General Counsel (MSO Healthcare, Risk & Corporate)

General Counsel (MSO - Healthcare Risk & Corporate)

Compensation: Base annual salary up to $240000 paid bi-weekly commensurate with experience scope and market location.
Employment Type: W-2 Full Time Employee Exempt
Location: This is a remote position; some ability to travel required

Role Summary

ARC Health is seeking an experienced General Counsel to serve as the organizations chief legal officer and enterprise risk leader. This role is heavily focused on healthcare law regulatory compliance MSOpractice alignment corporate governance and risk management across a growing multi-state platform. The General Counsel provides strategic legal guidance to the CEO executive leadership team and Board of Directors ensuring that ARC operates in a compliant defensible and scalable manner.

This role is not responsible for day-to-day employment matters and is not an M&A execution role. Transaction execution and employment law support are handled through internal partners and outside counsel. The General Counsel maintains oversight risk assessment and strategic control.

General Counsel Responsibilities

• Serve as the chief legal advisor to the CEO executive leadership team and Board of Directors on all material legal regulatory and risk-related matters.
• Own enterprise legal risk management for a multi-state healthcare MSO including identification assessment mitigation and escalation of legal and regulatory risk.
• Oversee healthcare regulatory compliance including Corporate Practice of Medicine (CPOM) Stark Law Anti-Kickback Statute HIPAA state privacy laws and related federal and state healthcare regulations.
• Provide legal leadership on MSOpractice structures management services agreements and affiliated entity arrangements to ensure regulatory defensibility and operational clarity.
• Lead and oversee the corporate compliance function; the Compliance Officer reports directly into the General Counsel.
• Develop maintain and continuously improve ARCs compliance framework policies training monitoring and audit readiness processes.
• Advise leadership on regulatory inquiries audits investigations and corrective action planning.
• Provide legal oversight for commercial real estate matters including leases amendments renewals terminations landlord negotiations and build-out risk management.
• Draft review and negotiate a broad range of corporate and commercial agreements including vendor technology professional services and management services agreements.
• Oversee corporate governance including entity formation and maintenance operating agreements resolutions written consents compliance calendars and corporate recordkeeping.
• Support Board and committee governance fiduciary guidance and preparation of Board-level legal and risk materials.
• Manage litigation strategy and dispute resolution in coordination with outside counsel and insurers including oversight of legal spend and case strategy.
• Partner cross-functionally with Finance Operations IT and Compliance to provide practical business-oriented legal guidance.
• Establish scalable legal templates playbooks and decision frameworks to support growth while maintaining compliance and risk discipline.

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation: Base annual salary up to $240000 paid bi-weekly commensurate with experience scope and market location.
• Performance Incentive: up to 25% annual bonus opportunity
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match up to 4%
• Unlimited PTO
• Comprehensive medical dental and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents
• HSA (with employer contribution) and FSA options to help manage healthcare and dependent care expenses
• Employer-paid life insurance and AD&D coverage
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with confidential mental health and life support resources

General Counsel Responsibilities

Education and Experience:

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school.
• Active bar admission and good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 10 years of progressively responsible legal experience.
• Deep experience in healthcare law and regulatory compliance within a multi-state environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in MSO or similar management services structures and CPOM risk management.
• Strong background in corporate governance entity management and general corporate legal matters.
• Meaningful commercial real estate transactional experience.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise risk management and compliance functions.
• Experience managing and directing outside counsel and advisors.
• Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory issues into clear actionable business guidance.
• Executive presence and comfort advising senior leadership boards and private equity sponsors.
• Strong judgment discretion and ethical standards.

Leadership Characteristics Skills & Abilities

• Acts with integrity professionalism and sound ethical judgment.
• Demonstrates a calm pragmatic and solutions-oriented approach to risk.
• Balances legal rigor with operational practicality.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced growth-oriented and highly regulated environment.
• Demonstrates discretion and sound judgment in sensitive matters.
• Aligns with ARCs mission and values and supports access to exemplary mental healthcare.

Physical Requirements: This position is primarily sedentary and requires the ability to sit for extended periods use hands for computer and document work communicate effectively and travel periodically. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

About ARC Health Partners

ARC Health OPCO (ARC) is a next-generation Management Services Organization (MSO) supporting mental healthcare practices across the United States. ARC partners with affiliated practices to provide scalable administrative legal compliance finance and operational infrastructure allowing clinicians and practice leaders to focus on patient care. ARC operates in a complex highly regulated multi-state healthcare environment and is backed by private equity.

ARC Health Partners is committed to fostering a diverse equitable and inclusive workplace where all individuals feel valued respected and supported. We believe diversity of backgrounds experiences and perspectives strengthens our teams and enhances the care we provide to the communities we serve.

ARC Health Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age disability genetic information veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.

ARC Health Partners is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. Accommodation requests may be submitted to