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Medical Records (Coder-Auditor)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The Medical Records Technician (Coder-Auditor) serve as experts of current coding conventions and guidelines related to professional and facility coding. Auditors perform audits of encounters to identify areas of noncompliance in coding.
What You'll Do
- →Work Schedule: 8:00am to 4:30pm, Monday-Friday Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized Remote: These approved positions are currently designated for a mid-term extension to the return to office mandate through October 2025.
- →While these positions may be filled as remote, the employee will be required to return to the office if the mid-term extension is not continued.
- →Therefore, all applicants must be located within 50 miles of a VA facility.
- →Telework: Once returned to the office Telework may be approved as ADHOC, depending on Supervisor approval.
- →Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Monitors ever-changing regulatory and policy requirements affecting coded information for the full spectrum of services provided by the VAMC.
- →Reviews assigned codes from the current version of several coding systems to include current versions of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), and/or Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS).
- →Applies guidelines specific to certain diagnoses, procedures, and other criteria used to classify patients, under the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) program that categorizes all VA patients into specific classes representing their clinical conditions and resource needs.
- →Responsible for performing audits of coded data, developing criteria, collecting data, graphing and analyzing results, creating reports, and communicating in writing and/or in person to appropriate leadership and groups.
- →Audits accurate and complete assignment of ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-CPT and/or ICD-10-PCS codes, MS-DRG, POA status, and discharge disposition values for health records as assigned.
- →Audit function includes evaluation of clinical documentation to support optimal code assignment.
- →Maintains statistical database(s) to track the results and validate the program for identifying patterns and variations in coding practices with regular reports to the medical staff and management.
- →Researches complex coding issues and participates in process improvements related to coding.
- →Provides training and education to coding and clinical staff to improve coding accuracy.
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.
Benefits
- ★A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.
- ★As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
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Personality Fit
Job ID: 61edf6cf-6321-47f5-a856-e862a18f9bb6
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