Job Description

Job Category: Legal, Quality, Compliance
Degree Level: Bachelor's Degree
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Schedule: Days: M-F
Job Location Type: [In-person, Hybrid, Remote]
Your experience matters
At Lifepoint Health, we are committed to empowering and supporting a diverse and determined workforce who can drive quality, scalability, and significant impact across our hospitals and communities. As a member of the Health Support Center (HSC) team, you'll support those that are in our facilities who are interfacing and providing care to our patients and community members to positively impact our mission of making communities healthier .
More about our team
The Legal Services Consultant is responsible for management and provision of services related to contracts, regulatory compliance, and other legal needs for Lifepoint-affiliated hospitals and the Health Support Center (HSC), including Legal Department initiatives to deliver and improve those services, and demonstrates the Core Values and the High Five Guiding Principles foundational to LifePoint.
Support LifePoint facilities and HSC corporate departments on matters related to referral source agreements and other agreements that require pre-approval, including, but not limited to drafting agreements; uploading Process Manager requests into MediTract as needed by facilities and/or HSC corporate departments; and providing MediTract and policy training to both facilities and HSC corporate departments for new and existing MediTract users.
This is a part-time PRN position
How you'll contribute
A Legal Services Consultant who excels in this role:

• Serve as the primary contact for hospital and HSC contract, compliance, and policy-related questions.
• Address and/or triage hospital and Division leadership questions to ensure proposed facility vendor relationships are in line with HSC directives and business goals.
• Assist HSC attorneys and HSC department staff on an as-needed basis with HSC global projects and hospital initiatives.
• Draft, analyze, and review facility and HSC corporate department contracts related to facility and/or HSC operations; use independent judgement to determine appropriate methods of revision to aid facilities in keeping current contracts compliant with regulations and Company policies.
• Analyze and review submitted documentation, including compensation terms and fair market value support, proformas, and other required supporting document(s) to ensure legal and policy compliance.
• Serve as subject matter expert over contracts administration function and proactively drive progressive change through efficient processes and use of technology, including, but not limited to managing the Legal SharePoint site, ServiceNow, and other systems that are rolled out at the HSC from time to time.
• Oversee and manage 120-day contract expiration reports for each hospital to ensure legal and policy compliance, including review of contract history to advise hospital leaders and counsel of pending critical action dates such as expiring FMV or other directives.
• Manage existing MediTract reports and create new MediTract reports when requested.
• Train and provide ongoing support to local hospital contract administrators in the use of the contract management system, LPNT-required documents and policies, and contract drafting using Company templates.
• Oversee and manage the complete life cycle process for contract renewal, amendments, new agreements, and terminations with each assigned hospital in order to keep all contracts current and compliant in the contract management system.
• Assess agreement terms to determine appropriate business leaders and subject matter experts to be included in contract review and negotiations, which includes revision of the terms of the agreement to ensure potential vendor relationship(s) are in line with service line directives and company business goals.
• Collaborate with various departments at the Health Support Center (HSC) to integrate new and existing contracts into the contract management solution.
• Manage day-to-day activities associated with LifePoint's contract management solution and expand its scope and usage to ensure contract management best practices are being followed, including Technical Review Board (TRB) approval and other HSC department policies.
• Assistance with and analysis of integration of newly acquired hospital(s) and hospital systems into contract management database, including establishing access, codifying existing contracts, and uploading of information. Post-integration, monitor newly acquired hospitals' agreements for potential audit and policy issues.
• Adhere to all LifePoint legal and other department policies.
• Participate in asset acquisitions and divestitures, including assisting with onboarding of new facilities and analyzing and compiling due diligence materials for acquisitions and divestitures.
• Respond to and triage legal requests in appropriate priority and communicate plans for addressing needs to hospital leadership and assigned lawyer.
• Monitor and report potential violations related to contracting and assisting in tracking reportable events and applicable Stark exceptions to ensure that regulatory limitation on use is not exceeded.
• Monitor operational trends at LifePoint to develop processes, templates, and training, utilizing available technologies to improve and promote efficiency, consistency, and compliance with regulatory and business requirements.

What we're looking for
Applicants should have a Bachelor's Degree or any equivalent combination of education, experience, and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities with a minimum of 5 years related legal experience
EEOC Statement
"Lifepoint Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Lifepoint Health is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment."
You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.
About Us: Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.
About the Team: We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.

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