Associate General Counsel

Daymark Health•Boston, MA

12d•$225,000 - $260,000

About The Position

Daymark Health is seeking an Associate General Counsel to be their first in-house lawyer and build the legal function from the ground up. This role will join the senior leadership team, report directly to the CEO, and shape the legal operations of a fast-growing, multi-state care model as it expands its provider footprint and value-based contracts. The position offers a unique opportunity to own the legal function, influencing corporate governance, regulatory architecture, and the development of contracting templates, approval workflows, and outside counsel strategies. The ideal candidate will be a true legal generalist within a healthcare company, fluent in value-based care contracting, and eager to build foundational legal infrastructure.

Requirements

10+ years of experience working in healthtech
JD and passed the bar
Legal background in corporate law (not litigation)
Substantive experience negotiating and structuring value-based care arrangements with health plans
Deep, hands-on experience with CPOM, healthcare fraud and abuse law (Stark, AKS, FCA), and MSO/PC structuring across multiple states
Working knowledge of HIPAA and state privacy law
Comfort advising on emerging AI governance and liability issues
Experience with multi-state employment law for a distributed or clinical workforce
Prior experience as an Associate General Counsel or senior deputy, comfortable spanning governance, M&A, commercial, and employment matters without a large team
A track record of building legal processes and infrastructure
Sound judgment on when to build in-house versus engage outside counsel
Excellent judgment, low ego, and a bias toward pragmatic, business-enabling solutions in a fast-moving environment

Responsibilities

Act as Daymark’s company-wide general counsel, covering corporate governance, board matters (including board minutes, consents, and equity plan administration), entity formation and maintenance, M&A and diligence support, and commercial contracting.
Serve as Daymark's lead on corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) analysis across all states of operation, advising on permissible ownership, governance, and management structures for provider-based entities.
Support payer and value-based care contracting from LOI through execution, including delegation agreements, credentialing provisions, and data use terms.
Lead resolution of payer disputes as they arise, including reconciliation disagreements and disputed terms, escalating and coordinating litigation strategy with outside counsel where needed.
Select, manage, and hold accountable outside counsel across specialty areas (regulatory, litigation, M&A, employment).
Advise on Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, and False Claims Act exposure across Daymark's arrangements, with particular attention to referral relationships, payment structures, and MSO fee arrangements inherent to value-based care.
Monitor and advise on state-specific licensure (including multi-state licensure compact issues for NPs and RNs), scope of practice, telehealth practice-of-medicine rules, fee-splitting, and corporate practice rules as Daymark enters new markets.
Partner with Clinical Operations and the COO's compliance function to ensure clinical staffing models, supervision arrangements, and delegation agreements meet regulatory requirements across jurisdictions, supporting (without owning) the company's compliance program as the legal subject-matter expert.
Own Daymark's data privacy and security compliance program, including HIPAA and state-specific health data privacy laws as the company expands into new states.
Review and negotiate data use terms in payer, vendor, and technology agreements, with particular attention to PHI flowing through Daymark's analytics infrastructure.
Partner with Data and Product teams to build Daymark's legal and governance framework for AI use, including model risk, data provenance, clinical decision-support liability, and emerging state and federal AI regulation relevant to healthcare.
Advise on AI vendor contracts and internal AI tooling from a privacy, IP, and liability perspective.
Review and negotiate vendor, technology, and SaaS agreements, partnership and licensing agreements, and real estate matters.
Own multi-state employment law matters, including policy compliance, terminations, investigations, and litigation risk for a distributed clinical workforce.
Manage corporate insurance programs, including malpractice and tail coverage and credentialing-related liability, coordinating with Clinical leadership on incident response.
Manage IP protection and assignment.
Advise the executive team and board on legal risk across strategic initiatives, including new market entry, new product lines, and partnership structures.
Establish scalable processes for contract review turnaround, regulatory tracking across states, and legal risk escalation to leadership.
Optimize outside counsel for cost and quality as the company scales.