This position is in the Health Information Management (HIM) section of Patient Business Services (PBS) at the Columbus VA Ambulatory Care Center. MRTs (Coder) are skilled in classifying medical data from patient health records in the hospital setting, and/or physician-based settings, such as physician offices, group practices, multi-specialty clinics, and specialty centers.
Coding practitioners analyze and abstract patients' health records and assign alpha-numeric codes for each diagnosis and procedure. Outpatient Medical Record Technicians (Coder) select and assign codes to outpatient episodes of care, and/or inpatient professional services from current versions of ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS classification systems.
Duties include but are not limited to: Utilize the facility computer system and software applications to code, abstract, record, and transmit data. Correct any identified data errors or inconsistencies in a timely manner to ensure acceptance in the national VA database within established timelines.
Work within a team environment; support peers in meeting goals and deadlines; flexible and handle multiple tasks; work under pressure; and cope with frequently changing projects and deadlines. Adhere to accepted coding practices, guidelines and conventions when choosing the most appropriate diagnosis, operation, procedure, ancillary, or evaluation and management (E/M) code to ensure ethical, accurate, and complete coding.
Monitor ever-changing regulatory and policy requirements affecting coded information for the full spectrum of services provided by the VMCC. Timely compliance with coding changes is crucial to the accuracy of the facility database as well as all cost recovery programs. Perform a comprehensive review of the patient health record to abstract medical, surgical, ancillary, demographic, social, and administrative data to ensure complete data capture.
Assist facility staff with documentation requirements to completely and accurately reflect the patient care provided; provide technical support in the areas of regulations and policy, coding requirements, resident supervision, reimbursement, workload, accepted nomenclature, and proper sequencing. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 7:30am-4:00pm Telework: Available, Reg Teleworks 6+ Days/PP Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 93713-A, 93714-A, 93715-A, 93716-A, 93717-A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized
Medical Records Technician (Coder-Outpatient), GS-8 Experience. One year of creditable experience equivalent to the next lower grade level. Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. In addition to the experience above, the candidate must demonstrate all of the following KSAs: Ability to analyze the health record to identify all pertinent diagnoses and procedures for coding and to evaluate the adequacy of the documentation.
This includes the ability to read and understand the content of the health record, the terminology, the significance of the findings, and the disease process/pathophysiology of the patient. Ability to accurately perform the full scope of outpatient coding, including ambulatory surgical cases, diagnostic studies and procedures, and outpatient encounters, and/or inpatient professional fee services coding.
Skill in interpreting and adapting health information guidelines that are not completely applicable to the work or have gaps in specificity, and the ability to use judgment in completing assignments using incomplete or inadequate guidelines. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities.
Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Reference: For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-08.
The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is in the range of GS-04 to GS-08 Physical Requirements: The work is sedentary. Typically, the employee sits comfortably to do the work. However, there may be some walking; standing; bending; carrying of light items such as papers, books, records, or driving an automobile, etc. No special physical demands are required to perform the work. 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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Latoya.Walker3@va.gov · (980) 234-8852
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $37992 – $75803/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-11-13.
This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.
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