Uniform Business Office Technician

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About the Position: Serve as Uniform Business Office (UBO) Technician for Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia Directorate of Resource Management.

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes preparing and submitting claims to responsible parties, and utilizing automation systems to reconcile financial data.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-06). Major Duties:

• Compare account balances in various financial and billing information systems with related data to assure agreement.
• Perform various functions which support all phases of the Medical Affirmative Claims, Third Party Liability, Medical Services Accounts, Third Party Collections Elective Cosmetic Surgery and Inter-Agency Billing programs.
• Assist with under-paid or unpaid claims.
• Provide technical guidance to other personnel regarding assigned areas of responsibility.
• Audit daily work for use of appropriate International Classification of Disease and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, clinical rate, and payment posted to accounts and denial or reduced payments compliance guidelines.
• Coordinate with the Inpatient Records staff to ensure inpatient records are approved in a timely manner and solicits verification of outpatient visit codes, when indicated, to facilitate efficient and expeditious billing.