients regarding the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, False Claims Act, fee-splitting restrictions, and corporate practice of medicine requirements.
• Analyze proposed healthcare business arrangements and recommend compliant structures.
• Draft and negotiate physician employment agreements, professional services agreements, management services agreements, medical director agreements, vendor agreements, and other healthcare contracts.
• Advise physician groups, medical practices, pharmacies, laboratories, ambulatory surgery centers, behavioral health organizations, telehealth companies, and other healthcare entities.
• Counsel clients on provider enrollment, credentialing, reimbursement, billing compliance, overpayments, audits, recoupments, and payor disputes.
• Assist with healthcare transactions, including regulatory due diligence, change-of-ownership matters, licensing, entity structuring, and post-closing integration.
• Advise on HIPAA, HITECH, business associate agreements, privacy, data use, and information‑sharing requirements.
• Develop and assess compliance programs, policies, procedures, and training materials.
• Conduct internal compliance reviews and investigations.
• Advise clients regarding voluntary disclosures, self‑disclosures, and responses to government inquiries.
• Prepare legal memoranda, regulatory analyses, client alerts, policies, agreements, and other client‑facing work product.
• Monitor developments in federal and state healthcare laws and provide practical guidance to clients.
• Work collaboratively with attorneys across healthcare litigation, corporate, employment, pharmacy, reimbursement, and life sciences practices.

Skills

Healthcare regulatory

Regulatory research

Legal drafting

Client communication

Contract negotiation

Analytical skills

Job description

Healthcare Regulatory Associate

A nationally recognized healthcare and life sciences law firm is seeking an experienced Healthcare Regulatory Associate in New Jersey or New York to join its growing practice.

This is an excellent opportunity for an attorney who wants to build a sophisticated, highly specialized practice advising healthcare providers, organizations, investors, and businesses on complex regulatory, transactional, reimbursement, compliance, and enforcement matters.

The successful candidate will work closely with experienced healthcare attorneys and have meaningful client contact, substantive responsibility, and exposure to matters involving federal and state healthcare regulations, business structuring, fraud and abuse, licensing, reimbursement, and government investigations.

Why join us?

This role offers the opportunity to join a law firm whose platform is specifically built around healthcare and life sciences rather than treating healthcare as a small component of a broader general practice.

• A highly concentrated healthcare regulatory practice.
• Substantive work involving healthcare business models, compliance, reimbursement, and transactions.
• Direct access to experienced healthcare attorneys.
• Significant client contact and opportunities to develop trusted advisory relationships.
• Exposure to a broad range of healthcare providers and emerging healthcare businesses.
• The ability to develop deep expertise in fraud and abuse, licensing, reimbursement, privacy, and transactional healthcare matters.
• Meaningful drafting and counseling responsibility.
• Strong opportunities for professional development and long‑term advancement.
• A collaborative, entrepreneurial environment that values initiative and subject‑matter expertise.

Compensation

The anticipated base salary range is approximately $200,000–$325,000, depending on experience, qualifications, practice depth, market considerations, and the overall strength of the candidate’s background.

Additional compensation and benefits may also be available.

Salary: $200,000 - $320,000 per year

Key Responsibilities

• Advise healthcare providers and businesses on federal and state regulatory requirements.
• Counsel clients regarding the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, False Claims Act, fee-splitting restrictions, and corporate practice of medicine requirements.
• Analyze proposed healthcare business arrangements and recommend compliant structures.
• Draft and negotiate physician employment agreements, professional services agreements, management services agreements, medical director agreements, vendor agreements, and other healthcare contracts.
• Advise physician groups, medical practices, pharmacies, laboratories, ambulatory surgery centers, behavioral health organizations, telehealth companies, and other healthcare entities.
• Counsel clients on provider enrollment, credentialing, reimbursement, billing compliance, overpayments, audits, recoupments, and payor disputes.
• Assist with healthcare transactions, including regulatory due diligence, change-of-ownership matters, licensing, entity structuring, and post-closing integration.
• Advise on HIPAA, HITECH, business associate agreements, privacy, data use, and information‑sharing requirements.
• Develop and assess compliance programs, policies, procedures, and training materials.
• Conduct internal compliance reviews and investigations.
• Advise clients regarding voluntary disclosures, self‑disclosures, and responses to government inquiries.
• Prepare legal memoranda, regulatory analyses, client alerts, policies, agreements, and other client‑facing work product.
• Monitor developments in federal and state healthcare laws and provide practical guidance to clients.
• Work collaboratively with attorneys across healthcare litigation, corporate, employment, pharmacy, reimbursement, and life sciences practices.

Qualifications

• Meaningful healthcare regulatory experience gained at a law firm, government agency, healthcare organization, or comparable legal environment.
• Experience with several of the following:
  • Anti‑Kickback Statute
  • Stark Law
  • False Claims Act
  • Corporate practice of medicine
  • Fee‑splitting restrictions
  • Medicare and Medicaid
  • Healthcare licensing
  • Provider enrollment
  • Reimbursement and payor matters
  • HIPAA and healthcare privacy
  • Healthcare transactions
• Strong legal research, writing, drafting, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to understand complex healthcare business arrangements and provide practical, business‑oriented advice.
• Strong client‑service skills and comfort communicating directly with healthcare executives, providers, compliance personnel, and business owners.
• Ability to manage multiple matters and competing deadlines.
• Excellent judgment, attention to detail, and organizational skills.
• New Jersey Bar admission is required or must be obtainable promptly. New York admission is helpful.

Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Jobot also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is Jobot’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.