Medical Records Technician (Cancer Registrar)

Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center

If you are not a current, permanent VA employee or Federal employee from another agency, you should apply to CBST-12765921-25-JH.

Job Description:

Duties of the Medical Records Technician (Cancer Registrar) include, but are not limited to:

• Reads and comprehends detailed and complex medical information from patient medical records (computer system).
• Information to code meets regulatory agencies and state requirements and includes malignant and/or benign disease information including topography, morphology; laterality; SEER Extent of Disease; TNM stage; date, source, place and cause of death; quality of life and disease status at 4 months after registration; non-neoplastic condition that affect treatment; and referral diagnosis.
• Maintains clinical registries and work to meet the standards of regulatory and accrediting agencies related to approved cancer and/or other programs requiring registries.
• Adheres to the guidelines set forth by the American College of Surgeons (ACoS) in the Registry Operations and Data Standards (ROADS), the AJCC Staging Manual International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICDO), ICD-9, and SEER Surgical Codes when coding tumor registry abstracts.
• Independently codes a wide variety of medical diagnostic; therapeutic, and surgical procedures.
• Analyzes the consistency of abstracting of registry data, cancer diagnosis, and histology, treatment (including surgical procedures, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, hormonal therapy and radiation therapy.)
• Codes minimum number of charts based on time on the job with an error rate that falls within the departmental guidelines.
• Assists in developing, implementing policies and procedures to process, document, store and retrieve medical record information conforming to Federal, State and local statutes.
• Reviews abstracting/coding to ensure accuracy and communicate any discrepancies to the supervisor.
• Responds for maintaining the security and integrity of the administrative and clinical records in the possession of the cancer registry.

Basic Requirements:

United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
English Language Proficiency: MRT (Cancer Registrar) candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. § 7403(f).

Experience and Education:

• Experience. One year of experience that indicates knowledge of medical terminology and general understanding of the health record. Six months of the required one year of experience must have provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) needed to perform MRT work.
  OR
• Education. Two years above high school with a minimum of 12 semester hours directly related to MRT work (e.g., courses in medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, and introduction to health records).
  OR
• Experience/Education Combination. Equivalent combinations of experience and education are qualifying. The following educational/training substitutions are appropriate for combining education and experience:
  • Six months of experience that indicates knowledge of medical terminology and general understanding of the health record and one year above high school with a minimum of six semester hours of health information technology courses.
  • Successful completion of a course for medical technicians, hospital corpsmen, medical service specialists, or hospital training obtained in a training program given by the Armed Forces or the U.S. Maritime Service under close medical and professional supervision. Training may be substituted on a month-for-month basis for up to six months of experience, provided the training program included courses in anatomy, physiology, and medical record techniques and procedures. The position requires six additional months of experience that indicates knowledge of medical terminology and general understanding of the health record.
• May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria).

Apply Online: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/842250000