Responsibilities

About Our Career Opportunity

Summit Medical Group is recruiting for a Director, Privacy and Compliance Officer. This position is responsible for maintaining and strengthening the company’s compliance-focused culture by strategically planning, designing, implementing, and monitoring organization-wide compliance with all applicable laws and regulations through structured audit programs. This position is based in Knoxville, or open to a remote position in Nashville or another city in Tennessee.

Responsibilities:

Privacy Officer
- Investigate, document, and report privacy incidents and breaches
- Conduct new hire and annual privacy and HIPAA trainings
- Monitor privacy and HIPAA compliance and respond to complaints
- Review and negotiate BAAs, monitor BA compliance
- Review updates to state and federal regulations regarding privacy
- Provide oversight for medical records request process
- Conduct annual security risk assessment
Compliance Director
- Update and maintain compliance policies and procedures
- Respond to compliance-related complaints and monitor the compliance hotline
- Develop and maintain compliance training for new hires, annual training, and delinquency follow up
- Perform physical site inspections and new site inspections and training regarding compliance (posting of required notices and policies, etc.)
- Perform exclusion checks for vendors, current employees, and new employees
- Monitor compliance with company policy and state law regarding supervision of advanced practitioners, signing provider notes, and fraud and abuse
- Oversee billing and coding audit team

Qualifications

Experience/Job Requirements:

CHC or CHPC certification required.

Minimum Of 5-7 Years Of Experience In Healthcare Compliance.

Site visitation/travel to sites required.

Based in Knoxville, or open to a remote position in Nashville or another city in Tennessee.

Overview

Summit Medical Group is East Tennessee’s largest primary care organization with more than 415 providers at 87 practice locations in 19 counties. Summit also consists of four diagnostic centers, mobile diagnostic services, eight physical therapy centers, four express clinics, central laboratory, and sleep services center. Summit provides healthcare services to more than 370,000 patients, averaging over one million encounters annually. For more information, visit www.summitmedical.com

In addition to our commitment to the health of our community, our organization is also committed to the health of our employees through our employee Wellness Program. Employees receive a discounted monthly insurance premium if they actively participate in the wellness program. Pre-employment drug testing will occur prior to starting work and only candidates who pass the drug test will be considered eligible for employment.

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