Description:
Role Summary:The Regulatory Healthcare Attorney is responsible for providing legal and regulatory advice related to state insurance laws and regulations applicable to Cigna's domestic businesses. This role will be responsible for the intake, assessment, documentation, and monitoring of new and existing laws and regulations. Additionally, this role will support market conduct examinations and other regulatory inquiries or exams.
Responsibilities:
- Provide counsel to Cigna's domestic teams, including intaking, summarizing, and assessing the applicability of new and existing laws or regulations.
- Provide reliable and timely legal support to legal, compliance, and business units regarding state insurance and healthcare law impacts to operations, strategic initiatives, and regulatory inquiries or complaints.
- Draft cogent regulatory summaries communicating the impact of new laws/regulations and present regulatory instructions to committees comprised of internal operational and business areas.
- Conduct legal research on regulatory topics.
- Prepare comprehensive summaries of research findings, including comparative state surveys, as needed.
- Provide advice to business units on interpretation of research findings, and impacts or barriers to business initiatives.
- Draft documentation to explain regulatory topics trending across states.
- Act as a subject matter expert on various state regulatory topics.
- Serve as a single point of contact for business and product strategic regulatory needs.
- Work on assigned projects independently or with other team members.
Qualifications:
- JD; bar membership
- 2+ years of experience in health insurance industry including prior health insurance legal experience and a working knowledge of health insurance business and regulatory principles.
- Ability to provide risk assessment/risk mitigation support.
- Strong legal research and analytical skills with demonstrated attention to detail, ability to analyze regulatory and business information, determine cost/benefit, and provide compliant solutions and recommendations.
- Legal drafting experience and ability to apply law to business needs.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Personal presence, credibility, and the professional demeanor necessary to interact within legal, business units, and regulatory agencies, with persuasiveness and confidence.
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.
- For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 115,700 - 192,900 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.
- This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.
At The Cigna Group, you'll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you'll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.
About The Cigna Group
Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we're 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.
Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.