Senior Corporate Counsel

Description

This position is incentive eligible.
Introduction

Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a Sr Counsel with HealthTrust you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!

Benefits

HealthTrust, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
  
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
  
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
  
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
  
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Would you like to unlock your potential with a leading healthcare provider dedicated to the growth and development of our colleagues? Join the HealthTrust family! We will give you the tools and resources you need to succeed in our organization. We are looking for an enthusiastic Sr Counsel to help us reach our goals. Unlock your potential!

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Senior Corporate Counsel reports to a Managing Counsel of HealthTrust Purchasing Group, L.P. (“HealthTrust”). The position will be responsible for drafting agreements, legal review of agreements, negotiations with opposing parties on terms of agreements, and consulting on issues related to agreements, primarily with suppliers of products, equipment, services, and software used by HealthTrust members and HCA affiliates.

What you will do in this role:

• Provide legal support for vendor contracts to be entered into between any supplier of products, equipment, services, and/or computer software and HealthTrust for access by HealthTrust member institutions.
• Provide legal support for vendor contracts to be entered into between any supplier of products, equipment, services and any HCA affiliated entity, including HCA Supply Chain operations, HCA Divisions and Facilities, and HCA corporate departments.
• Provide legal support for membership agreements related to HealthTrust, AdvantageTrust, Valify Solutions Group, and IHP GPO programs.
• Negotiate and draft vendor contracts, including software licensing, SAAS solutions, on-premise software, information security agreements and related and other services.
• Draft agreements and templates; coordinate with the internal business clients to ensure proper legal documents are used; review edits proposed by other contracting parties; negotiate with other parties to arrive at mutually acceptable language; and assist business clients in finalizing documents for signatures.
• Provide legal guidance on contract interpretation and other legal issues related to group purchasing and healthcare supply chain operations.
• Draft and negotiate custom pricing agreements for specific HealthTrust members.
• Provide legal guidance on compliance with various healthcare and fair competition laws and regulations, especially the Anti-kickback laws and regulations, the Discount Safe Harbor, and the GPO Safe Harbor.
• Assist with coordination of responses to subpoenas and government requests for information and documents.
• Assist in the drafting and implementation of policies regarding the contracting process and ethics and compliance matters.
• Conduct presentations and training activities on subjects of expertise, evolving legal matters, and other areas of interest for fellow legal team members and internal business clients.
• Act as a trusted, integral member of cross-functional teams, providing both legal and strategic business advice to enable growth and success across the enterprise with risk mitigation appropriate to the circumstances.
• Liaise independently with Senior Corporate officers on complex matters of legal exposure to the organization.
• Accomplish special projects as assigned by the Managing Counsel and Chief Legal Officer.

What qualifications you will need:

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• JD Degree from accredited Law School required
• Transactional negotiation experience required
• Experience negotiating technology license agreements a plus
• Healthcare regulatory experience desired but not required
• 10+ years of experience preferred
• Member of the TN Bar, ability to be waived into the TN Bar, or willing to take the TN Bar exam.

HealthTrust Supply Chain is a critical part of HCA Healthcare’s strategy. Our focus is to improve performance and reduce costs. We do this by joining non-clinical and administrative functions. HealthTrust Supply Chain best practice methodologies. We develop, apply and monitor cost-efficient initiatives and programs for HCA Healthcare. By improving facility efficiency, medical professionals can focus on our mission - patient care.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our Sr Counsel opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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