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Medical Records Administrator, (Assistant Chief (ACHIM))
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
HybridColumbus, OH$78K – $101KApply by Jun 3, 2026Medical Records AdministrationENTJESFJESTJISTJOperationsHealthcare
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This position is located in the Health Information Management Section of Patient Business Service at the VA Central Ohio Healthcare System. Medical Records Administrators in VHA perform or supervise work concerned with the management of a health record program or the provision of services related to medical record administration/health information services. MRAs manage, preserve, analyze, and supervise the use of diagnostic and therapeutic health records/health information management.
What You'll Do
- →This assignment is considered above the full performance level.
- →This assignment serves as the Assistant Chief of Health Information Management (ACHIM) in VA Medical Centers designated as complexity level 2 or 3 as designated in the VHA Facility Complexity Model Listing.
- →Assists the CHIM in identifying and setting short-range and long-range goals, program objectives, and tasks to meet the mission and vision of the medical center.
- →Monitor and manage HIM workflow to ensure program objectives are met.
- →Assist with planning, developing, directing, and evaluating health information and other functions.
- →Oversee implementation and adherence to HIM industry standards, policies, procedures, laws, regulations, and accrediting bodies.
- →Ensures the facility is in compliance with applicable standards by completing HIM audits, healthcare data reports, and statistical information, for timely and accurate reporting.
- →Establish, implement, and monitor HIM performance through metrics, productivity measures, benchmarking, and other applicable tools.
- →Ensures quality and efficiency for all areas and processes of the HIM department..
- →Keeps current on emerging issues and trends in the HIM field, including process improvement initiatives for HIM, the electronic health record (EHR), medical coding, clinical documentation integrity, health record documentation analysis, transcription/speech recognition, release of information, file room, scanning and indexing, and health information exchange.
- →Keeps the CHIM, management and clinical staff abreast of changing technology in electronic systems used to collect, process, code, protect and store health information.
- →Consistently conducts audits and monitors for all areas of responsibility, ensuring accurate and timely data is processed by all employees.
- →Reviews completed work and assesses quality, quantity, accuracy, and timeliness of work produced by each employee and provides constructive feedback.
- →Ascertains problems encountered, develops performance improvement plans, and recommends personnel actions as necessary.
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.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓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.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial 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 trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
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