B2B - Fractional Healthcare Counsel

3 weeks, 5 days ago
Contract
Senior
Sales and Business Development
CookUnity

CookUnity

CookUnity is a prepared meal delivery service by award-winning chefs, offering flexible meal plans nationwide. With hundreds of gourmet options, customers can choose meals based on their preferences and dietary needs, enjoying restaurant-quality dishes...

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure
251-1K
Founded 2015
$1M raised

Description

  • Serve as the day-to-day healthcare legal advisor to the B2B team on deals, product launches, and operational questions involving healthcare counterparties and employer health programs.
  • Draft, review, and negotiate B2B agreements including master services agreements, statements of work, BAAs, data use agreements, and program-specific addenda.
  • Lead HIPAA compliance for the B2B line, including BAA structuring, PHI use and disclosure analysis, data flow review, and safeguards coordination with security, product, and engineering teams.
  • Advise on Food is Medicine, Medically Tailored Meals, supplemental benefits, Medicare Advantage SSBCI and SNP frameworks, Medicaid 1115 waivers, and related healthcare-funded meal programs.
  • Assess exposure under fraud and abuse laws such as the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark, and beneficiary inducement laws, and escalate complex issues as needed.
  • Support state licensure, telehealth-adjacent, and food-as-medicine regulatory issues as they arise.
  • Build scalable legal infrastructure such as templates, playbooks, training, and internal guidance for the B2B team.
  • Partner with the General Counsel on escalations, novel issues, and executive risk framing.

Requirements

  • J.D. and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, in good standing.
  • Minimum 5 years of post-J.D. experience focused on healthcare regulatory, healthcare transactional, and general commercial matters.
  • Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills in a commercial context.
  • Demonstrated expertise in HIPAA and HITECH, including Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules.
  • Experience drafting and negotiating BAAs, advising on PHI use cases, and counseling on incident response.
  • Working familiarity with Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits (SSBCI / SNP), Medicaid managed care, 1115 waivers, Food is Medicine / Medically Tailored Meals frameworks, or state insurance and licensure regimes.
  • Comfort operating as a fractional, embedded legal partner with a high degree of responsiveness, organization, and independent triage.
  • Excellent judgment on when to decide, when to escalate, and when to bring in outside specialists.
  • Preferred: law firm training in healthcare regulatory or healthcare transactions and prior in-house experience at a healthcare company, payor, provider, digital health company, PBM, MA plan, or similar regulated organization.
  • Preferred: experience supporting a B2B sales motion, familiarity with state privacy laws such as CCPA/CPRA and the Washington My Health My Data Act, or prior experience advising a food, nutrition, or consumer health company.

Benefits

  • Independent contractor (1099) engagement with CookUnity, Inc.
  • Approximately 10–20 hours per week with flexibility to scale up during deal cycles and down during quieter periods.
  • Fully remote within the United States.
  • Occasional video meetings during U.S. business hours.
  • Competitive hourly rate commensurate with experience.

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