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Medical Records Administrator
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 4 days ago
Hybrid Birmingham, AL $108K – $140K Apply by Sep 25, 2026 Medical Records Administration ENTJESFJESTJISTJ OperationsHealthcare
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This position is located in the Health Information Management (HIM) Section of Business Management Service (BMS) at the Birmingham VA Healthcare System. Medical Records Administrators (MRAs) 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 info mgmt.
What You'll Do
- →Duties to include, but not limited to, the following: Oversees all facets of health records management for the facility ensuring maintenance of completed, accurate, timely, clinically-pertinent, and readily-accessible patient health records.
- →Exercises independent judgment in carrying out duties and responsibilities and has complete authority to plan, design and direct the HIM program; recommendations and/or technical decisions made by employee are not reviewed.
- →Provides administrative management of health records: planning, managing, advising, and directing the health information program in accordance with applicable Federal laws, facility by-laws, VHA policy, The Joint Commission standards, the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), and other regulatory and accrediting agencies.
- →Creates and monitors systems to ensure accurate, timely, and complete health records, in accordance with VHA policy and The Joint Commission health information protocols.
- →Ensures maintenance of complete, accurate, timely, clinically-pertinent, and readily-accessible patient health records, which contain sufficient recorded information to serve as a basis to plan patient care, support diagnoses, warrant treatment, measure outcomes, support education, research, and facilitate performance improvement processes and legal requirements.
- →Evaluates health records program and independently determines the nature and extent of problem areas.
- →Develops recommendations and solutions for program improvement.
- →Develops and implements innovative solutions to correct technical, complex problems.
- →Provide detailed technical expertise in health records science and other very technical aspects of health information.
- →Maintains all health information input into the local VISTA database and assures timely transmission of that data into all VA centralized databases - most frequently those maintained at the Austin Data Processing Center.
- →Key advisor to the Chief of Staff, Executive Management, and clinicians; providing technical guidance on health information issues such as documentation requirements, liability issues, advance directives, informed consent, patient privacy and confidentiality, etc.
- →Recommends improvements in documentation used to provide patient care, to optimize VERA workload, third party reimbursement and to manage resources.
- →Conducts training programs in health information management, medical terminology, health record documentation, and medico-legal matters.
- →Incumbent is responsible for establishing formal affiliation with university programs in health information and precepting students from such programs.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process.
- ✓In addition to the application and questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment.
- ✓The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the 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.
- ✓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.
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