Bill Priest
Chief Compliance Officer
Bill Priest is Acadia Healthcare’s Chief Compliance Officer. In this role he is responsible for overseeing the company’s compliance program and maintaining a culture of compliance within the company. His responsibilities include development and management of corporate compliance policies, chairing the Corporate Compliance Committee, providing appropriate training and education on federal healthcare laws and regulations and the Code of Conduct to employees and contractors, ensuring effective lines of communication exist, managing the company’s compliance hotline and ensuring timely and appropriate investigations and resolutions of any reported issues and overseeing coding, billing, and documentation audits.
Prior to joining Acadia, Mr. Priest was Chief Compliance Officer of U.S. Anesthesia Partners, one of the nation’s largest providers of anesthesia services. Previous roles include Chief Compliance Officer of SouthernCare, Inc., a national hospice provider, Assistant General Counsel of Triad Hospitals, and Associate General Counsel of Baylor Health Care System.
Mr. Priest earned a Bachelor of Arts from Oklahoma State University, received his Juris Doctorate from Washington and Lee University, and is Certified in Healthcare Compliance by the Compliance Certification Board.
