Job Description

Today, SCA Health has grown to 11,000 teammates who care for 1 million patients each year and support physician specialists holistically in many aspects of patient care. Together, our teammates create value in specialty care by aligning physicians, health plans and health systems around a common goal: delivering on the quadruple aim of high-quality outcomes and a better experience for patients and providers, all at a lower total cost of care.

As part of Optum, we participate in an integrated care delivery system that enables us to support our partners as they navigate a complex healthcare environment, Only SCA Health has a dynamic group of physician-driven, specialty care businesses that allows us to customize solutions, no matter the need or challenge:

• We connect patients to physicians in new and differentiated ways as part of Optum and with our new Specialty Management Solutions business.
• We have pioneered a physician-led, multi-site model of practice solutions that restores physician agency by aligning incentives to support growth and transition to value-based care.
• We lead the industry in value-based payment solutions through our Global 1 bundled payment convener, that provides easy predictable billing to patients.
• We help physicians address everything beyond surgical procedures, including anesthesia and ancillary service lines.

The new SCA Health represents who we are today and where we are going—and the growing career opportunities for YOU.

Bring us your experience, your head for strategy, your strength with relationships and your eye for opportunity. In return we offer an unmatched place to grow and develop your career among a richly diverse group of businesses driven by the power and stability of a leading health care organization. Come help us heal and strengthen the health care system as you do your life's best work.

The position of Corporate Counsel will represent SCA Health and its affiliates in a variety of legal matters. This candidate will be remote or hybrid preferably in the area of either Birmingham, Alabama or Pasadena, California.

The candidate will assist in providing accurate, constructive and timely legal advice and support for the groups of surgical facilities across the U.S. This position is a generalist role, with a focus on corporate, contract, and health care law as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Advise facilities across the U.S., advising on various legal matters which arise from time to time in the context of the management and ownership of outpatient surgical facilities jointly owned with physicians, hospitals, and/or health plans
• Draft, review and negotiate contracts, including partnership agreements, limited liability company (“LLC”) operating agreements, and facility vendor agreements
• Provide legal support and advice on handling partnership, LLC, joint venture and corporate transactions, including repurchase of ownership interests from physicians and amendments to limited partnership agreements and LLC operating agreements
• Coordinate and assist in managing outside counsel on various matters, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, regulatory compliance, antitrust and real estate
• Assist with other projects as needed, such as researching state law, diligence on investment transactions, and discovery requests

Required Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor degree
• License to practice law in at least one state
• Three to four years of experience practicing law
• Experience drafting and negotiating contracts
• Experience advising clients and handling multiple projects in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment
• Exceptional drafting skills, with experience drafting contract language that is clear, concise and easily understood

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in health care or with clients that are health care providers such as surgery centers, hospitals or physician groups
• Experience with corporate transactions and work with partnerships, LLCs, and other joint ventures

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