Associate General Counsel

Daymark Health•Philadelphia, PA

38d

About The Position

Daymark Health is a value-based oncology company redefining the cancer care experience for patients, providers, and health plans. Daymark’s comprehensive, personalized cancer care platform empowers patients with dedicated care navigation, symptom-focused support, behavioral health care, and social resources. Combined with evidence-based health interventions and a hybrid in-person + virtual care model, Daymark is improving the overall cancer experience for patients, providers, and health plans – and setting a new standard in cancer care. Daymark’s groundbreaking approach is led by CEO Dr. Justin Bekelman, a pioneer in transforming cancer care, alongside some of the nation’s foremost leaders in oncology and value-based care. Daymark Health is backed by Maverick Ventures, Yosemite, Oncology Ventures, Healthier Capital, Blue Venture Fund, and Healthcare Foundry. Be cautious of recruitment fraud, and always confirm that communications are coming from an official Daymark Health email. ABOUT THE ROLE As an Associate General Counsel at Daymark Health you'll have the chance to be our first in-house lawyer and build the legal function from the ground up. You'll join the senior leadership team, report directly to the CEO, and shape how a fast-growing, multi-state care model operates as it expands its provider footprint and its portfolio of value-based contracts with national and regional health plans. This is a rare opportunity to own the legal function. You'll have a say on everything from corporate governance to the regulatory architecture that makes Daymark's model possible, including enabling us to launch in new states. You’ll create the playbook for how the legal function operates at Daymark: the contracting templates, approval workflows, and outside counsel strategy that enables the business to move quickly and in the right direction. You'll thrive here if you've operated as a true legal generalist inside a healthcare company, are fluent in value-based care contracting, and are excited by the idea of building something foundational rather than maintaining something that already exists.

Requirements

10+ years of experience working in healthtech, including a JD and have passed the bar.
Legal background should be in corporate law and not in litigation, with 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, and comfort advising on emerging AI governance and liability issues.
Experience with multi-state employment law for a distributed or clinical workforce.
Prior experience as a 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, and 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.