Senior Legal Counsel

At INTEGRIS Health, our Mission, Vision and Values reflect our commitment to partnering to achieve healthier outcomes for our patients and communities. As the state’s largest Oklahoma-owned not-for-profit health system, INTEGRIS Health is an integrated enterprise focused on providing value-based care.

 

The Senior Legal Counsel serves within the Legal Services Department of INTEGRIS Health, Inc. and provides advanced legal support to all levels and groups within INTEGRIS Health to ensure compliance with laws and regulations established by federal, state, and local legislative bodies, regulatory agencies and courts.

 

This Senior Legal Counsel position will have two potential areas of focus (select one):

 

• Healthcare operations focus: Requires healthcare law specific competencies, including expert knowledge of EMTALA, STARK, Anti-Kickback, HIPAA, Fraud and Abuse prohibitions, medical staff and physician employment matters, and experienced contract drafting skills. 

 

• Corporate focus: Requires a broad knowledge of general corporate law, including antitrust laws, real estate, transactional documents and processes, nonprofit governance, HIPAA, healthcare fraud and abuse laws, and experienced contract drafting skills, including information technology agreements.

 

The ideal candidate will also have experience with identifying issues with either:

• Population health and value-based care initiatives
• Labor and employment

 

INTEGRIS Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.             

The Senior Legal Counsel responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following categories:

 

Substantive Legal Responsibilities

 

• Maintains an advanced knowledge of legal developments relevant to the operations of a hospital and medical group, including CMS Conditions of Participation, and correctly determines what effect developments will have on INTEGRIS Health hospital entities, service lines, medical staff members, patients and clinical contractors.

 

• Maintains an advanced knowledge of legal developments relevant to the operations of a not-for-profit entity and what effect developments will have on INTEGRIS Health business entities.

 

• Coordinates complex legal research and possesses a high degree of analytical ability when working with a team.

 

• Drafts, revises, and negotiates legal documents including notice letters, contracts, leases, corporate instruments, opinions, bylaws, policies/procedures.

 

• Manages complex and competing legal risks and regulatory guidance to evaluate problems and makes sound recommendations for resolution. 

 

• Provides educational training to leadership, medical staff members, employees, and other INTEGRIS Health stakeholders on topics as determined to be beneficial to reducing organizational risk.

 

 

• Provides advanced and independent legal advice to all levels of management, medical staff leaders and committees, as well as to caregivers throughout INTEGRIS Health to inform them of legality of contemplated actions and to advise them to take appropriate action consistent with legal and ethical parameters to achieve the mission and vision of INTEGRIS Health.

 

• Maintains confidentiality of information of highly sensitive nature concerning healthcare, business, and employment matters.

 

• Leads projects and maintains the respect of leaders within the organization for completion of objectives related to organizational priorities. 

 

• Identifies priorities based upon strategic importance, value, and risk to the organization.

 

Leadership and Professional Development

 

• Serves as supportive leader and mentor within the department to foster the professional development of associate legal counsel and interns.

 

• Exercises appropriate judgment regarding when to seek assistance from Deputy General Counsel.<