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Job Description

As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will act as the Business Privacy Officer for the Health Care Business (Aetna and its affiliates) and provide strategic legal counsel to internal business partners with respect to Federal and state healthcare and consumer privacy regulations and laws. You will proactively advise business partners on a wide variety of matters and work collaboratively with other attorneys and partners on matters related to privacy legal and regulatory compliance.

You will identify business and legal risks and provide solutions which balance legal issues and business objectives. You will be expected to develop a keen understanding of the business and operational goals of assigned internal clients and work diligently to develop and maintain positive relationships with clients at all levels of the organization.

As a subject matter expert, you will help will support various parts of the CVS Health enterprise, including: Aetna and its affiliates, well as other cross-enterprise teams and activities. Responsibilities may include advising on privacy issues related to handling member information associated with our health plan operations and activities, appropriate use of member information related to our provision of care management services, obligations related to interoperability and transparency, product development, contracting, and/or other health plan operations activities. You will recommend practical and sound advice to internal clients on legal issues related to business objectives and take an active role in driving projects to final result.

As part of the Legal team, you will gain experience working with a dynamic in-house legal department and play a key role in supporting the business. This role will include managing other colleagues on the health care business privacy team.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of 7-10 years of legal experience focused on health care privacy law, preferably involving health plan, in a sophisticated or complex environment.
• Deep subject matter expertise of privacy laws such as HIPAA and CCPA.
  Ability to synthesize and apply multiple regulatory frameworks to business activities.
• Demonstrated analytical skills and strong legal project management and facilitation skills.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively, provide leadership, influence organization behavior and create alignment across disparate groups.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Admitted to practice law in good standing in at least one state.

COVID Requirements

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

CVS Health requires certain colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, religious belief, or other legally recognized reasons that prevents them from being vaccinated.

You are required to have received at least one COVID-19 shot prior to your first day of employment and to provide proof of your vaccination status or apply for a reasonable accommodation within the first 10 days of your employment. Please note that in some states and roles, you may be required to provide proof of full vaccination or an approved reasonable accommodation before you can begin to actively work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of healthcare laws and regulations including one or more of the following: Federal and State False Claims Act; Federal and State Anti-Kickback Statute; State insurance and healthcare law; Affordable Care Act; Medicare and Medicaid
• Experience as in-house counsel.
• Experience supporting health plan operations or businesses providing regulated services
• Experience with aspects of healthcare related to provision of health plan services.
• Experience drafting and negotiating complex services agreements.
• Ability to collaborate effectively and work as a team player.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, initiative, and drive

Education

Doctorate (Juris Doctor)

Business Overview

Bring your heart to CVS Health
Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.

Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.
We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day.
CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.