Senior Counsel

Spectrum Health; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

On-demand pay

Identity protection

Retirement plan

Job summary

Corewell Health in Grand Rapids, MI seeks a Senior Counsel to report to the VP, Deputy General Counsel and collaborate with senior leaders to craft innovative physician contracts that advance strategic objectives while ensuring regulatory compliance.

You will guide negotiations, draft employment agreements, and advise on models of care delivery, value-based arrangements, and risk-sharing initiatives, coordinating with finance, operations, and clinical leadership.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor from ABA-accredited law school.
• Experience advising on physician arrangements and healthcare regulation.
• Strong negotiation and drafting skills for complex physician contracts.

Responsibilities

• Serve as strategic and legal advisor to senior leaders on physician arrangements.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on employment agreements and related models.
• Apply health system operations knowledge to deliver practical legal guidance.
• Collaborate with finance, compensation, and business leaders on incentives.
• Support evaluation of value-based care models, risk-sharing, and alignment.
• Develop educational materials and provide training on regulatory requirements.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly to non-legal leaders.

Skills

Strategic advisory

Negotiation

Drafting documents

Regulatory compliance

Healthcare law

Leadership collaboration

Education

Juris Doctor (ABA-accredited)

Job description

Job Summary

The Senior Counsel will report to the VP, Deputy General Counsel and collaborate closely with other senior legal leaders, including the Chief Legal Officer, SVP, General Counsel and other VP, Deputy General Counsels. The Senior Counsel will also collaborate closely with other department representatives, including physician recruitment, compensation, finance, operations, population health, and executive leadership to develop contracts that are innovative and that advance the organization's strategic objectives while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Beyond traditional physician contracting, this role will help the organization evaluate and implement emerging models of care delivery and payment, including value-based arrangements, population health initiatives, risk-sharing structures, care coordination programs, and physician alignment strategies.

Essential Functions

• Serve as a strategic and legal advisor to senior leaders on a wide range of routine and complex physician arrangements, including compensation design, negotiation, drafting documents and implementation.


• Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on physician employment agreements, medical directorships, call coverage arrangements, professional services agreements, and emerging provider collaboration models.


• Apply understanding of health system and/or health plan operations to deliver actionable, practical, business-focused legal advice when advising on physician arrangements, regulatory considerations, risk allocation, and alignment with organizational strategy.


• Partner with operational and clinical leaders to develop innovative physician alignment strategies that support organizational growth, quality, patient access, and care transformation.


• Collaborate with finance, compensation, and business leaders on commercial reasonableness, fair market value, physician compensation and incentive design.


• Support the organization with evaluation and implementation of emerging models of care delivery and payment, including value-based arrangements, population health initiatives, shared savings arrangements, risk-sharing structures, care coordination programs, physician alignment strategies, clinically integrated networks, and alternative payment models.


• Knowledge of financial principles applicable to physician arrangements and demonstrated ability to review and understand fair market value assessments and related documents.


• Monitor developments in healthcare regulation, reimbursement, physician compensation trends, value-based care models, and industry best practices, and proactively advise leadership regarding emerging opportunities and risks.


• Support acquisitions, physician integration initiatives, joint ventures, strategic affiliations, and other enterprise transactions involving providers.


• Develop educational materials and provide training to internal stakeholders regarding physician arrangements and healthcare regulatory requirements.


• Communicate complex legal concepts in a clear and concise manner to non-legal business and senior leaders.


• Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with, and as needed provide mentorship, direction and guidance to, fellow attorneys, legal specialists, and other team members throughout the organization.


• Foster and maintain relationships with and provide cost-effective use and oversight of external legal counsel, consultants, and advisors.

Qualifications Required

• Doctorate from an ABA accredited law school


• 7 years of relevant experience after law school


• Preferred CRT-Attorneys working as counsel (ATTORNEY) - ABA American Bar Association


• Upon Hire 5 years of relevant experience with Physician arrangements experience, demonstrated ability to support large-scale transactions – combination of private practice and in house


• 5 years of relevant experience with knowledge of and ability to provide legal guidance on healthcare laws such as Stark Law, AKS, HIPAA, Medicare/Medicaid, antitrust, tax, nonprofit requirements, health insurance requirements, and state regulatory frameworks


• 3 years of relevant experience in collaborating with legal professionals and non-legal team members and leaders through transactions


• 3 years of relevant experience in healthcare industry serving healthcare or health plan clients

About Corewell Health

As a team member at Corewell Health, you will play an essential role in delivering personalized health care to our patients, members and our communities. We are committed to cultivating and investing in YOU. Our top-notch teams are comprised of collaborators, leaders and innovators that continue to build on one shared mission statement - to improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope. Join a nationally recognized health system with an ambitious vision of continued advancement and excellence.

We have an interconnected, collaborative culture where all are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work, is vital to the health of our organization. As a health system, we advocate for equity as we care for our patients, our communities, and each other. From workshops that develop cultural intelligence, to our inclusion resource groups for people to find community and empowerment at work, we are dedicated to ongoing resources that advance our values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do.

We invite those that share in our commitment to join our team. Corewell Health is committed to a safe environment for our team members, patients, visitors, and community. We require a drug-free workplace and require team members to comply with the MMR, Varicella, Tdap, and Influenza vaccine requirement if in an on-site or hybrid workplace category. We are committed to supporting prospective team members who require reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application process, to perform the essential functions of a job, or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment due to a disability, pregnancy, or sincerely held religious belief.

Corewell Health grants equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, genetic information, marital status, height, weight, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected category.

How Corewell Health cares for you

• Comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health, and work/life balance goals.


• On-demand pay program powered by Payactiv Discount directory with deals on the things that matter to you, like restaurants, phone plans, spas, and more.


• Optional identity theft protection, home and auto insurance.


• Traditional and Roth retirement options with service contribution and match savings.

Location and Employment

Primary Location SITE - Corewell Health Place - 100 Corewell Drive NW - Grand Rapids

Employment Type Full time

Shift Weekly Scheduled Hours 40 Hours of Work 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Days Worked Monday - Friday Weekend Frequency N/A

Eligibility for benefits is determined by employment type and status.