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Accountant
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Posted 63 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Offices of Hearings and Inquiries (OHI), Provider Reimbursement Review Board (PRRB). As a Accountant, GS-0510-14, serves as a team member, leader, or special advisor for/with other accountants, attorneys and the PRRB Board Members and Hearing officers on a variety of accounting, reimbursement, audit, and payment systems of Medicare Contractors.
What You'll Do
- →Advises on cost reporting, auditing, and accounting issues related to the Medicare Part A cost report.
- →Trains new staff and Board Members on the cost report process; consult senior level management and OGC on auditing payment issues.
- →Provide technical support to parties of appeals (Medicare Contractors, Appeals Support Contractor, and Providers, Plans, etc.) regarding the PRRB appeals process.
- →Advise PRRB or Hearing Officer on complex accounting and legal issues.
- →Prepares comprehensive written draft decisions that set forth the essential facts of the appeal, the payment issue(s) in dispute, significant contentions of the parties, the evidence and relevant law.
Requirements
- ✓Education Requirement: In addition to meeting the qualification requirements, you must have the following educational requirements: Degree: accounting; or a degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, or public administration that included or was supplemented by 24 semester hours in accounting.
- ✓The 24 hours may include up to 6 hours of credit in business law.
- ✓(The term "accounting" means "accounting and/or auditing" in this standard.
- ✓Similarly, "accountant" should be interpreted, generally, as "accountant and/or auditor.") OR Combination of education and experience: at least 4 years of experience in accounting, or an equivalent combination of accounting experience, college-level education, and training that provided professional accounting knowledge.
- ✓Your background must also include one of the following: Twenty-four semester hours in accounting or auditing courses of appropriate type and quality.
- ✓TRANSCRIPTS are required to verify satisfactory completion of the educational requirement listed above.
- ✓Please refer to the "Required Documents" section below for the documentation required at the time of application.
Personality Fit
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