Litigation Lead, Regulatory Healthcare Consulting

🕒 May 14

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

💵 $155k - $196k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚔 Compliance

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Ascendient Healthcare Advisors

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1994

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🤝 Non-profit

Healthcare Insurance • Non-profit • Public Health

Ascendient Healthcare Advisors is a consulting firm dedicated to fostering effective, equitable, and sustainable healthcare across the United States. With over 30 years of experience, the firm provides a range of interconnected services including strategy, planning, regulatory support, and leadership coaching, tailored to meet the unique needs of healthcare delivery organizations, public health entities, and government organizations. Ascendient focuses on helping its clients navigate the complexities of the evolving healthcare landscape, ensuring they develop actionable plans that promote health equity and improve community health outcomes.

📋 Description

• Lead CON litigation engagements as the firm’s expert witness, working directly with client attorneys to build case strategy, develop the evidence, and testify in contested case proceedings before administrative law judges • Serve as Ascendient’s primary expert witness in contested CON hearings across multiple states, with particular depth in North Carolina • Develop and execute litigation strategy in direct partnership with client attorneys • Author expert reports and pre-filed written testimony that are analytically rigorous and fully defensible under cross-examination • Prepare hearing exhibits and supporting analytical work product tied to CON review criteria: need analysis, financial feasibility, utilization projections, and service area analysis • Attend and participate in all phases of hearings, including proceedings that may span multiple weeks • Prepare for and give deposition testimony as required • Mentor and develop the firm’s Opposition Lead, with the potential to serve as their direct supervisor as the practice scales • Help shape the firm’s litigation methodology, standards, and analytical capability over time

🎯 Requirements

• Formally qualified and accepted by an administrative law judge or hearing officer as an expert witness in CON, healthcare regulatory, or other administrative law hearings • Testified in a minimum of 3–5 administrative law hearings (7 or more preferred) • Direct experience with Certificate of Need processes, review criteria, and state health planning frameworks • Demonstrated ability to survive rigorous cross-examination and defend analytical methodology under adversarial pressure • Experience authoring expert reports or pre-filed written testimony for administrative proceedings • Hospital financial modeling and feasibility analysis experience • Deep understanding of hospital and health system operations, service line dynamics, and utilization data • Familiarity with healthcare data sources: CMS datasets, AHA data, state health planning databases, and similar

🏖️ Benefits

• Full benefits including health, dental, life, and disability insurance • 401(k) • Paid time off