Job Summary

The Associate Director of Legal Affairs: provides support to ensure that TACHC achieves its mission to strengthen and support community health centers to speak with a unified voice and drive healthcare transformation by exemplifying innovation, access and equity; assists the Director of Legal Affairs to provide in-house counsel as well as advice to TACHC member health centers; to negotiate, draft and/or review TACHC and its corporate affiliates’ legal documents, particularly those related to value-based care, as well as uniform contracts, policies and other templates for TACHC’s member health centers; to design and implement trainings for TACHC staff and member health centers; and to conduct health policy research, analysis and drafting of related briefs and legislative proposals on behalf of TACHC and the member health centers the association serves.

Duties and Responsibilities

Internal operations

o Advises TACHC and its controlled corporate affiliates on a wide range of matters, including legislative, regulatory, transactional, governance, and business matters.

Drafts, reviews, interprets, and negotiated contracts and legal documents, particularly those related to the TACHC Clinically Integrated Network (CIN), TACHC Accountable Care Organization (ACO), and TACHC Health Center Controlled Network (HCCN), including entity formation documents, vendor contracts, managed care agreements, and grant awards.
Advises the TACHC Board, Value-Based Care Committee, and relevant staff on issues related to the TACHC CIN, TACHC ACO, and TACHC HCCN.
Drafts and reviews TACHC and affiliate policies, procedures, and organizational documents for compliance with the law, as assigned by the Director of Legal Affairs.
Prepares materials for the Bylaws Committee of the TACHC Board of Directors and the Purchasing Group Board.
Supports special projects for TACHC including the planning and execution for TACHC’s Annual Conference.
Assists with the selection, retention, management, and evaluation of outside counsel when appropriate for both TACHC and TACHC member health centers.
Member services
Assists in drafting and updating template legal documents for member health centers, including uniform contracts, sample policies and procedures, and position statements, especially through the TACHC Health Center Handbook.
Designs and implements information and training sessions for various health center or health center-related audiences regarding compliance with federal and state laws, regulations, and policy.
Fields a wide variety of legal questions from member health centers to enable compliant and efficient health center operations in areas including governance matters, nonprofit law, basic finance and billing questions, fraud and abuse prevention, grant requirements, hospital and other affiliations, managed care contracting, informed consent issues, quality assurance, peer review, Federal Torts Claims Act and malpractice matters, risk management, Medicaid and other government program requirements, patients’ rights, pharmacy, privacy and security matters, health information exchange matters, vendor contracts, and employment law, referring member health centers to outside counsel when appropriate.
Fields legal questions from outside stakeholders, including state agencies.
Provides support to TACHC networks, workgroups, and collaboratives.
Maintains a self-development program to increase personal effectiveness and broaden knowledge and skill.
Policy and advocacy
Conducts research and policy analysis on a wide variety of topics relevant to health centers.
Drafts memoranda and comment letters regarding TACHC’s positions on legal and policy matters.
Assists with the drafting of legislation, riders, and amendments, as needed for TACHC’s legislative and regulatory proposals.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Required

At least four years of experience in the practice of law
Excellent organizational skills, including project management and time management skills
Excellent writing and editing skills
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Excellent research and analysis skills
Attention to detail and accuracy
Knowledge of state and federal health care law and policy
Sound professional judgement
Excellent critical thinking and evaluation skills
Ability to participate and communicate effectively within and between teams and collaborate in order to facilitate innovation

Preferred

At least three years of experience in the practice of law in Texas
Knowledge of nonprofit and health law and policy
Understanding of Primary Care Association and health center law and policy
Spanish language skills

Credentials and Experience

Required

Law degree
Active license to practice law in Texas

Preferred

Value-based care experience to include establishing quality metrics and payment arrangements (i.e. shared savings, payment attribution, etc.)
Managed care contracting experience
Health center experience
Legislative experience
Nonprofit experience
Corporate governance experience
Training and outreach experience

Special Requirements

Position requires the ability to follow constantly changing health care, nonprofit and health center laws; gather, condense, analyze and communicate a great deal of sometimes conflicting information to TACHC, health centers and policymakers; address differing levels of knowledge among participants in training sessions and recipients of legal advice; respond to legal questions and requests from TACHC’s various departments as well as TACHC’s member health centers simultaneously and often in a short timeframe; assist TACHC staff in preparation of large trainings and conferences; and address other tasks as assigned by the Director of Legal Affairs.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $150,000.00 - $175,000.00 per year

Experience:

Medical law: 1 year (Required)
Community health center: 1 year (Preferred)
Medicare: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

Bar (Required)

Ability to Commute:

Austin, TX 78735 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

Austin, TX 78735: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Austin, TX 78735

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Associate Director of Legal Affairs