Audrey Andrews, senior vice president and chief compliance officer of Tenet Healthcare Corporation, oversees the company’s ethics program, corporate compliance department and is responsible for educating nearly 100,000 employees and physicians about regulatory and ethics issues. Andrews reports directly to the Quality, Compliance and Ethics committee of Tenet’s board of directors.

Prior to her appointment as chief compliance officer, Andrews served as vice president and assistant general counsel for Tenet’s regulatory affairs. In that position, she led the law department regulatory group handling Medicare reimbursement, quality of care and other regulatory issues. She was promoted to senior vice president in 2008.

Andrews joined Tenet in 1998 as hospital operations counsel. She joined the compliance section of the law department a year later and began providing legal advice on Medicare reimbursement issues, quality of care and other specialty areas such as EMTALA and HIPAA.

She earned both her bachelor’s degree in government in and a juris doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. 

Andrews is a member of the American and Texas Bar Associations and the American Health Lawyers Association. She serves on the Quality Committee and Law & Operational Policy Committee of the Federation of American Hospitals.