Lynn Gordon

About Lynn Gordon

Highly strategic health care provider/system Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel with 20 plus years of leadership, M&A, regulatory, managed care contracting, payor affiliations, academic medical center (AMC), graduate medical education (GME), clinical research compliance and Fraud and Abuse experience. Former Equity Partner and Health Care Department Chair, Chicago Office for Global/AmLaw 100 law firm, Nixon Peabody. Extensive knowledge of health care, health insurance and accountable care organization operations including development, oversight and management of Legal, Risk and Compliance functions with direct reporting and accountability to boards of directors and CEOs across a broad array of ownership models. Executive leadership and management experience in law firm, health system and private equity-payor joint venture environments. Voted MVP by Executive Team and Board of Directors in navigating highly political and competitive bid process, and leading negotiations and sale of a multi-hospital county-owned health system in North Carolina as part of a >$5 Billion transaction. Current Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel role with innovative and dynamic healthcare private equity firm (Deerfield Management) and major health insurer (Blue Cross Blue Shield, NC) joint venture developing, implementing and expanding a statewide primary, behavioral health and psychiatric health care delivery platform with multiple provider and patient engagement models.

Experience

1. Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer & General Counsel, Alo Solutions (Bcbsnc Deerfield Jv)

   Alo

   Jan 2022 — Present · Durham, NC, US

   Alo Solutions is an affiliate of Blue Cross Blue Shield NC (CuraCor), initially formed as a startup company joint venture with Deerfield Management, a $15 billion healthcare private equity firm. Alo serves as the rapidly expanding State-wide growth platform for providers under an evolving payor-provider system model, ultimately spanning owned and affiliated clinics, facilities, and networks Built out de novo Legal and Compliance functions to anchor health care delivery platform, including day-to-day legal, insurance portfolio development, risk management/incident reporting, centralized contracting, RCM audit function, and HIPAA policy and procedure development and implementationLegal and strategic lead in mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures; built core set of deal documents; built and trained deal team; handing deal documents, negotiations, due diligence and post transaction integrations; footprint rapidly expanding Designed and implemented unique clinically integrated network for State-wide support of primary care practices; drafted and negotiated key governance documents, core agreements; transitioning into ACO; modeling and building out an array of related VBC models and activities (significant antitrust expertise)Providing lead legal and strategic support through $25+ Million electronic health record transformation, converting from multiple EHR platforms to unify and scale Epic across Alo and BCBS affiliates; designed and drafted Epic and IT JOA model poised for maximum flexibility and growth

Education

• North Carolina State University

  Master's degree, Ethnic and Minority Literature (English)

  1989 — 1991

• Michigan State University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature/Letters

  1984 — 1988

• Loyola University Chicago School of Law

  J.D., Health Law

  1993 — 1996

• Michigan State University

  Ph.D. Studies, English (Minority Literature)

  1992 — 1992