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The University of Rochester Medical Center seeks an experienced health care attorney to provide legal support to the Medical Center and its affiliates. The primary duties for this position will include:

• Corporate transactions, including acquisition of physician practices and affiliations with hospitals and health systems. In the context of such transactions, draft and negotiate definitive agreements, address issues such as Stark and Anti-Kickback, real estate, antitrust, billing compliance, due diligence, contracts, equipment lease/purchase, medical records custody, and faculty/staff hiring and employment.
• Legal support to the Medical Center and its affiliates on legal/regulatory issues, medical staff matters, policies, governance and corporate issues, contracts and other legal issues.
• Review, drafting and negotiation of contracts and provision of legal advice related to medical center, hospital and physician relationships, including professional service agreements, telehealth agreements, affiliation agreements, laboratory services agreements, locum tenens agreements, confidentiality agreements, and data use and business associate agreements.
• Review faculty employment offers and provide related advice, e.g., faculty/physician employment, compensation, tenure and faculty handbook rights and covenants not to compete.
• Serve as subject matter expert on telehealth and telemedicine; and on discrete billing issues including but not limited to compliance with federal provider-based billing requirements.
• Have an in-depth knowledge and expertise in other specialty health care topics, such as reimbursement, Stark/Anti-Kickback, privacy and security, general healthcare (e.g., informed consent) medical staff matters, tax, immigration, human subjects research, animal research, and/or graduate medical education.

Our Clients:

Established in 1850, the University of Rochester is one of the country's top-tier research universities and one of the largest employers in New York State.  The University’s health care system, UR Medicine, includes Strong Memorial Hospital (an 830-bed teaching hospital and the only Level I trauma center and transplant program in the region), Golisano Children’s Hospital, James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, the Eastman Institute of Oral Health, a number of community hospitals throughout the Finger Lakes region, long term care facilities, home health agencies, and a large network of primary care and specialty provider groups. The Medical Center also includes the School of Medicine and Dentistry, School of Nursing, the University of Rochester Medical Faculty Group.

Experience and Qualifications:

The successful candidate will be hired as Senior Counsel or as Associate Counsel, depending on experience.  Senior Counsel will have ten or more years of health care legal experience; Associate Counsel will have four or more years of health care legal experience. They will have excellent academic credentials and superior verbal and written communication skills, be collaborative, and have a high level of personal integrity and strong interpersonal skills.  A license to practice law in New York, or fulfillment of the criteria to register as in-house counsel in New York, is required.  Please note that we are currently unable to offer a long-term fully remote work setting.

Application Process:

For more information about the position, and to apply online, please go to the University’s careers website, at https://rochester.edu/working/hr/jobs/ (“job search – all other openings”), and enter keyword “counsel,” or search for Job Posting #233962 (Associate Counsel), or for those with ten or more years’ experience, Job Posting #233963 (Senior Counsel)

Senior Counsel will have ten or more years of health care legal experience;

Associate Counsel will have four or more years of health care legal experience