Compliance Manager

About the role

The Compliance Manager will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of our compliance program. They will act as a trusted collaborator across the organization, ensuring compliance with all complex and evolving healthcare regulations. The Compliance Manager will be a key strategic partner in our continual improvement of Equip’s compliance and risk management processes.

Responsibilities

• Conduct thorough compliance investigations into policy violations and state or federal regulatory breaches, including HIPAA, privacy, and fraud-related cases.

• Proactively identify and assess compliance risks by reviewing internal departmental processes, new product initiatives, and changing state/federal regulatory landscapes.

• Develop key risk indicators and continuous monitoring programs to evaluate the effectiveness of risk mitigation strategies.

• Provide clear, actionable, and solution-oriented guidance to individual personnel, clinical leaders, and executive stakeholders regarding complex regulatory statutes and industry standards.

• Partner closely with internal policy owners to write, design, and update comprehensive operational policies that address key organizational risks.

• Coordinate directly with regulatory bodies, payor entities, and legal counsel to support external accreditations, payor audits, and overall risk management.

• Design and deliver highly interactive, engaging compliance training and presentations for patient-facing teams, translating dense clinical compliance and risk management concepts into practical, everyday workflows.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 5+ years of healthcare compliance experience, preferably in a high-growth healthcare startup or organization

• 2+ years of experience conducting, documenting, and resolving complex compliance and privacy investigations.

• Proven track record of managing external audits, identifying root-cause issues, and driving cross-functional coordination to implement corrective action plans and remediation.

• Strong functional knowledge of healthcare laws and regulations, including HIPAA/HITECH, state Medicaid requirements, OIG guidelines, and corporate compliance standards.

• Proven ability to apply critical thinking and manage multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with a talent for translating regulations into operational guidance and gaining buy-in as well as cultivating and maintaining relationships.