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Medical Reimbursement Technician

Veterans Health Administration

Department of Veterans Affairs

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Location

Salary

$41,400 - $59,994

per year

Closes

February 18, 2026More VA jobs →

GS-6 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $37,764 - $49,094

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-5. Bachelor's degree + some experience.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves handling medical billing and insurance claims for veterans' healthcare, ensuring accurate reimbursements and collections while verifying patient eligibility.

It suits someone with administrative experience in healthcare or billing who is detail-oriented and good at following procedures.

A good fit would be a reliable team player comfortable with data review and communication in a government office setting.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience at GS-05 level (or equivalent) involving administrative data review, claim validation, and insurance interpretation
  • For current federal employees: 52 weeks at GS-05 with proof via SF-50 form
  • Education alternative: 4 years above high school from accredited business, secretarial, or technical school (transcripts required)
  • Combination of education and experience acceptable, with education beyond 60 semester hours creditable
  • Ability to follow instructions on timeliness, priorities, and objectives for administrative tasks
  • Skills in communicating with staff on administrative concerns and determining data appropriateness
  • Knowledge of validating claims for billing, ensuring eligibility, and referring coding issues

Full Job Description

This position is located at the Central Consolidated Patient Accounts Center, Billing and Insurance Verification Departments in Leavenworth, KS.

The Medical Reimbursement Technician performs a broad range of duties to achieve established and expected results for medical billing and reimbursable and non-reimbursable collections.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/18/2026.

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-06 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. 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: GS-05 Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-04 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Follows instructions about timeliness, objectives and relative priorities for doing administrative work.

Communicates with other staff as necessary to discuss administrative concerns. Reviews and determine the appropriateness of administrative data.

OR Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have 4 years above high school.

This education must have been obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university. Transcripts required.

OR Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level.

You must have a combination of specialized experience and education to meet the total experience requirement.

Only education in excess of the first 60 semester hours (i.e., beyond the second year) is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirement.

One full academic year of study (30 semester hours) beyond the second year is equivalent to 6 months of specialized experience.

This education must have been obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university. Transcripts required.

GS-06 Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-05 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Follows instructions about timeliness, objectives and relative priorities for doing administrative work.

Communicates with other staff as necessary to discuss administrative concerns. Reviews and determine the appropriateness of administrative data.

Validates claims for billing purposes ensuring eligibility and referring questionable coding for review. Interprets insurance policies and requirements for billing.

As a general rule, education is not creditable above GS-5; however, graduate education may be credited in those few instances where the graduate education is directly related to the work of the position.

This education must have been obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Major Duties:

***THIS IS NOT A VIRTUAL POSITION; YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION*** Validate claims for billing purposes ensuring eligibility and referring questionable coding for review.

Submit claims to 3rd party health Insurance Carriers, with knowledge of Medicare coverage benefits. Interprets third party insurance policies and requirements for billing.

Take responsibility for Medicare reimbursable billing activities. Follow instructions about timeliness, objectives, and relative priorities for doing work.

Handle conflicting goals, objectives, priorities, timelines, and deadlines. Exhibit flexibility in adapting to changing demands within specific timelines.

Accept and completes work provided by a standardized control system such as batched work, caseload level, or other defined structure.

Use a wide range of office software applications such as Microsoft Access, Excel, and Word. Compose correspondence on a situational basis.

Process billings using ICD-10-MC, CPT/4, and HCPCS codes timely.

Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met.

Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 08:00am-04:30pm.

Compressed/Flexible: May be discussed to meet the needs of the agency. Telework: This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Medical Reimbursement Technician/PD36017A, 36108A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/4/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/5/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: CBZY-12877781-26-KV