Chief Legal Officer
Description
MEDvidi is a telepsychiatry platform delivering psychiatric evaluation, medication management, and ongoing behavioral health care to patients in approximately 35 states. We operate through a management services organization supporting affiliated professional corporations, and our clinicians treat conditions that require careful, closely governed prescribing, including controlled substances.
The work is regulated at every layer: federal controlled-substance law, state medical practice and scope-of-practice rules, health information privacy, consumer-protection and advertising rules, and payer requirements. Getting that right is not an overlay on the business. It is the business.
About the Role
We are hiring a Chief Legal Officer to own legal and regulatory strategy for the company. This is a hands-on executive role. You will be the senior legal voice on prescribing architecture, entity structure, privacy, marketing, litigation, and workforce questions, and you will do much of that work yourself while building the function around you.
The role is scoped as Chief Legal Officer only. The Chief Compliance Officer function is separately designated, so that legal strategy and compliance reporting remain distinct. We have chosen that structure deliberately, consistent with OIG and DOJ guidance on compliance program design.
- J.D. and active good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, with eligibility for in-house or registered in-house counsel status in your state of residence.
- 12+ years of combined firm and in-house practice, including at least 5 years advising healthcare providers, digital health companies, or health systems.
- Primary responsibility, not adjacent exposure, for controlled-substance regulatory advice, including the Ryan Haight Act telemedicine exceptions and the post-public-health-emergency landscape.
- Direct experience drafting and negotiating MSO and friendly-PC structures, and the ability to defend that structure against a corporate practice of medicine or fee-splitting challenge.
- HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule fluency applied to a real engineering and vendor environment, not only to policy documents.
- Healthcare marketing and consumer-protection fluency for a direct-to-consumer business: FTC advertising and substantiation standards, TCPA, state medical board advertising rules, and HIPAA marketing constraints.
- Ability to structure clinician and vendor compensation under the Anti-Kickback Statute and EKRA without routine outside counsel dependence.
- Experience carrying a government inquiry, such as an agency subpoena, civil investigative demand, board action, or licensing investigation, from receipt to resolution.
- Multi-state employment law experience, including contractor classification under both the FLSA economic realities test and state ABC tests.
- A record of building: policies, playbooks, or a legal function stood up where none existed.
Would be a plus
- Prior General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer role at a healthcare company between 100 and 1,000 employees.
- Behavioral health, psychiatry, or substance use disorder treatment experience, including 42 C.F.R. Part 2 where applicable.
- Government service at DEA, HHS OIG, a U.S. Attorney's Office, a state Attorney General's office, or a state medical or pharmacy board.
- Commercial payer contracting experience, particularly through a transition from cash-pay to insurance-reimbursed care.
- Defense experience in healthcare privacy class actions, including tracking-technology claims.
- AI governance experience across clinical tooling and vendor diligence, including Software as a Medical Device and clinical-decision-support analysis, Section 1557 algorithmic nondiscrimination, and emerging state requirements for AI in mental-health care.
- A current point of view on the DEA and HHS telemedicine controlled-substance-prescribing landscape and the forthcoming special-registration framework.
- Certification such as Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) or Certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC).