Healthcare Regulatory Associate

Leoforce; Pine Brook (NJ); On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct access to experienced health‑ca

Substantive healthcare regulatory work

Job summary

Leoforce is seeking a mid-level Healthcare Regulatory Associate in the New Jersey/New York area to advise healthcare providers and organizations on complex federal and state compliance matters.

The role involves counseling on the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, False Claims Act, and regulatory arrangements, with opportunities to draft and negotiate a range of healthcare agreements."

Qualifications

• Meaningful healthcare regulatory experience gained at a law firm, government agency, healthcare organization, or comparable legal environment.
• Experience with major healthcare compliance statutes and regulatory frameworks.
• Ability to understand 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, and related topics.
• Analyze proposed healthcare business arrangements and recommend compliant structures.
• Draft and negotiate healthcare contracts including employment, professional services, and vendor agreements.
• Advise on provider enrollment, credentialing, reimbursement, and payor disputes.
• Assist with healthcare transactions, due diligence, licensing, and post-closing integration.
• Advise on HIPAA, privacy, and data-sharing requirements.
• Develop compliance programs, policies, and training materials.
• Conduct internal reviews and investigations; respond to government inquiries.

Skills

Anti-Kickback Statute

Stark Law

False Claims Act

Corporate practice of medicine

Fee-splitting restrictions

Medicare and Medicaid

Provider enrollment

HIPAA and healthcare privacy

Healthcare transactions

New Jersey Bar admission

Strong client-service skills

Regulatory research and writing

Writing and drafting

Analytical skills

Client communication

Regulatory compliance

Education

New Jersey Bar admission

Job description

Job Description

Experience: Mid Level
Salary: $200,000 - $320,000 per year
Job Details
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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.

A bit about us:

Healthcare Regulatory Associate

New Jersey / New York

A nationally recognized healthcare and life sciences law firm is seeking an experienced Healthcare Regulatory Associate 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?

Why Consider This Opportunity?

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.

Benefits

• 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.