Litigation Paralegal
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Job Location:
Ballwin, MO - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
10 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
EyeCare Partners is the nations leading provider of clinically integrated eye care. Our national network of over 300 ophthalmologists and 700 optometrists provides a lifetime of care to our patients with a mission to enhance vision advance eye care and improve lives. Based in St. Louis Missouri over 650 ECP-affiliated practice locations provide care in 18 states and 80 markets providing services that span the eye care continuum. For more information visit.
*Hybrid position* We are looking for a litigation paralegal to join EyeCare Partners growing legal department. The ideal candidate enjoys working with people and independently managing projects and day-to-day tasks and has experience in an in-house legal department preferably with a background in dispute resolution litigation and/or healthcare.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):
Incident Management and General Duties
- Developing an in-depth understanding of ECPs business unitsand insurance policies
- Coordinate claims reporting and monitoring with carriers
- Conduct legal research and factual investigations and respond to internal inquiries regarding patient complaints requests and issues
- Collect incident information and provide guidance and direction to practice staff and doctors as well as senior management on incident-related matters
- Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned
Litigation Grievances and Subpoenas
- Responding to medical grievances from various state and governmental authorities (e.g. Attorney General Consumer Complaints Payor Standard of Care Inquiries State Medical Boards Better Business Bureau etc.)
- Review and revise draft answers discovery requests responses to discovery basic motions and similar pleadings under the direction of an attorney
- Perform administrative duties including coordinating litigation support functions managing case dockets documents and files
- Managing subpoena and discovery responses as well as coordinating provider appearances and affidavits in lieu of appearances as appropriate
- Independently analyzing and responding appropriately to escalated third party requests for medical records with support and guidance from attorneys as necessary
Job Specifications:
- Ability to prioritize work tasks to provide high-quality work product to meet internal and external deadlines
- Ability to work cross-functionally and manage multiple priorities
- Ability to learn new areas quickly take ownership of projects and work independently
- Ability to work efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced matrixed environment and ability to execute despite ambiguity
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills teamwork abilities attention to detail and strong organizational skills
- Strong proficiency working with Microsoft Office products (Outlook Word and Excel) SmartSheets and Adobe Acrobat; and agility to learn new software as needed
Required Education and Experience:
- Associate degree required paralegal certificate preferred.
- Five (5) or more years of relevant experience as a paralegal for a law firm or in-house legal department preferred
- Experience in case-heavy litigation support and claims management strongly preferred
- Experience in a healthcare space preferred
- Notary Public desired.
Supervisory/Responsibility:
This position is an individual contributor with no direct reports.
Key Skills
- Legal Drafting
- Litigation
- Proofreading
- Organizational skills
- Adobe Acrobat
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Word
- Case Management
- Legal Research
- Paralegal
- Filing
- Medical Records
About Company
EyeCare Partners unites eye care specialists and thought leaders from every subspecialty with a mission of setting the industry standard in patient care.
