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Medical Records Technician (Coder)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 11 days ago
Remote United States $65K – $85K Apply by Jun 12, 2026 Medical Records Technician ESFJESTJISFJISTJ HealthcareFinanceTrades
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This position in the Health Administration Service at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. MRTs (Coder) Auditor 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
- →Major duties include but are not limited: Perform audits of encounters to identify areas of non-compliance in coding.
- →Facilitate improved overall quality, completeness, and accuracy of coded data.
- →Assist facility staff with documentation requirements to completely and accurately reflect the patient care provided.
- →Provide technical support in the areas of regulations and policy, coding requirements, resident supervision, reimbursement, workload, acceptednomenclature, and proper sequencing.
- →Directly consult with the clinical staff for clarification of conflicting or ambiguous clinical data.
- →Use computer applications with varied functions to produce a wide range of reports, to abstract records, and review assigned codes.
- →Perform prospective and retrospective coding audits and use results to identify documentation, coding inadequacies, and re-educate clinical and coding staff based on audit results.
- →Act independently to plan, organize, and perform auditing with emphasis on data validation, analysis, and generation of reports.
- →Assist in the development of guidelines for data quality, consistency, and monitoring for compliance to improve the quality of clinical, financial, and administrative data.
- →Ensure that all coded data is fully documented and supported.
- →Maintain statistical database(s) to track the results and validate the program.
- →They identify patterns and variations in coding practices with regular reports to the medical staff and management.
- →Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
- →Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
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.
- ✓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.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 363b18b8-b9f7-4a62-a049-dffbcd24e381
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