Deputy Compliance Officer, Biological Sciences Division

Department BSD OCC - Administration

UChicago Medicine Health System is committed to promoting responsible, ethically sound, and legally compliant conduct across all areas of healthcare delivery. Through the Office of Corporate Compliance (OCC), UChicago Medicine fosters a culture of integrity and ethical behavior, ensuring adherence to all applicable federal and state laws, as well as regulations governing healthcare operations. Led by the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), the OCC provides comprehensive oversight and strategic direction for the Health System’s compliance initiatives, collaborating extensively across departments to uphold regulatory standards and ethical practices.

The OCC is dedicated to supporting effective compliance practices, monitoring, risk assessment, and education, serving as a central resource to promote the highest standards of integrity and regulatory compliance throughout UChicago Medicine’s healthcare operations.

The Deputy Compliance Officer serves as a senior operational leader within the Office of Corporate Compliance (OCC), reporting to and acting by delegation from the Health System Chief Compliance Officer (CCO). Working in partnership with and under the direction of the CCO, the Deputy supports the day‑to‑day management of UChicago Medicine’s corporate compliance program across the Health System’s entities, directly supervises the Director of Compliance, Education, Investigation, and Outreach, and provides operational oversight of the work of the broader compliance team.

The Deputy helps carry out the CCO’s operational priorities, and represents the OCC in the CCO’s absence or by specific delegation. This role provides leadership and direction through managers that oversee regulatory compliance program activities, anticipates problems and develops systems to identify areas of risk through internal audits, and uses specialized expertise to manage compliance documentation submission and maintenance, compliance training, compliance committee formation, and other programmatic functions.

In partnership with the CCO, supports the overall operation of the corporate compliance program, helping translate the annual compliance work plan into executed deliverables and maintaining the compliance policies, procedures, and standards that govern the program across the Health System’s entities. Supports the annual enterprise compliance risk assessment and helps translate its results into the compliance work plan and monitoring priorities.

Coordinates day‑to‑day auditing and monitoring of high‑risk areas in support of the CCO; helps oversee the disposition of findings; and ensures corrective actions are implemented, validated, and documented to withstand external review by the DOJ, OIG, CMS, HFS, and UPIC/RAC. Manages the identification, quantification, and refund of identified over payments within applicable repayment time frames, and supports voluntary self‑disclosures to the OIG, CMS, and state agencies in coordination with Legal.

Serves as the OCC’s operational liaison to partner departments—Revenue Cycle, Finance, Legal, Quality and Patient Safety, Pharmacy, Care Coordination, Health Information Management, and clinical departments—to integrate compliance standards into day‑to‑day operations. Provides operational compliance support to Revenue Cycle and clinical departments on billing, documentation, and coverage questions for both existing and newly developed services, escalating policy‑level and structural matters to the CCO.

Oversees scope‑of‑practice and multistate‑licensure operations, including licensure exception requests, and supports Epic‑based scheduling and practice controls that keep clinical activity within licensed scope and reduce billing risk, consistent with CMS Conditions of Participation and Illinois licensure requirements. Stewards the Code of Conduct and oversees the compliance resource line and the intake, triage, and case management of reported concerns, ensuring timely investigation, resolution, and documentation;

escalates significant or sensitive matters to the CCO. Oversees the sanction‑ and exclusion‑screening…