Staff Attorney - Washington, D.C. Or Baltimore, MD

The Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has immediate openings for experienced staff attorneys in its Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Division.

These positions are in Washington, D.C. or Baltimore, MD. Flexible telework is available and remote work may also be approved.CMS Division attorneys provide a broad range of legal services for several HHS programs on issues that affect millions of Americans. The Division’s clients and programs include Medicare, Medicaid, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), and the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO). The Program Integrity and Program Review Groups have openings for attorneys to advise CMS on implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), which gives Medicare unprecedented authority to negotiate prices for certain high-cost prescription drugs.The Program Review Group also has openings for each of the following three areas:

Innovative Payment and Service Delivery Models advising CMMI, which tests ways to improve health care quality and reduce costs in Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP); Health Insurance Reform advising CCIIO, which implements health insurance market reforms, health insurance Marketplaces, and the No Surprises Act; and Medicaid advising the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, which oversees Medicaid, CHIP, and the Basic Health Program.These positions offer significant responsibility and opportunity to engage in professionally rewarding and intellectually engaging work. Day-to-day work involves reviewing and analyzing proposed and final regulations, guidance documents, Medicaid demonstration project documents, stakeholder correspondence responses, and CMMI model participation agreements; and identifying and resolving legal issues pertaining to CMMI model design and implementation, Marketplace implementation, federal requirements for Medicaid and CHIP, and all aspects of the new Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, Medicare inflation rebates, and Medicare Part D benefit redesign.Qualified candidates will be highly motivated professionals with substantial experience in independently managing portfolios of complex, specialized, and important legal issues, as demonstrated by, for example, extensive work on precedent-setting high-profile matters that attract national scrutiny or with a significant impact on major regulated entities. Qualified candidates also will have strong academic credentials, contract drafting and review skills and/or significant regulatory and administrative law experience, demonstrated ability to work under competing deadlines, superb writing, communication, and analytical skills, and a demonstrated commitment to professionalism, ethics, civility, and public service.

Significant experience or familiarity with Medicare, particularly drug issues, CMMI models, Medicaid, and health insurance regulations is desirable. These positions require creative legal thinking and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.Your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine whether you meet the position qualifications listed in this announcement. Salary will be on the GS pay scale, with locality pay available depending on your work location.

Applicants at the GS-15 level must have at least five years of post-bar-admission professional legal experience and a demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Applicants at the GS-14 level must have at least three years of post-bar-admission professional legal experience, with four or more years strongly preferred, and a demonstrated ability to work independently with limited supervision.Please submit a short cover letter, resume, one legal writing sample, and law school transcript (if less than 10 years of legal experience) by email to CMSDRecruitmenthhs.gov, with a copy to Don.Parkerhhs.gov. Applicants should indicate whether they are applying for the Program Integrity Group, Program Review Group, or both groups. Before selecting any candidate, we will request three references and will contact those references upon permission of the candidate.