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Medical Administration Officer
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
On-siteWashington, DC$122K – $158KApply by Jun 1, 2026Miscellaneous Administration And ProgramENTJESFJESTJISTJOperationsHealthcare
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The incumbent serves as Deputy Chief (Inpatient) of the Business Office for the Washington DC VA Medical Center (DCVAMC). Incumbent reports directly to the Business Office Chief, providing leadership and managerial support for substantial operations to fulfill VA mission. The incumbent provides a high-level of leadership support to Business Office senior leadership and clinical services.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties: Planning, direction, integration, and evaluation of all Business Office functions that support inpatient care delivery across the Health Care System.
- →Providing Veteran-centered administrative and operational support and leading section chiefs and managers to ensure seamless, across the continuum of care.
- →Emphasizing inpatient flow management, coordination of admissions, discharges, and transfers, and ensuring timely and accurate patient administration in compliance with VHA directives.
- →Must be available for rotating shifts, weekends, and holidays, given inpatient service requirements, and serving as Acting Chief, Business Officer in the Chiefs absence.
- →Providing operational direction, policy development, and program oversight to strengthen the quality, access, and efficiency of inpatient and outpatient care delivery.
- →Serving as a principal advisor to the Chief, Business Officer and other executive leaders on inpatient business operations, access, and resource utilization.
- →Providing a high degree of independence, sound judgment, and the ability to interpret and implement complex VHA policies in a manner that supports high reliability, stewardship of resources, and equity in access for all enrolled Veterans.
- →Meeting mission requirements, may be required to adjust tours, including coverage during evenings, weekends, and holidays, to ensure continuity of critical inpatients business functions in support of Veteran care.
- →Providing program level leadership for inpatient enrollment, eligibility, and benefits activities, ensuring that policies, procedures, and workflows consistently support accurate and timely eligibility determinations for admitted Veterans, including complex categories such as Other Than Honorable discharges, Military Sexual Trauma, and other special eligibility programs.
- →Overseeing the design, implementation, and monitoring of processes that prevent, detect, and correct Business Office-related encounter and eligibility errors affecting inpatients, including development of performance metrics, routine trend analysis, and targeted staff education.
- →Providing strategic oversight of inpatient administrative operations, including bed control, bed assignments and transfers, bed change letters, and ward administration, to ensure standardized process accuracy, real time tracking of patient location and status throughout hospitalization.
- →Developing and monitoring program goals, performance indicators, and standard operating procedures related to admissions, transfers, and discharges, working closely with Nursing, Medicine, Mental Health, Social Work, and other services to optimize patient flow and minimize avoidable delays.
- →Coordinating with Fiscal Service at the program level to maintain robust processes for Patient Funds and Agent Cashier activities, ensuring appropriate internal controls, reconciliation practices, and compliance with VA policy for all admitted patients.
- →Overseeing the inpatient travel and transportation program as it relates to admitted and discharged Veterans, including establishment of policies and workflows for Beneficiary Travel eligibility determinations, authorization and documentation of approved travel.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
- ✓You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
- ✓If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 483d5fb2-ae11-40e2-a5b4-7fd651a5f1a4
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