Lawyer

General Counsel

Reporting to the CEO the General Counsel serves as Palmetto Infusion Services General Counsel and a strategic business partner to the executive team. This role provides practical risk-based counsel in a highly regulated healthcare environment leads enterprise-wide legal strategy governance support and risk management and oversees the compliance function to enable ethical compliant growth by proactively identifying assessing and mitigating legal and regulatory risk across the organization.

Schedule: Monday Friday 8:00 AM 5:00 PM

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience/Education: Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school Active bar admission and ability to practice in South Carolina and/or in the jurisdictions in which Palmetto Infusion Services operates (or eligibility for in-house counsel registration as applicable) Extensive experience in healthcare law healthcare regulatory compliance and corporate governance including advising executives on risk-based decision-making in a highly regulated environment. Working knowledge of healthcare accreditation standards and survey processes for infusion and pharmacy services including readiness planning policy alignment and corrective action oversight. Ability to cope with ambiguous changing environment while under pressure in a calm manner. Must be able to work as a team member and develop productive and cooperative working relationships with all members of the Palmetto Infusion team.

Essential Functions:

• Advise the CEO and executive leadership on enterprise strategy growth and operational decisions translating legal and regulatory requirements into actionable guidance and risk-based options.
• Lead healthcare regulatory guidance across the organization including Medicare/Medicaid participation and reimbursement infusion pharmacy and clinic operations provider relationships and multi-state licensure and permitting.
• Implement oversee and maintain a comprehensive Compliance Program aligned with HHS-OIG guidance including risk assessments policies/procedures training auditing/monitoring investigations corrective action remediation and regular reporting to the CEO and Board provide executive oversight of the compliance function with the Director of Corporate Compliance reporting to the General Counsel.
• Advise on fraud waste and abuse risks including compliance with Anti-Kickback Statute Stark Law False Claims Act and analogous state laws recommend controls and remediation actions.
• Serve as HIPAA Compliance Officer and privacy/security legal advisor overseeing privacy governance policy standards training incident response and breach notification vendor/BAA review and collaboration with IT/security on risk mitigation.
• Manage contracting and transactions including drafting reviewing and negotiating agreements (payer vendor pharmacy/wholesaler technology leases provider and strategic partnerships) and developing templates playbooks and approval workflows.
• Lead corporate governance and Board support by advising on governance practices fiduciary duties delegated authority record retention and documentation prepare and review Board/committee materials and maintain corporate records as assigned.
• Set litigation and dispute strategy for claims subpoenas administrative actions and payer/provider disputes oversee outside counsel budgets outcomes and document preservation/e-discovery readiness.
• Lead internal investigations involving compliance privacy billing/claims integrity and ethical matters ensuring privilege considerations and oversight of response plans remediation and reporting obligations.
• Oversee accreditation readiness and ongoing compliance ensuring alignment with infusion and pharmacy standards support surveys responses corrective action plans and sustained adherence.
• Serve as executive representative in regulatory interactions with agencies boards of pharmacy departments of health licensing bodies and payers coordinate submissions audits surveys responses and advise on regulatory strategy and outcomes.
• Build and scale the legal and compliance function by establishing matter management and contract lifecycle processes defining decision rights and escalation paths developing executive/Board metrics and reporting managing outside counsel strategy and spend delivering targeted training maintaining knowledge of evolving laws and enforcement trends and fostering a culture of integrity collaboration accountability and transparency perform other duties as assigned.

About the Benefits:

• Competitive Compensation
• Comprehensive Medical Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Company Life Insurance
• Voluntary Life and Disability Insurance
• Additional Voluntary Supplemental Plans
• Flexible Spending Account (Medical and Dependent Care)
• Health Savings Account
• 401K Retirement Plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Discounts
• Ramsey SmartDollar Program
• Referral Program
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid Time Off
• 8 Paid Company Holidays

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job the employee may be required to frequently stand walk sit bend twist talk and hear. There may be prolonged periods of sitting keyboarding reading as well as driving or riding in transport vehicles. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include reading distance computer and color vision. Talking and hearing are essential to communicate with patients vendors and staff.

All employees must uphold the confidentiality of protected health information and follow all HIPAA policies. This position has access to sensitive information and a breach of information may be grounds for immediate termination.

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.