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        UCSD Audit & Management Advisory Services 

A CONFIDENTIAL SERVICE TO HANDLE REPORTS OF POTENTIAL FRAUD, WASTE, MISUSE OF ASSETS OR OTHER COMPLIANCE ISSUES

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Campus Notice from the Office of the Chancellor

UCSD Hotline Operating Principles

If members of the UCSD community -- faculty, staff and students -- have concerns about possible improper activities that may place the University at risk, we encourage them to discuss their concerns with their supervisors, managers or departmental heads.

We recognize that sometimes  an individual would prefer an alternative avenue for reporting concerns about compliance with policies and procedures that allows anonymity and confidentiality.

To provide that option, UCSD has established a Hotline program to field calls about compliance on an anonymous basis and relay concerns back to the appropriate University office for review and, when necessary, action.

WHAT KINDS OF CALLS ARE APPROPRIATE? 

The Hotline is designed to respond to concerns about:

• Misuse of assets, fraud and waste
• Conflict of interest violations
• Health and safety violations
• Inappropriate gifts, entertainment and gratuities
• Potential false billings, including patient billings

WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH MY CALL? 

We have retained an independent company to manage this service.  Trained personnel will take your call.  If you choose, you may give your report without identifying yourself.  You will be given a code number so that you can call back for a status report at some later date.

Your report will be forwarded to the appropriate campus department or program, for example, to Audit & Management Advisory Services or the UCSD Healthcare Compliance Office.

HOTLINE OPERATING PRINCIPLES:

• The UCSD Hotline was developed to take calls regarding possible fraud, such as misuse of assets, false billings, conflict of interest, or other compliance issues.

• Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to report concerns directly to their immediate supervisors, managers or department heads.  When this approach is not viable, the UCSD Hotline provides a secondary confidential alternative for reporting concerns requiring University review and action.

• The UCSD Hotline is not intended to replace or interfere with normal reporting, supervision, or management information processes, procedures or protocols established and practiced within various University work environments.

• Reporting information and concerns to the UCSD Hotline does not modify time periods specified in existing University policies and procedures.

• Operation of the UCSD Hotline supplements, but does not supercede, any existing UCSD policy or procedure.

UCSD Audit Committee, May 1999