Health Care Attorney; Transactional

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Best Best & Krieger LLP is a nationally recognized law firm with nearly 250 attorneys across California, Oregon, and Washington, D.C., delivering client‑service oriented solutions to a variety of legal issues for public agencies, businesses, and individuals.

Our health care team serves hospitals, health care districts, clinics, physician groups, vendors, and other providers. The firm advises on provider and vendor contracting, regulatory and compliance issues, acquisitions, affiliations, restructurings, health care leases, real estate transactions, privacy and security of health information, managed care and health plan contracting, and payer‑provider relationships.

In this role, you will draft and negotiate provider and vendor agreements for hospitals, clinics, and physician groups, and structure transactions to ensure compliance with federal and state fraud and abuse laws, licensing requirements, and corporate practice of medicine restrictions.

• Draft and negotiate physician services agreements, medical director agreements, call coverage agreements, employment and independent contractor agreements, vendor contracts, business associate agreements, and other operational health care contracts.
• Draft and advise on provider acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures, and related transaction documents.
• Structure transactions to ensure compliance with the Stark Law, Anti‑Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, and state analogs, as well as licensing and corporate practice of medicine requirements.
• Advise clients on a broad spectrum of operational, compliance, and transactional health care matters.

• 5+ years of recent, hands‑on health care transactional experience at a law firm or in‑house with a provider, with significant responsibility for drafting and negotiating physician and other professional services agreements (including medical director agreements); vendor and operations agreements (e.g., management services, billing/collections, telehealth, procurement); entity formation and transaction documents for acquisitions, sales, affiliations, and joint ventures.
• Deep familiarity with federal and state fraud and abuse laws (Stark, Anti‑Kickback Statute, False Claims Act) and ability to identify risk and craft compliant structures.
• Excellent drafting, project management, and client service skills.
• Bar admission in California.

• Knowledge of HIPAA, EMTALA, and corporate practice of medicine rules.
• Experience with hospital operations.
• Experience representing public agencies or public health systems.

The reasonably expected pay scale for this position seeking an attorney with 5 or more years of experience is $137,000 - $200,000. The actual salary within that range will depend on the selected candidate’s years of practice and experience.

Best Best & Krieger is an equal opportunity employer.