Supervisory Medical Records Technician - Coder

Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The Supervisory Medical Records Technician - Coder is directly responsible to the Assistant Chief of Health Information Management, who gives general guidance. The incumbent exercises independent judgment in carrying out duties and responsibilities and has complete limited authority to plan, design and direct. Major duties include, but are not limited to: Responsible for the supervision, administrative management, and direction of coding staff. Responsible for program management of a coding section/unit to ensure performance monitors are established and met. Evaluate the performance of subordinate staff, approve sick and annual leave requests, identify educational or training needs, resolve employee complaints, and take disciplinary action(s), when necessary. Inform higher level management of anticipated vacancies or increases in workload. Recommend employees for promotions, reassignments, recognitions, retention or release of probationary employees, or other changes of assigned personnel. Make decisions on the selection of employees for vacant or new positions. Serve as an expert coding resource to ensure accuracy and integrity of all coding. Collaborate with revenue, compliance, and other departments to support coding accuracy that is consistent with the official guidelines for coding and reporting. Resolve 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. Provide education to clinical and coding staff. Assess current audit findings and evaluate impact to coding and documentation practices. Oversee the reporting of coding and 28 documentation audit results to leadership. Collect and prepare data for studies involving inpatient stays and outpatient encounters for clinical evaluation purposes, prepare and maintain a variety of complex records and daily, monthly, or "on demand" reports, as requested. Creates and monitors outpatient reports, inpatient case mix reports, top DRGs, and key performance indicators to identify patterns, trends, and variations. Investigate and evaluate potential causes for changes or problems and collaborate with the appropriate staff to effect resolution or explain variances. Participate in the formulation of objectives and strategies utilizing coded data to support goals for patient care, teaching, research, and optimizing management of resources. Analyze and abstract patients' health records and assign alpha-numeric codes for each diagnosis and procedure. Expert in International Classification of Diseases (ICD), Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), and the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS). MRT (Coder) may also provide education related to coding and documentation. Work Schedule: Monday thru Friday; 7:30am-4:00pm Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade). Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience. 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. Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Telework: Not applicable, this is a remote position. Remote: Temporarily eligible for Remote work within 50 miles of a VA Medical Center. Position is remote work eligible and is currently on an extension for the return-to-office mandate. Remote positions are reviewed annually and do not imply permanent remote work status and may be required to comply with the return-to-office mandate in the future. Functional Statement #: 688-260488-F Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized