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Supervisory Medical Records Technician (Coder)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 19 days ago
Remote United States $68K – $88K Apply by Jul 2, 2026 Medical Records Technician ESFJESTJISFJISTJ Trades
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This Supervisory Medical Records Technician (Coder) position is located within the Health Information Management (HIM) Service Line at the VA Bedford Health Care System. This position is full-time at 40 hours per week.
What You'll Do
- →Supervisory Medical Record Technicians (Coder) are responsible for supervising coding staff at the facility level.
- →Supervisory MRTs (Coder) must be able to perform all duties of a MRT (Coder).
- →The supervisory coder is responsible for the supervision, administrative management, and direction of coding staff.
- →They are responsible for program management of a coding section/unit to ensure performance monitors are established and met.
- →Major duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: Performs a full range of supervisory responsibilities, to include evaluating the performance of subordinate staff, approving sick and annual leave requests, identifying educational or training needs, resolving employee complaints, and taking disciplinary actions, when necessary.
- →Informs higher level management of anticipated vacancies or increases in workload.
- →Recommends employees for promotions, reassignments, recognitions, retention or release of probationary employees, or other changes of assigned personnel.
- →Serves as an expert coding resource to ensure accuracy and integrity of all coding.
- →Collaborates with revenue, compliance, and other departments to support coding accuracy that is consistent with the official guidelines for coding and reporting.
- →Resolves claim edits referred to coding management and monitor reports for outstanding services, rejects, or uncoded episodes of care for inpatients and/or outpatients.
- →Ensures claim denials related to coding errors are resolved, and/or daily coding rejects are corrected for accurate billing and data collection.
- →Assesses current audit findings and evaluate impact to coding and documentation practices.
- →Oversee the reporting of coding and documentation audit results to leadership.
- →Collects and prepares data for studies involving inpatient stays and outpatient encounters for clinical evaluation purposes, prepares and maintains a variety of complex records and daily, monthly, or "on demand" reports, as requested.
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.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical 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: 21e56fff-cc8f-449c-a5fc-07c0d21f3408
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