Supervisory Medical Records Technician

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; United States; Remote; USD 53,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, seeks a Supervisory Medical Records Technician (Coder) for the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System. This remote role oversees a team of MRTs and Coding Leads, focusing on workflow, quality, and coding accuracy.

Ideal candidates have VA coding experience across outpatient, inpatient, and surgical packages, plus prior MRT supervisor exposure. Full-time, Monday–Friday with standard federal benefits.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of VA coding experience in outpatient, inpatient, and surgical packages.
• 1 year of VA Lead Coder experience.
• Prior MRT Supervisor experience.

Responsibilities

• Provides oversight of Coding Leads and MRTs, directing work of staff.
• Evaluates performance and approves leave requests; identifies training needs.
• Maintains workflow, productivity, and reporting for coder unit.
• Reviews coding accuracy and provides guidance to staff to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Analyzes documentation systems to optimize workload and reimbursement.
• Ensures proper coding and sequencing per regulations and policies.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Medical coding

Leadership

Auditing

Regulatory knowledge

Communication

Job description

• Department: Department of Veterans Affairs
• Location: Anywhere in the U.S. (remote job)

This position is located in the Health Information Management (HIM) section at the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System. 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.

Key Responsibilities

The ECHCS Supervisor (Coder) provides oversight of a group of, Coding Leads, and MRTs, with administrative responsibility for planning and directing the work of subordinate staff. In conjunction with the Health Information Management (HIM) Administrator and BOSS staff. This Supervisor will oversee the prioritizing of work.

Duties include but are not limited to the following: 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. Assigns and distributes work to subordinates, establishes priorities, reviews work of MRTs through auditing and review of accuracy and productivity.

Maintains workflow and quality of work to assure timely accomplishments of workload. Monitors and maintains a reporting system(s) tracking workload of the coder unit. Monitors productivity for all staff. Schedules the sequence of work and operations on a daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly basis to assure even workflow and distribution, expeditious handling of priorities and the meeting of deadlines.

Revises schedules/assignments to meet changes in workload considering peak loads, availability of manpower and time limits. Makes changes in organization and assignment of duties to provide improvements, promote job satisfaction and increase productivity. Prepares workload and production reports; reports on operations and problems encountered; and presents proposed requests for resource needs based on past experience, anticipated staffing, equipment, and space.

Reviews coding and assist coders in improving coding accuracy; provides coding guidance to various levels of staff to promote consistency in practice and compliance with coding rules and regulations; initiates various reports and analyze data; and coordinates, assigns, and monitors the workflow. Analyzes and recommends improvements in documentation systems used to provide patient care to optimize VERA workload, third-party reimbursement, and to manage resources.

Reviews compliance monitors with subordinates and identifies training needs. Identifies training needs of individuals based on productivity and accuracy reports, rejects from billing, and spot checks. Works with VISN Coding unit auditors to insure facilities receive coding accuracy statistics.

Applies comprehensive knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy & physiology, disease processes, treatment modalities, diagnostic tests, medications, procedures as well as the principles and practices of health services and the organizational structure to ensure proper code selection. Monitors ever-changing regulatory and policy requirements affecting coded information for the full spectrum of services provided within the VA.

Assists facility staff with documentation requirements to completely and accurately reflect the patient care provided, provides technical support in the areas of regulations and policy, coding requirements, resident supervision, reimbursement, workload, accepted nomenclature, denials management, and proper sequencing.

Preferred Experience: Minimum 3 years of VA coding experience in outpatient, inpatient, and surgical packages, 1 year of VA Lead Coder experience, Prior MRT Supervisor experience. Please ensure you detail your experience within your resume as it relates to these responsibilities as well as the qualifications listed within this announcement. Work Schedule: Full Time, Permanent, Monday thru Friday. Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements & Education

IMPORTANT: 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.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $67970 – $88356/yr.

Is this position remote or telework eligible?

Yes, this position is fully remote.

What security clearance is required?

This position requires a Other security clearance.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-10-27.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.

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