Transportation Assistant

Job Title

Transportation Assistant

Duties

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Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Maintains communications with receiving facilities regarding beneficiaries return travel arrangements.
• Reviews requests for reimbursement of travel costs for the purpose of assuring compliance with regulations and procedures, completeness, accuracy, internal consistency, and agreement with basic authorization.
• Reconciles vouchers against authorizations for accuracy prior to preparing certification for payments. Responsible for balancing, reconciling, and adjusting invoices for payment.
• Prepares daily expenditure reports.
• Manages activities for beneficiary travel control points.
• Determines legal entitlement to travel reimbursement, applies deductible requirements and computes amount to be paid to beneficiaries.
• Maintains a master list of deductibles met for each month on every patient that visits this facility and authorizes or denies reimbursement accordingly.
• Process requests for travel reimbursement utilizing various systems to determine service connection eligibilities, hardship qualification, appointment verification at local and outside facilities, proof of address, and other criteria.
• Serves as record keeper and coordinator of patient funds on deposit.
• Maintains accounting records and control log.
• Records money from the Emergency Department safe and releases the money to the patients or, if necessary, next of kin, in coordination with Decedent Affairs.
• Responsible for the accuracy of all patient funds transactions, including all deposits and withdrawals.
• Determines if a Patient Funds account is restricted or unrestricted and indicates the status on each signature card and computer entry.
• Prepares and submits monthly Patient Funds monitors as required by the Fiscal Service in a timely manner.

Work Schedule: 8:00am - 4:30pm; Monday- Friday

Telework: Ad-Hoc

Position Description/PD#: Transportation Assistant / PD99910S and PD99689S

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Financial Disclosure Report: Not required