Job Description

The Associate Senior Counsel, Care Solutions (Associate Senior Counsel) position will provide strategic legal advice and provide counsel on a variety of legal matters related to behavioral health, including development and go-to-market strategy for new solutions and modifications or enhancements to existing solutions, legal and business strategy, network solutions, and regulatory matters, while working alongside the Care Solutions business teams.

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Key member of the Evernorth Care Solutions Legal Team, serving as a legal advisor to the Cigna\xe2\x80\x99s Evernorth business. Counsel will primarily focus on providing legal guidance and solutions for regulatory and contract challenges impacting Evernorth Behavioral Health. Primary responsibility includes counseling the business with respect to behavioral health matters, including, but not limited to, network contracting, client contracting, product development, go-to-market strategy, intercompany contracting, and regulatory matters.

The Associate Senior Counsel must partner effectively with colleagues in Enterprise Compliance, Cigna Legal, and clinical and business areas across the organization to ensure that legal and compliance risks are mitigated effectively. Additionally, the Associate Senior Counsel must work with business partners to ensure that new initiatives and products can be operationalized in a legal and compliant fashion.

The successful candidate will operate as a thought partner and collaborate with behavioral leadership and other internal professionals. This position requires a customer-focused mind-set and a keen understanding of the perspectives of key stakeholders, including business leaders, Cigna\xe2\x80\x99s customers and clients; and regulators and enforcement agencies.

This role requires seasoned judgment, significant healthcare transactional experience, strong regulatory expertise, business understanding, the ability to negotiate directly with clients, the ability to work independently, comfort with working through ambiguity, and strong attention to detail. The Associate Senior Counsel must gain an understanding of Evernorth\xe2\x80\x99s behavioral health business and related integrated solutions, and develop the ability to provide counsel to support novel and complex contract arrangements and product offerings.

The Associate Senior Counsel must gain an understanding of applicable state and federal laws and regulations, including: laws pertaining to mental health parity, network contracting, utilization management, third party administrators, risk-bearing or capitated arrangements, and federal and state privacy laws and regulations (including the HIPAA Privacy Rule).

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as an extended team member and thought partner for leadership of Evernorth Care Solutions; Behavioral Health team
• Through the provision of innovative legal counsel, support the behavioral health team by ensuring compliant administration of the segment\xe2\x80\x99s operations and products;
• Coordinate with fellow Legal and Enterprise Compliance partners to ensure the business partners are receiving consistent legal and regulatory support and are apprised of key risks and issues in a timely manner;
• Legal support for network contracting and network management of behavioral health providers;
• Promotes a culture of compliance, accountability, transparency and ethical decision-making.

Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor required.
• 7+ years of legal experience in Behavioral Heath
• Understands the importance of supporting business leaders to enable sustainable growth.
• Adept at interacting with internal and external clients and business partners.
• Highly collaborative individual with the ability to influence others and build strong professional relationships.
• Consistent sound judgment and incisive, three-dimensional analytical abilities.
• Outstanding verbal and written communications skills.
• Strong, independent decision-making ability \xe2\x80\x93 leads by example.
• Intellectual flexibility; adept at reassessing priorities to ensure that internal and external expectations are fulfilled.
• Strong ability to navigate through barriers to drive successful initiatives throughout the business.
• Ability to multi-task and appropriately prioritize and manage multiple projects under tight deadlines.

Position Location: Hybrid \xe2\x80\x93 Remote & In-office (Bloomfield, CT; Bluffton, SC; Nashville, TN; and St. Louis, MO)

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we\xe2\x80\x99re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: SeeYourself@cigna.com for support. Do not email SeeYourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.

The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.

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