# Healthcare Market Access Counsel **Company**: Veracyte **Location**: Remote **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $152,000-$216,000 USD **Category**: Legal **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/veracyte/jobs/5277393007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_cfeaa1ff-1ce ## Description At Veracyte, we offer exciting career opportunities for those interested in joining a pioneering team that is committed to transforming cancer care for patients across the globe. The Healthcare & Market Access Counsel serves as a senior legal advisor to the company’s Market Access, Reimbursement, and Commercial organizations, providing strategic counsel on complex healthcare, payer, reimbursement, and coverage matters. **Key Responsibilities** - Lead legal strategy and provide senior-level counsel on payer contracting, reimbursement, coverage, and broader market access matters, balancing legal risk with commercial and patient-access objectives. - Independently lead the review, drafting, and negotiation of complex and strategically significant agreements with private payors, including commercial insurers and managed care organizations. - Serve as a strategic legal advisor to Market Access and senior business leaders, providing proactive counsel on payer strategy, reimbursement frameworks, coverage initiatives, and emerging market access opportunities and risks. - Shape the company's legal approach to reimbursement and payer strategy, translating complex legal and regulatory requirements into practical business recommendations. - Lead legal support for reimbursement and appeals strategies, partnering with Market Access, Reimbursement, Commercial, and other stakeholders to develop approaches to complex payer and coverage challenges. - Advise on compliance with applicable federal and state healthcare laws, regulations, and guidance affecting billing, coding, reimbursement, payer contracting, and coverage. - Evaluate complex payer policies, coverage determinations, reimbursement requirements, and contractual provisions, identifying material legal, regulatory, and business risks and recommending appropriate strategies. - Influence cross-functional decision-making by providing clear, pragmatic legal guidance that enables business objectives while appropriately managing organizational risk. - Develop and implement legal frameworks, playbooks, contracting positions, templates, and scalable processes that improve consistency, efficiency, and risk management across payer contracting and reimbursement activities. - Establish and deliver guidance and training for business leaders and internal stakeholders on payer contracting, reimbursement requirements, healthcare regulatory developments, and evolving market access considerations. - Monitor and anticipate changes in the healthcare legal and regulatory landscape affecting managed care, reimbursement, coverage, and diagnostics, including federal policies such as PAMA and defrayal obligations, and evolving state biomarker coverage legislation, and proactively assess their potential impact on company strategy and operations. - Provide leadership and subject-matter expertise across the organization, helping strengthen organizational capabilities in healthcare, reimbursement, payer contracting, and market access. **Who You Are** **Required Qualifications** - Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing - 5+ years of relevant legal experience, including healthcare law, market access, or payer contracting - Experience reviewing and negotiating contracts with private payors, health plans, or managed care organizations - Strong understanding of U.S. healthcare reimbursement and coding systems, including commercial insurance and managed care structures, the MolDx program, AMA CPT codes, and the CLFS. - Demonstrated experience supporting or advising on appeals strategies, coverage disputes, or reimbursement challenges - Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory issues into clear, actionable guidance for business partners - Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a track record of working effectively across cross-functional teams - High level of integrity, sound judgment, and attention to detail **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience in diagnostics, life sciences, or laboratory services environments - Familiarity with payer policy development, utilization management, or claims adjudication processes - Experience working closely with market access, billing, revenue cycle, or reimbursement teams - Knowledge of federal and state healthcare regulations impacting diagnostics and coverage (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial frameworks) - Prior in-house experience in a growth-oriented healthcare or biotech organization or a commercial insurance company - Comfort navigating ambiguity and contributing to evolving processes in a dynamic, mission-driven environment **What We Can Offer You** Veracyte is a growing company that offers significant career opportunities if you are curious, driven, patient-oriented and aspire to help us build a great company. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, and are committed to fostering an inclusive workforce, where diverse backgrounds are represented, engaged, and empowered to drive innovative ideas and decisions. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Juris Doctor (JD) - healthcare law - market access - payer contracting - U.S. healthcare reimbursement - coding systems - commercial insurance - managed care structures ### Nice to have - diagnostics - life sciences - laboratory services environments - payer policy development - utilization management - claims adjudication processes --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/veracyte/jobs/5277393007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)