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Medical Records Technician (HIT)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The Medical Records Technician Health Information Technician (HIT) is located in the Health Administration Service within the Truman VA Medical Center in Columbia, MO.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional This position is located in the Health Information Management (HIM) section at the Harry S.
- →Truman Memorial VA Hospital Columbia MO.
- →Health Information Technicians (HITs) review, analyze, abstract, compile, maintain, and extract information from the health record.
- →They also check for completeness and accuracy of the health record, and monitor and report for regulatory compliance.
- →Additional duties include, but are not limited to: Serve as a technical expert in health record content and documentation requirements.
- →Perform quantitative and qualitative reviews of health record documentation.
- →Ensure that all patient care data entered is accurate, timely, and completed.
- →Review records for adherence with guidelines related to student, resident supervision and attending physician presence and documentation.
- →Compile reports to ensure provider specific and service compliance, Maintain a control system to ensure completion of all inpatient and outpatient records.
- →Identify health record deficiencies, track deficiencies and ensure that the appropriate individual completes their deficiencies.
- →Expedite the completion of the health record when the patient is transferred for care at another medical center, for legal requests, regulatory agencies review and reimbursement purposes.
- →Assess the paper health record and electronic record for completeness and note deficiencies.
- →Prepare complex weekly and monthly reports noting the status of all incomplete/delinquent records and compliance reports and submits the reports to the appropriate administrative and clinical staff.
- →Identify, review, verify, and correct all statistical data concerning medical transcription.
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.
- ✓Physical aspects associated with work required of this assignment are typical for the occupation and would generally not require a pre-placement 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
Job ID: 84d51eab-afa1-4f60-9025-ead2656e3ae5
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