Medical Records Technician

About the role

Join the Indian Health Service and make a meaningful impact in Native communities. In this role, you will support vital healthcare operations that ensure patients receive timely, high-quality care. If you're looking for a rewarding career where your work directly supports patient services and community well-being, we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities

• Scanning, indexing, and filing of non-electronic medical and administrative information/forms.
• Maintains daily log of documents scanned, filed, and indexed.
• Responds to customer requests for information in a positive and efficient manner.
• Performs qualitative reviews on work performed by self and other scanned documents.

Requirements

Physical effort is expended through prolonged sitting, standing, walking, stooping, bending, kneeling, lifting, reaching and pushing carts, and climbing stairs and step stools and ladders.

Qualifications

• GS-5: 4 years of education above high school with creditable education related to the position being filled OR 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-4 grade level.
• GS-6: 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-5 grade level.

Skills

To qualify for this position, your resume must demonstrate sufficient experience and/or education to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are applying. Examples of specialized experience for this grade level are conducting quality control checks of scanned records, processing requests for release of information, maintaining medical record tracking logs, and communicating with healthcare providers and staff to ensure accurate and complete patient records.

Benefits

This position may be covered by a Bargaining Unit. Promotion to the next grade level is at management's discretion and is based on your demonstrated ability to perform the higher level duties, the continuing need for the higher level duties, and "Regulatory/Administrative" approval. Promotion to the next higher grade level is not guaranteed and no promise of promotion is implied.

Pay

The pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job.

Schedule

May include 24/7, holidays and weekend schedules.

Additional Information

• Reasonable Accommodation (RA) Requests: If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental) covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended that would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you will be granted the opportunity to request a RA in your online application.
• You will be asked to certify that your responses are written in your own words and that you did not use a consultant or artificial intelligence tool to write your responses.