Lead Pharmacy Counsel, vitaCare Prescription Services

GoodRx is America’s healthcare marketplace. Each month, millions of people visit goodrx.com to find reliable health information and discounts for their healthcare — and we’ve helped people save $35 billion since 2011. We provide prescription discounts that are accepted at more than 70,000 pharmacies in the U.S., as well as telehealth services including doctor visits and lab tests. Our services have been positively reviewed by Good Morning America, The New York Times, NBC News, AARP, and many others.
Our goal is to help Americans find convenient and affordable healthcare. We offer solutions for consumers, employers, health plans, and anyone else who shares our desire to provide affordable prescriptions to all Americans.
We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company and industry. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of the best and brightest from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has a seat at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunities to excel.
With that said, research shows that women and other underrepresented groups apply only if they meet 100% of the criteria. GoodRx is committed to leveling the playing field, and we encourage women, people of color, those in the LGBTQ+ communities, and Veterans to apply for positions even if they don’t necessarily check every box outlined in the job description. Please still get in touch - we’d love to connect and see if you could be good for the role!
The Lead Pharmacy Counsel, vitaCare Prescription Services will join the fast growing GoodRx Legal Team and will be the primary legal advisor for Goodrx’s subsidiary vitaCare Prescription Services (VPS). 
This role closely collaborates with the executive leadership team, managers, pharmacists, and corporate Legal to ensure regulatory compliance for vitaCare Prescription Services. You will work as a key consultative partner to the team to review new and existing client offerings to ensure compliance, including serving as primary legal contact for VitaCare clients.
This role will also serve as the lead of HIPAA Privacy compliance, acting as the VPS HIPAA Privacy and Compliance Officer, and is responsible for successful accreditation, regulatory and operational compliance with enacted federal and state rules and regulations, pharmacovigilance, CMS regulations and other accrediting bodies, i.e., URAC. 
This role has oversight of the PDMP (prescription drug monitoring program), and ownership of client/partner audits, Board of Pharmacy audits, surveys, investigations, and regulatory inquiry responses. 

Duties & Responsibilities

• Serve as liaison to pharmacy staff and provide broad oversight for licensing, accreditation standards, federal and state rules and regulations, CMS regulations, audits and Board of Pharmacy inquiries, pharmacy specific accreditations held, and regulatory standards and their interpretations.
• Provide consultation to VPS leadership to identify and initiate improvements to ensure compliance with existing and evolving accreditation standards, CMS requirements, and federal and state laws, rules, and regulations.
• Maintain subject matter knowledge and expertise and enhance knowledge of the above standards, rules, and regulations that relate to pharmacy services.
• Develop and maintain working knowledge of additions and changes to standards, rules, and regulations that relate to pharmacy services, their interpretation, current trends and issues, and timelines for compliance.
• Lead risk mitigation efforts for all legal related issues.
• Complete gap analyses for compliance with additions and changes to the standards, rules, regulations and assess potential organizational impact.
• Develop and/or update policies, procedures, SOPs, and business rules documents whenever additions and changes to standards, rules, or regulations warrant.
• Reviews proposed regulatory changes for operational impacts and for planning purposes. 
• Participates in the development of policies and procedures related to applicable pharmacy accreditation standards and compliance with federal and state laws, rules, and regulations.
• Reviews business rules documentation, policies, and procedures in coordination with VPS leadership for new and existing programs to ensure regulatory compliance. 
• Develop and maintain current pharmacy accreditation, and facilitate compliance education, including training for new employees and ongoing for existing employees to ensure a constant state of readiness and compliance.
• Oversee processes to ensure no employee appears on the List of Excluded Individuals/Entities, the General Services Administration (GSA) list of debarred contractors, or State excluded providers list. 
• Conduct periodic compliance risk assessments and