Senior Counsel, Commercial

Cityblock Health, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 153,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Retirement benefits

Equity program

Paid time off

Job summary

Cityblock Health, Inc. seeks a thoughtful, organized corporate counsel to partner with the Commercial team on health plan partner work.

The role supports growth by drafting and negotiating revenue agreements, advising on value-based contracting, and navigating regulatory considerations. The attorney will report to the General Counsel, manage multiple negotiations with minimal oversight, and help improve contract processes and deal cycles while aligning with Cityblock’s mission to bring

Qualifications

• Requires a JD and 7+ years of corporate work experience in healthcare may be in-house or law firm
• Experience negotiating and drafting complex contracts with health plan partners
• Ability to manage multiple negotiations and provide strategic, risk-based guidance
• Strong communication, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Lead drafting, editing, and negotiating revenue-generating agreements with payor partners
• Advise on value-based and fee-for-service contracting and contract templates
• Navigate regulatory considerations including Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, and licensure
• Collaborate with Commercial and leadership teams to translate legal topics into actionable decisions
• Represent Cityblock in external negotiations with health plans
• Design contract extraction processes for business teams

Skills

Corporate law

Health care law

Negotiation

Contract drafting

Communication

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

About the Role:

We are seeking a deeply thoughtful, hardworking, emotionally intelligent, organized, and pragmatic attorney who is excited to serve as Cityblock’s corporate counsel partnering with the Commercial team on all health plan partner related work. This role will play an integral role in helping to drive Cityblock’s performance by building, optimizing, and transforming our market growth through contracts and will report into the General Counsel. This role will:

• Support Cityblock’s Commercial teams in a wide variety of strategic, risk-based alliances and business development activities across all Cityblock markets
• Proactively identify problems within the assignment and adjacent functions and drive to positive and impactful solutions.
• Manage large-scale deliverables with little or no oversight.
• Manage multiple functional areas, each as more fully outlined below

For Growth:

• Lead drafting, editing, and negotiating all revenue generating (and related) agreements with payor partners (including but not limited to LOIs; Definitive Agreements; BAAs; etc)
• Assist the Commercial teams to advance short-term and long-term best practices for value-based and fee-for-service contracting, including governing terms, reimbursement rates and structures, reporting, and contract template structure
• Provide assistance in navigating structural and regulatory considerations, such as: multi-state organizational licensure (such as IPAs and ACOs); multistate utilization review licensure and certification needs; compliance implications of increased clinical and financial integration models, privacy and security, and data sharing and reporting; and the applicability of the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute, civil monetary penalty laws, and corporate practice of medicine doctrines
• Serve as a critical and a collaborative thought partner with the Commercial team and the broader leadership team by translating complex legal topics into relevant, insightful explanations that inform strategic and operational decisions
• Represent Cityblock externally during negotiations with health plan partners
• Take learnings from past negotiations to continually improve our contracts and negotiating strategy

For Partnerships:

• Work collaboratively with the commercial to advise on strategic partnership issues and answer legal questions that arise during the course of our relationships
• Design contract extractions for partnership and business teams so folks across the organization can easily operationalize the contracts

For Network:

• Partner with Network team to draft and negotiate contracts that support our Network strategy
• Design contract extractions for network and business teams so folks across the organization can easily operationalize the contracts
• Continually hone our processes to maximize efficiency and capture learnings to speed up deal cycles and promote high customer satisfaction and appropriate oversight of network partnerships
• Establish excellent rapport and working relationships with colleagues in order to encourage and continue the proactive use of in-house legal counsel

Requirements:

• JD degree 7+ years of corporate work experience Transactional healthcare background with an in-house legal department for a healthcare company or law firm in a healthcare practice area
• Excellent multitasking and prioritization skills with a proven ability to manage multiple contract negotiations and provider agreements in parallel
• Prior experience in an externally facing capacity
• Radical candor and comfortability working within an often ambiguous, high growth environment
• Exceptional management, mentorship, and communication skills that are conducive to an environment where issues are identified and resolved
• Mission driven to serve in an organization dedicated to bringing novel care delivery models to underserved populations

Benefits:

• health insurance
• life insurance
• retirement benefits
• participation in the company's equity program
• paid time off, including vacation and sick leave

We take into account an individual’s qualifications, skillset, and experience in determining final salary.

The actual offer will be at the company’s sole discretion and determined by relevant business considerations, including the final candidate’s qualifications, years of experience, skillset, and geographic location.

The expected salary range for this position is: $153,000.00 - $210,000.00 Annual

Equal Opportunity Employment:

Cityblock values diversity as a core tenet of the work we do and the populations we serve. We are an equal opportunity employer, indiscriminate of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.

Cityblock Health is the first tech-driven provider for communities with complex needs - bringing better care to where it’s needed most, block by block. Founded in 2017 on the premise that "health is local" and based in Brooklyn, we are backed by Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs along with some of the top healthcare investors in the country.

Our mission is to improve the health of underserved communities. Importantly, our solutions are designed specifically for Medicaid and lower-income Medicare beneficiaries, and we meet our members where they are, bringing care into the home and neighborhoods through our community-based care teams and Virtual Care offerings. In close collaboration with community-based organizations, local providers, and leading health plans, we are reorganizing the health system to focus on what matters to our members. Equipped with world-class, custom care delivery technology, we deliver personalized primary care, behavioral health, and social services to deliver a radically better experience of care for every member and community we serve. Over the next year, we’ll grow quickly to bring better care to many more members and their communities. To do this, we need people who, like us, believe that everyone should have good care for what matters to them, in their community.

Our work is grounded in a belief in the power of a diverse community. To close gaps in care and advance equity in the communities we serve, we have to start with making our own team diverse and inclusive. Our ways of working are characterized by creativity, collaboration, and mutual learning that comes from bringing together a community from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We strive to ensure that every person on the Cityblock team, and every Cityblock member, feels supported and included as a part of our community.

Values:

• Aim for Understanding
• Be All In
• Bring Your Whole Self
• Lean Into Discomfort
• Put Members First

About our Team:

We employ a field-based, home-based care model and are committed to meeting members where they are--in their homes, in their community, and in our Hubs. We will go above and beyond to connect with Cityblock members in a non-judgmental, respectful and empathic manner, to meet their needs, and to provide feedback to the system as a whole as we strive to do better every day.