Chief Compliance and Contracting Officer

About the role

Northwest Ambulance provides interfacility transport, with some 911 response, and critical care transport across Washington. We're hiring our first Chief Compliance & Contracting Officer — a standalone executive role reporting directly to the CEO and Owner. This is a build role, not a maintenance role. You'll stand up the compliance program and take ownership of the contract portfolio, two functions that currently live in pieces across Operations, Billing, and HR. You will audit all three, and you won't report through any of them.

Responsibilities

• A documented, organization-wide compliance program: written policies, standards of conduct, an annual risk-based work plan, and an audit calendar you set and execute.
• Ambulance billing and reimbursement compliance across Medicare, Medicaid/Apple Health, and commercial payers — medical necessity, level of service, mileage, PCS forms, and ePCR documentation quality.
• Fraud, waste, and abuse controls.
• HIPAA privacy, including the Privacy Officer function.