Associate General Counsel, Healthcare

Your Growth You’ll work in our Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., New Jersey or New York office as part of our Legal Department. The Legal Department is a diverse and dynamic team within our firm. The Legal Department provides comprehensive legal services to our firm’s leadership, consultants and support staff throughout the world.

You will report to the Managing Counsel of the Dedicated Practice Counsel team. In addition to interacting with our client serving professionals supporting the Healthcare Practice, you will work closely with other Legal teams, as well as colleagues in our Risk, Compliance and other functions within McKinsey.

Your ImpactMcKinsey’s Healthcare Practice serves leading private and public healthcare institutions to identify innovative ways to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges.

We are at the forefront of making healthcare better, more affordable, and more accessible for millions of people around the world. This AGC role primarily involves advising and supporting McKinsey’s consultant serving Healthcare clients in North America.

This role encompasses a broad range of responsibilities, including:
• Providing solution-oriented legal advice to McKinsey Healthcare business teams, including advising on regulatory risks, as well as other legal, professional and reputational risks, associated with Healthcare projects
• Reviewing, advising on and negotiating statements of work and a variety of other agreements with Healthcare clients, including consulting, license, Business Associate and collaboration agreements
• Advising and reviewing work product provided to our Healthcare clients and developing internal policies, guidelines, and best practices related to Healthcare projects
• Serving as thought partner to legal department leaders and counselor to Healthcare practice leaders, including providing guidance on important legal developments, including new and emerging federal/state/local healthcare regulatory requirements
• Developing and sharing expertise with others, including disseminating best practices, playbooks and templates
• Participate in development, interpretation and communication of internal policies and guidelines (e.g., HCP engagement, patient services, physician referrals, pricing, reimbursement and coding)
• Collaborating with Compliance, Risk and Internal Audit on risk management and process improvements and adherence to legal requirements
• Establishing relationships with and supervising outside legal advisors as needed
• Providing support on other Legal department, firm and practice initiatives and priorities as needed

You will be expected to work with colleagues on projects supporting broader McKinsey and Legal Department specific initiatives, such as contributing to knowledge sharing by developing reference materials, trainings, and playbooks.

Your qualifications and skills
• 5+ years of Healthcare experience at a law firm or in-house
• Extensive experience working with providers, including experience with large integrated delivery systems, value-based care arrangements, coding, and Medicare FFS billing regulations
• Expertise in US healthcare laws (e.g., Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, Stark Law, HIPAA, Medicaid, Medicare)
• Transactional experience with stakeholders across the healthcare value chain, including academic medical centers, health insurers, health systems, hospitals, integrated care organizations, pharmacy benefit managers, physician groups, biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors and animal and consumer health companies
• JD, University degree, and excellent academic record required
• Excellent written and oral communications skills
• Excellent drafting and negotiation skills
• Highly autonomous and collaborative
• Confident team player with strong leadership and influencing skills
• Self-starter with ability to drive tasks and projects to completion
• Impeccable business and risk management judgment and ethics
• Ability to develop relationships and network at all levels within and outside McKinsey
• Enjoys working in a challenging, fast-paced, dynamic professional services environment with ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Communicates complex ideas effectively

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