Overview
Regulatory Attorney Jobs in United States at Robert Half
Title: Regulatory Attorney
Company: Robert Half
Location: United States
National healthcare organization is seeking a versatile Regulatory Attorney with strong healthcare delivery experience to join the legal team. This hands-on role includes supporting hospital operations, advising on a range of regulatory and contracting matters, and working in a fast-paced environment where you will handle diverse legal questions related to patient care delivery, compliance, and provider operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Advise hospital teams and operations stakeholders on regulatory and compliance matters impacting care delivery, including clinical, pharmacy, privacy, medical staff, and credentialing issues.
- Manage and draft/review routine contracts, including physician, allied health, and vendor agreements.
- Support transactional work, particularly due diligence efforts during deals, affiliations, or strategic partnerships.
- Address union-related and allied health practitioner issues (such as in a unionized environment).
- Provide legal counsel on complex care delivery topics for university health systems, community hospitals, and medical schools.
- Field a broad range of incoming operational questions from clinical, pharmacy, and administrative teams.
- Stay current with regulatory changes impacting healthcare delivery, including FDA, clinical operations, and privacy (HIPAA) requirements.
- Actively participate as a collaborative team member, maintaining composure and professionalism when responding to urgent operational inquiries.
Qualifications:
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited U.S. law school.
- Must hold an active California Bar license.
- Minimum 3-5+ years of regulatory experience advising hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, or community hospitals.
- Demonstrated knowledge of healthcare regulations (e.g., FDA, HIPAA, Stark, Anti-Kickback, Medicare/Medicaid compliance).
- Hands-on experience supporting care delivery settings—such as hospital operations, clinical, medical staff, credentialing, and pharmacy.
- Ability to manage contracting for low-level and routine agreements.
- Experience with allied health practitioners or working within unionized healthcare environments is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with due diligence in healthcare transactions and M&A support.
- Community hospital, academic medical center, or multistate experience (CA, HI, NV, Mid-Atlantic) strongly preferred.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Flexible, team-oriented, and able to calmly manage multiple competing priorities.
