Senior Healthcare Counsel & Compliance Lead

Mayfield Brain & Spine; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Mayfield Brain & Spine in Cincinnati, OH seeks an experienced healthcare attorney to join as Assistant General Counsel. This hands-on role delivers legal and regulatory guidance to executives, physicians, and operations, shaping strategy and responsible growth.

You will oversee HIPAA, Stark Law, Anti-Kickback, False Claims Act compliance, and enterprise risk, while serving as Compliance Officer and liaison with outside counsel. In-house healthcare experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
• Active license to practice law in Ohio.
• Seven to ten years of progressively responsible legal experience.
• Significant experience advising healthcare organizations, physician practices, health systems, MSOs, ambulatory care providers, or similar healthcare entities.
• Experience negotiating complex healthcare and commercial agreements.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare regulatory requirements, including HIPAA, Stark Law, and the Anti-Kickback Statute.
• Sound business judgment and the ability to provide clear, practical, risk-based legal advice.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, and executive presence.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with physicians, executives, and operational leaders.

Responsibilities

• Advise executive leadership, physicians, and operational leaders on legal, regulatory, and business matters.
• Support mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, new service lines, and other growth initiatives.
• Draft and negotiate physician employment agreements, professional services agreements, hospital and health system agreements, payer contracts, vendor agreements, technology contracts, and other complex commercial arrangements.
• Serve as Mayfield’s Compliance Officer, overseeing compliance programs, monitoring, investigations, and remediation.
• Provide guidance on HIPAA, Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare requirements.
• Advise on physician and advanced practice provider arrangements, compensation models, fair market value, and commercial reasonableness.
• Counsel the organization on privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data governance, telehealth, and digital health matters.
• Partner with Human Resources on workplace investigations, employment agreements, leave and accommodation matters, wage and hour compliance, discipline, and terminations.
• Support corporate governance, board and committee activities, and affiliated legal entities.
• Manage litigation, regulatory inquiries, audits, subpoenas, disputes, and outside counsel relationships.
• Provide practical legal and compliance education to leaders, physicians, managers, and employees.

Skills

Executive presence

Communication

Relationship-building

Collaboration

Education

Juris Doctor degree

Active Ohio law license

Job description

Mayfield Brain & Spine in Cincinnati, OH seeks an experienced healthcare attorney to join as Assistant General Counsel. This hands-on role delivers legal and regulatory guidance to executives, physicians, and operations, shaping strategy and responsible growth.

You will oversee HIPAA, Stark Law, Anti-Kickback, False Claims Act compliance, and enterprise risk, while serving as Compliance Officer and liaison with outside counsel. In-house healthcare experience is preferred.