About the Position: This position is located at Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital's Patient Administration - Uniform Business Office in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. This is a Direct Hire Solicitation
Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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. Qualification Requirements for Uniform Business Office Manager: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes performing accounting and budget, using financial management regulations, policies and procedures; performing medical billing and collections; and providing guidance on standard operating procedures to employees. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09). OR Education: Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Finance or Business Management. OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.
Develop, implement, train, evaluate, and affect improvements for the Uniform Business Office operations.
Oversee the more complex Third-Party Collection and Medical Affirmative Claim bills.
Make personal determination of patient's eligibility to pay in-full or receive extensions of credit to make payments on account balances.
Interpret guidance prescribing and affecting administration of funds.
Oversee the Uniform Business Office billing and collection procedure, including authority for control, accounting, reporting, and processing actions relative to hospital services.