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Medical Records Technician (Coder) Auditor
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 13 days ago
Remote United States $63K – $82K Apply by Sep 16, 2026 Medical Records Technician ESTJISFJISTJ HealthcareFinanceTrades
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This position is located in the Health Information Management (HIM) section at the Kansas City VA Medical Center. MRTs (Coder) Auditors are skilled in classifying medical data from patient health records in the hospital setting, and/or physician-based settings, such as physician offices, group practices, multi-specialty clinics, and specialty centers. These coding practitioners analyze and abstract patients' health records, and assign alpha-numeric codes for each diagnosis and procedure.
What You'll Do
- →Duties consist of significant scope, complexity (difficulty), range of variety, and be performed by the incumbent at least 25% of the time.
- →Auditors must be able to perform all duties of a MRT (Coder).
- →Auditors serve as experts of current coding conventions and guidelines related to professional and facility coding.
- →Auditors perform audits of encounters to identify areas of non-compliance in coding.
- →They facilitate improved overall quality, completeness, and accuracy of coded data.
- →They provide recommendations on appropriate coding and are responsible for maintaining current knowledge of the various regulatory guidelines and requirements.
- →They assist facility staff with documentation requirements to completely and accurately reflect the patient care provided.
- →They provide technical support in the areas of regulations and policy, coding requirements, resident supervision, reimbursement, workload, accepted nomenclature, and proper sequencing.
- →They directly consult with the clinical staff for clarification of conflicting or ambiguous clinical data.
- →They use computer applications with varied functions to produce a wide range of reports, to abstract records, and review assigned codes.
- →They perform prospective and retrospective coding audits and utilize results to identify documentation and coding inadequacies and re-educate clinical and coding staff based on audit results.
- →They act independently to plan, organize, and perform auditing with emphasis on data validation, analysis, and generation of reports.
- →They assist in the development of guidelines for data quality, consistency, and monitoring for compliance to improve the quality for clinical, financial, and administrative data to ensure that all coded data is fully documented and supported.
- →They maintain statistical databases to track the results and validate the program.
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.
- ✓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.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 704f3a75-cfc3-4b8b-8018-41187c7e776e
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