Staff Attorney

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center • Pittsburgh, PA

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About The Position

If you're interested in a professionally and personally rewarding career in healthcare law with long-term advancement opportunity, UPMC is recruiting for a Staff Attorney with excellent credentials. This person will provide effective legal counsel by helping to meet the legal needs of a large, diverse health care financing and delivery system, including an academic medical center and health care insurer. UPMC is a non-profit corporation based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and its affiliates operate more than 40 academic, community, and specialty hospitals and over 600 doctors' offices and outpatient sites, employ over 5,000 physicians, and offer an array of rehabilitation, retirement, and long-term care facilities. This is a junior attorney position. The successful candidate will be part of a collegial and diverse legal team supporting UPMC's provider services divisions and various corporate enterprise shared services departments. They will have exposure to a broad range of legal areas and transactions, with a focus on Fair Market Value provider employment, incentive plans and professional and administrative services leases. Join our team today, learn from us, and help us impact the future of healthcare!

Requirements

• J.D. Degree required.
• Pennsylvania attorney license or obtain such license within six (6) months of date-of-hire required.
• Strong legal analytical skills, communication skills, solid legal writing skills, and problem solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to handle unique, sensitive and complex legal matters, subject to senior attorney supervision and oversight.

Nice To Haves

• Professional education and/or practical experience in health law or another relevant regulation-heavy specialty is helpful, but is not required.

Responsibilities

• Provide counsel to managers, health care practitioners and administrative staff and address and resolve legal issues as they arise on a daily basis, in areas including regulatory and provider employment law.
• Engage in legal support of corporate and commercial healthcare transactions, including due diligence, contract drafting, review and negotiation.
• Provide guidance with respect to contractual arrangements and prepare contractual and other legal documentation.
• Engage in the application of legal knowledge, analysis and judgment to health care and general corporate legal matters in areas such as Medicare, Medicaid, licensure, malpractice liability, compliance, federal and state grants and contracts, payor/provider contracting, corporate and commercial law, and employment.
• Conduct legal research and perform legal analysis.
• Review and recommend changes to corporate policy to ensure compliance with legal requirements.
• Manage and support outside counsel in representing UPMC in legal proceedings.
• Perform in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Responsible for legal research, preparing legal documentation, and providing legal guidance within the organization with respect to non-complex contractual and business arrangements and compliance with legal requirements.
• Provide legal counsel and legal services as identified to UPMC's corporate departments and to those UPMC clinical departments divisions and business units to which the Staff Attorney is assigned.
• Apply general legal knowledge in areas that may include federal and state health care laws and regulations, corporate law, labor and employment, antitrust, insurance, commercial and finance; and begin to develop specialized legal knowledge in one or more of such areas.
• Provide guidance with respect to contractual arrangements and prepare contractual and other legal documentation.
• Apply legal knowledge, analysis and judgment to identify alternative approaches and their relative merits and recommend solutions to routine and less complex legal problems.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees