Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

The Ethics and Compliance Manager is responsible for managing the implementation of City of Hope's Ethics and Compliance program for a specific geographic area of the City of Hope enterprise. This role implements and monitors company policies and procedures to ensure compliance with all applicable statutes, regulations, rules, and policies as outlined below.

The Manager is responsible for providing on-site and virtual compliance education in-line with enterprise objectives at their respective region in accordance with local needs and enterprise-wide priorities, including educating employees on City of Hope's Code of Conduct, compliance and privacy policies, compliance workplan, and privacy workplan. The Manager tracks laws and regulations that might affect the organization’s policies and procedures and works with other members of the system ethics and compliance team to design policies and training as appropriate. 

The Manager investigates reports of alleged violations of the company’s policies, federal, state, and local laws. The Manager gathers information and prepares reports, advises, and issues guidance on privacy and compliance matters. Under the direction of the system ethics and compliance office, the Manager provides an essential local compliance presence within their designated geographic area to ensure a consistent approach to all matters related to ethics and compliance.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Be responsible for managing the implementation of City of Hope’s Ethics and Compliance program for locations within their region.
• Implement and monitor COH policies and procedures to ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and requirements including Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, Stark and AKS, federal and state privacy regulations such as HIPAA, as well as all CMS, HHS and OIG regulations.
• Responsible for providing on-site and virtual compliance education in-line with enterprise objectives at their respective region in accordance with local needs and enterprise-wide priorities, including educating employees on City of Hope Code of Conduct, ethics and compliance policies, compliance workplan, and privacy workplan.
• Works closely with the regional leadership to evaluate and ensure the effectiveness of the ethics and compliance program. The Manager will actively participate in committees as assigned. The Manager will be an active participant in all system ethics and compliance team meetings and work groups to facilitate system ethics and compliance initiatives.
• initiates, facilitates, and promotes activities to foster a culture of ethics and compliance.
• Ensures compliance with all compliance and privacy related policies.
• Investigates reports of alleged violations of company compliance policies and Code of Conduct, whether raised through the Compliance Hotline or otherwise, implements corrective action plans, and ensures that appropriate enforcement action is taken, ensuring all matters are tracked in the appropriate matter tracking system, preparing reports that will be reported to executive leadership.

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor’s degree in law, medicine, health administration, nursing, accounting, or other applicable field; experience may substitute for minimum education requirements.
• 5-7 years’ experience in health care compliance or a related healthcare field
• Certification in Healthcare Compliance (CHC) or equivalent strongly preferred.
• Ability to balance several priorities at a given time and follow detailed procedures and exercise good judgement. Skilled in managing and organizing large amounts of data in an efficient and clear manner, maintaining strict confidentiality in all aspects of the job. Able to set and meet deadlines, respond to changing demands and build relationships.
• Excellent attention to detail, strong written and verbal communication skills, and analytical and critical decision-making skills required.
• Must demonstrate a high level of integrity and honesty.  Ability to maintain confidentiality of highly sensitive information.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, please click here.