Deputy Compliance Officer, Biological Sciences Division

Department

BSD OCC - Administration

About the Department

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.

Job Summary

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. Uses specialized expertise to manage compliance documentation submission and maintenance, compliance training, compliance committee formation, and other programmatic functions.

Responsibilities

• 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 overpayments within applicable repayment timeframes, 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 program, ensuring employees, contractors, and vendors are screened against federal and state exclusion lists, such as OIG LEIE, SAM, and any other applicable state lists, at onboarding and on an ongoing basis, with confirmed matches escalated and resolved.
• Guides the delivery of the compliance education and training program, including a centralized Universal Training Table and communication strategy that reduces fragmented training across University and Hospital systems, and supports the OCC’s stakeholder-communication strategy by translating regulatory complexity into plain-language guidance for non-compliance audiences.
• Advances consistency and standardization of compliance workflows, tools, and reporting across the Health System’s entities, supporting the CCO in setting program direction and driving consistent execution of enterprise initiatives.
• Supports and helps coordinate enterprise compliance initiatives that span the OCC’s core service lines of audit, risk, investigations, and conflict of interest, helping ensure alignment, consistency, and timely progress across the program.
• Supports delivery of the Health System’s compliance AI-education program and the UCM AI governance committee framework.
• Monitors regulatory and enforcement developments (CMS, OIG, DOJ, HFS, and Illinois statute and rule) and prepares analysis and briefings that inform the CCO’s reporting to senior leadership and the Audit Committee.
• Develops the implementation of compliance activities designated by the University's strategic plans. Monitors University compliance with regulations and laws.
• Structures teams to develop and administer policies related to affirmative action, non-discriminatory practices for persons with disabilities, and unlawful harassment or sexual misconduct.
• Provides leadership for confidential counseling and expertise to those who feel they have experienced unlawful treatment based on University programs and activities.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

Work Experience:

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 10+ years of work experience in a related job discipline.

Certifications:

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Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Master’s degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health, or a related field.
• Juris doctorate degree.

Experience:

• 7–10 years in healthcare compliance, ideally within an academic medical center or complex health system, with operational depth in coding, billing, and documentation, research billing, conflict of interest, or licensure and scope of practice, and experience supervising compliance staff.

Certifications:

• Certification in healthcare compliance, such as CHC, CHRC, or similar.

Technical Skills or Knowledge:

• Working knowledge of federal and Illinois healthcare regulation, such as CMS Conditions of Participation, billing and coverage rules, OIG/DOJ compliance program guidance, Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, and False Claims Act, applied to day-to-day operations.

Preferred Competencies

• Demonstrated ability to run auditing, monitoring, and corrective-action cycles and manage investigations to documented resolution.
• Strong people-management, organization, and execution skills, with the judgment to escalate strategic and high-sensitivity matters to the Chief Compliance Officer appropriately.
• Proficiency in data analysis, reporting, and dashboards to track compliance program outcomes, paired with clear written and verbal communication for clinical and operational stakeholders.

Working Conditions

• Office environment.

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)
• Cover Letter (preferred)

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Job Family

Legal & Regulatory Affairs

Role Impact

People Manager

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Drug Test Required

No

Health Screen Required

No

Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required

No

Pay Rate Type

Salary

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FLSA Status

Exempt

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Pay Range

$170,000.00 - $240,000.00

The included pay rate or range represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.

Benefits Eligible

Yes

The University of Chicago offers a wide range of benefits programs and resources for eligible employees, including health, retirement, and paid time off. Information about the benefit offerings can be found in the Benefits Guidebook.

Posting Statement

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