Job opening: Medical Admin Specialist
Salary: $67 743 - 88 065 per year
Published at: Jun 14 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is in the Business Office at the VA Manchester Healthcare System. This is a full time position at 40 hours per week working nights, weekends & holidays.
Duties
Provides medical administrative coverage for all Facility administrative duties during absences and irregular hours (Non-Policy Making). Assist with processing admissions. Assists with processing discharges. Assists with enrollment & eligibility for external customers about VA Health Benefits. Provides travel processing support for internal and external customers. Supports health information management systems with information and processing, presentation, and reporting. Maintains and pulls regular reports on multiple digital systems upon request. Coordinates communication between departments and leadership for any emergency situations. Interprets and instructs on established VA, Federal, and Local Policy, Procedures, and SOPs.
Provides medical administrative coverage for all Facility administrative duties during absences and irregular hours (Non-Policy Making). Assist with processing admissions. Assists with processing discharges. Assists with enrollment & eligibility for external customers about Health Benefits. Provides travel processing support for internal and external customers. Supports health information management systems with information and processing, presentation, and reporting.
Provides medical administrative coverage for all Facility administrative duties during absences and irregular hours (Non-Policy Making). Assist with processing admissions. Assists with processing discharges. Assists with enrollment & eligibility for external customers about Health Benefits.
Work Schedule: Full Time
Compressed/Flexible: Not Available
Telework: Ad Hoc
Virtual: This is not a virtual position
Position Description/PD#:Medical Admin Specialist/PD99368S
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
Physical Requirements: The work requires no special physical demands, but will require some physical effort such as standing, walking, bending or sitting.
Work Environment: The employee will be working in a busy office setting. Due to the varied duties assigned to this position and the requirements for timeliness, coupled with the sensitivity of personal contacts, the employee must perform in a highly stressful environment. The work area is usually an adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated office or medical facility setting. The work environment involves everyday risks or discomforts that require normal safety precautions. Employee may work in close proximity to mentally disturbed patients, and consequently, there is a possibility of physical abuse.
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement,07/01/2024.
Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS 09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07 level. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.
You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:
Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS 07 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Formulates, presents, executes, and analyzes organizational budgets. Plans, develops and conducts internal review studies in deficient areas including records management, and privacy issues. Utilization Review and Health Information activities, privacy, records management and the new scanning program. Interviewing and counseling Veterans concerning the law and regulatory guidelines on their enrollment and eligibility for health care benefits. OR,
Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related. The degree must be in a field that equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the Medical Administration Specialist position. OR,
Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond one year of graduate education.
Education
A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
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. You can verify your education here:
http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit:
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.
Contacts
- Address Manchester VA Medical Center
718 Smyth Road
Manchester, NH 03104
US
- Name: Christian DiNoia
- Phone: 774-826-4923
- Email: [email protected]
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