General Counsel in Scottsdale, Arizona at Envita Medical Centers LLC
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General Counsel
Healthcare | Precision Medicine | Oncology | Telemedicine | Corporate Growth
ENVITA | Full-Time | On-Site | Scottsdale, Arizona
Join at a Defining Moment in Envita's Growth StoryTiming matters.
The right executive opportunities rarely come along at exactly the right time. This is one of them.
Envita currently employs approximately 360 team members and is entering one of the most significant growth phases in its history.
The organization has recently acquired a multi-million-dollar facility designed to significantly expand patient capacity and support future growth initiatives.
At the same time, leadership is actively developing and launching new healthcare verticals, expanding telemedicine capabilities, exploring strategic partnerships, and investing in innovative healthcare delivery models that will shape the future direction of the organization.
For the right General Counsel, this creates a rare opportunity to join at the onset of transformational growth rather than after the most important decisions have already been made.
You will help build the legal, regulatory, governance, compliance, risk management, telemedicine, and corporate infrastructure supporting the next chapter of Envita's evolution.
Few healthcare legal opportunities offer the ability to influence so many aspects of growth simultaneously.
Why This Role Is Career DefiningMost General Counsel opportunities involve stepping into an established legal function. This opportunity offers the chance to help architect the future of a rapidly growing healthcare organization at a pivotal moment in its evolution.
- Expansion of patient capacity
- Development of new healthcare verticals
- Telemedicine growth and multi-state expansion
- Strategic partnerships
- Potential acquisitions
- Precision medicine initiatives
- Oncology innovation
- Diagnostic and laboratory growth
- Corporate infrastructure scaling
- Enterprise risk management
For an attorney who enjoys growth, complexity, innovation, and executive influence, opportunities of this scale and timing are exceptionally rare.
Help Shape the Future of HealthcareMost General Counsel opportunities focus on protecting the status quo. This one is about helping build the future.
Envita is one of the most innovative and rapidly evolving organizations in precision medicine, integrative oncology, chronic disease treatment, diagnostics, telemedicine, and healthcare innovation.
Patients travel from across the United States and internationally seeking answers after exhausting conventional treatment options. They come to Envita searching for hope, innovation, and new possibilities.
As General Counsel, you will serve as the organization's senior legal authority and a trusted advisor to ownership and executive leadership, helping shape the legal, regulatory, compliance, governance, and growth strategies that will support the next chapter of Envita's evolution.
This is a rare opportunity for a healthcare attorney who wants to move beyond legal oversight and become a true executive partner to help drive innovation, expansion, patient impact, and organizational growth.
Why Executive Leaders Choose Envita- Help patients when traditional healthcare has run out of answers.
- Operate as a strategic executive partner to ownership and senior leadership.
- Help scale precision medicine, oncology, diagnostics, telemedicine, and future healthcare initiatives.
- Support expansion into new business verticals and emerging healthcare delivery models.
- Influence strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and organizational growth.
- Solve sophisticated legal, regulatory, operational, and business challenges.
- Help build an organization rather than simply maintain one.
Envita is a mission-driven healthcare organization focused on complex patient populations, including cancer, Lyme disease, chronic illness, and patients seeking innovative treatment approaches after conventional options have often fallen short.
The organization operates in a complex and highly regulated environment that includes physician services, precision medicine, diagnostics, laboratory-related considerations, telemedicine, patient care delivery, provider relationships, corporate growth, and emerging healthcare verticals.
Envita's next stage of growth requires a General Counsel who can combine sophisticated healthcare legal expertise with executive-level judgment, business acumen, operational pragmatism, and a strong commitment to protecting the organization while enabling innovation.
The OpportunityThe General Counsel serves as the organization's senior legal authority and strategic legal advisor.
This role is intentionally weighted approximately 60% healthcare regulatory, compliance, provider, and medical legal matters and 40% corporate, tax, governance, transactional, and commercial legal matters.
The successful candidate will operate as both a healthcare regulatory expert and a strategic business advisor capable of balancing innovation, growth, compliance, and organizational objectives.
Beyond managing legal risk, this leader will help enable organizational growth by supporting the legal infrastructure required for telemedicine expansion, new healthcare verticals, strategic partnerships, acquisitions, physician relationships, diagnostics, and precision medicine initiatives.
This individual will work directly with executive leadership and serve as a trusted advisor on legal, regulatory, compliance, operational, and strategic matters affecting the organization.
What Success Looks LikeTimeframe | Strategic Focus | Success Measures |
First 6 Months | Establish executive partnership and legal infrastructure. Build trusted relationships with executive leadership, physicians, and operational leaders. Conduct a comprehensive assessment of legal, regulatory, compliance, governance, telemedicine, and risk management exposure. | Enterprise legal assessment completed. Executive legal roadmap delivered. Priority legal initiatives identified and launched. Trusted advisor relationships established. |
Within 12 Months | Strengthen compliance and enable growth. Improve contract review, contract management, healthcare compliance infrastructure, provider agreement structures, governance, and risk management practices. Support telemedicine growth and strategic initiatives. | Improved compliance readiness. Reduced legal exposure. Improved contract turnaround times. Successful support of key growth initiatives. |
Within 24 Months | Become a strategic architect of organizational growth. Support acquisitions, strategic partnerships, telemedicine and multi-state expansion, new vertical launches, scalable legal infrastructure, and long-term sustainable growth. | Successful support of transformational growth initiatives. Strong regulatory standing. Scalable legal infrastructure aligned with growth strategy. Recognized executive leadership partner. |
- Strengthen Enterprise Legal and Compliance Infrastructure
- Provide Executive Legal Leadership and Strategic Counsel
- Support Telemedicine Expansion and New Vertical Growth
- Strengthen Provider, Physician, and Regulatory Compliance Programs
- Enable Strategic Partnerships, Acquisitions, and Corporate Growth
- Protect the Organization Through Enterprise Risk Management
Serve as the organization's primary legal advisor regarding healthcare regulatory compliance.
Provide guidance on:
- HIPAA and HITECH
- Stark Law
- Federal and State Anti-Kickback Statutes
- False Claims Act
- Medicare and Medicaid regulations
- Corporate Practice of Medicine laws
- Telemedicine regulations
- Multi-state healthcare delivery regulations
- Laboratory and diagnostic testing regulations
- Privacy and data security laws
- State healthcare licensing requirements
- FDA and FTC-related healthcare advertising considerations
Lead responses to:
- State Medical Board inquiries
- Professional licensing investigations
- Administrative actions
- Physician disciplinary matters
- Credentialing and privileging disputes
Advise physicians, providers, and executives regarding professional liability exposure and regulatory obligations.
Patient Complaints & Risk Management- Review and respond to significant patient complaints and legal escalations.
- Assess malpractice exposure and coordinate defense strategies with outside counsel when necessary.
- Advise leadership on patient safety, documentation, informed consent, and risk mitigation practices.
- Develop, strengthen, and maintain healthcare compliance programs.
- Conduct internal legal reviews and investigations.
- Provide training to physicians, executives, and staff regarding healthcare regulatory requirements.
- Monitor regulatory changes affecting healthcare operations.
- Structure physician arrangements and compensation models.
- Review management agreements, employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, and referral relationships for regulatory compliance.
- Conduct healthcare-specific legal due diligence for acquisitions, partnerships, and strategic initiatives.
- Advise on telemedicine regulations, multi-state licensure considerations, virtual care delivery models, and related compliance obligations.
- Support legal infrastructure for telemedicine growth, remote patient engagement, privacy, data security, and healthcare delivery across jurisdictions.
- Help leadership evaluate regulatory risk and operational requirements associated with digital health and telemedicine expansion.
- Advise executive leadership and ownership on legal risks and strategic decisions.
- Support board governance, corporate records, resolutions, and organizational structure.
- Manage legal aspects of corporate growth initiatives.
Draft, review, negotiate, and redline:
- Vendor agreements
- Service agreements
- Strategic partnership agreements
- Licensing agreements
- Employment agreements
- Real estate and lease agreements
- Technology and software contracts
- Business development transactions
- Ensure favorable contractual terms and risk allocation.
- Lead contract negotiations with external parties.
Advise on legal aspects of corporate tax matters and organizational structuring.
Collaborate with tax advisors, CPAs, and external counsel on:
- Tax-efficient business structures
- Corporate reorganizations
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Asset protection strategies
- Multi-entity governance structures
Identify legal risks associated with tax planning strategies.
Litigation & Risk Management- Manage outside counsel relationships.
- Oversee litigation strategy and dispute resolution.
- Evaluate legal risks across the organization and recommend proactive solutions.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned healthcare attorney who can confidently navigate complex healthcare regulations, defend and respond to medical board inquiries, oversee patient-related legal risk, support telemedicine expansion, advise on strategic growth initiatives, and simultaneously function as a trusted executive advisor capable of helping leadership make sound business decisions while maintaining regulatory excellence.
This individual should be comfortable operating as the primary legal authority for a rapidly growing healthcare organization entering a transformational phase of growth and expansion.
Target Candidate BackgroundsStrong consideration will be given to candidates with experience supporting:
- Oncology organizations
- Specialty healthcare organizations
- Precision medicine organizations
- Diagnostic laboratories
- Telemedicine organizations
- Digital health companies
- Multi-state healthcare organizations
- Physician practice management organizations
- Integrative or functional medicine organizations
- Complex healthcare enterprises with multiple legal, regulatory, and operational verticals
- General Counsel
- Chief Legal Officer
- Deputy General Counsel
- Associate General Counsel
- Senior Healthcare Counsel
- Vice President, Legal Affairs
- Healthcare Regulatory Counsel
- Healthcare Compliance Counsel with executive advisory experience
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school.
- Active membership in at least one U.S. State Bar in good standing.
- Minimum 7 years of healthcare law experience, with significant experience advising healthcare organizations, physician groups, hospitals, laboratories, specialty clinics, telemedicine organizations, or other healthcare entities.
- Demonstrated expertise in HIPAA/HITECH, Stark Law, Federal and State Anti-Kickback Statutes, healthcare compliance programs, Medical Board matters, professional licensing issues, healthcare investigations, and healthcare contracting.
- Experience responding to regulatory inquiries and government investigations.
- Strong contract drafting, negotiation, and redlining experience.
- Experience advising executive leadership teams.
- 10+ years of healthcare legal experience strongly preferred.
- 15+ years of healthcare legal experience is highly desirable for candidates who have supported complex healthcare growth environments.
- Prior experience serving as General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, Associate General Counsel, or Senior Healthcare Counsel.
- Experience with precision medicine, oncology, laboratories, diagnostics, telemedicine, or integrative healthcare organizations.
- Knowledge of corporate tax structures and business transactions.
- Experience with mergers, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and complex corporate structures.
- Experience managing outside litigation counsel.
- Certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC) or similar credential is a plus.
- Exceptional legal judgment
- Strategic business thinking
- Executive presence
- Strong negotiation skills
- Regulatory expertise
- Healthcare compliance depth
- Risk assessment and mitigation
- Ability to operate independently
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to balance legal compliance with business objectives
- Ability to support innovation while protecting the organization
- Trusted advisor mindset
- Intellectual curiosity and comfort with complexity
- Competitive executive-level base salary
- Performance bonus opportunity
- Equity participation consideration, if applicable
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Paid time off
- Professional development and continuing legal education support
Most General Counsel opportunities focus on protecting established organizations. This opportunity offers the chance to help build one.
You will join Envita at a defining moment in its evolution, helping support new verticals, telemedicine expansion, increased patient capacity, strategic growth initiatives, precision medicine, diagnostics, and healthcare innovation while serving as a trusted advisor to executive leadership.
For the right attorney, this is more than a legal position. It is an opportunity to help influence the future direction of a rapidly growing healthcare organization while helping expand access to innovative care for patients seeking answers beyond conventional medicine.
Executive SummaryEnvita is seeking a General Counsel who can operate at the intersection of healthcare law, executive strategy, regulatory complexity, corporate growth, and patient impact.
The successful candidate will bring the legal depth required to protect the organization, the executive judgment required to advise leadership, and the business orientation required to help Envita scale responsibly during a major phase of growth.
This is a rare opportunity for a highly capable healthcare attorney to join at the onset of transformational growth and help shape the legal infrastructure behind one of the most unique healthcare organizations in the market.