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Medical Support Assistant (Advanced)- (Ward Administration)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 129 days ago
About the Role
The Primary Purpose of the Position is: To perform a variety of administrative and clerical duties associated with determining eligibility, receiving, admitting and discharging patients in support of veterans' treatment in outpatient clinics and inpatient care units at these facilities. The Organizational Location of the Position is: Health Administration Service, VA North Texas Health Care System (VANTHCS).
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The Advanced MSA provides specialized and expert administrative patient support while working collaboratively in an interdisciplinary coordinated care delivery model.
- →Work involves specialized administrative judgment and the flexible use of a wide range of clinical flow processes relating to access to care across multiple clinics, specialties, and/or care in the community resources.
- →Recommends changes to existing clinic procedures based on current administrative guidelines.
- →Expertise in utilizing numerous advanced patient systems in support of multiple clinics involved in an interdisciplinary coordinated care delivery model.
- →Coordinates with the patient care team to review clinic appointment availability (utilization) to ensure that clinic schedules are closely monitored to effectively support the needs of the clinics and makes adjustments as necessary.
- →Answers questions such as those dealing with the patient's eligibility for services, availability of appointments, procedures for obtaining an appointment, requests for appointments and/or appointment changes.
- →Schedules, cancels, reschedules, follow-up and/or consult appointments.
- →Processes emergency and nonemergency transfers to other VA facilities or private hospitals.
- →Monitors, request, scan, and updates patient insurance information via insurance buffer software (ICB-NTX-live) and or the Pre-registration program.
- →Verifies, updates, and confirms current demographic information, and use of Integrated Scheduling System (ISS) and/or Veterans Health Information and Technology Architecture (Vista) software packages- preregistration menu when patient's check-in for their scheduled or unscheduled appointment.
- →Provides comprehensive on the job training to new and existing staff in their respective area of responsibility as needed.
- →Uses the Integrated Scheduling System (ISS) or Vista information system and databases or spreadsheet software to schedule appointments; create, enter, revise, sort or calculate, and retrieve data for reports; review alerts from providers; and enter patients' appointment data, providers' labs, pharmacy and/or radiology request, and annotate/update patient record.
- →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.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 069951bf-327e-40b5-bcb6-5c39b074d50e
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