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Employee Insurance Examiner 1

Grade 11

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Career Ladder

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  1. Employee Insurance Examiner 1

    Grade 11

  2. Employee Insurance Examiner 2

    Grade 14

Summary of Job Description

As an Employee Insurance Examiner 1, you would process transactions and respond to correspondence for the New York State Health Insurance Program (NYSHIP) for health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits. Using various types of communication (phone, email, letters) you would communicate with enrollees or state or local government agency Health Benefits Administrators (HBAs) in maintaining enrollee health benefit records. In addition, you would respond to New York State health benefits coverage and enrollment questions from enrollees and HBAs, use health and human resource information systems such as the New York Benefits Eligibility and Accounting System to perform the duties, and interpret NYSHIP and Civil Service Laws, rules and regulations that apply to employee benefits programs.

View the classification standard for this title, on the Classification and Compensation webpage.

The NYS Title and Salary Plan provides additional information regarding other titles. If there is a classification standard available there will be a link under the column labeled STD. NO. If no link is available there is no classification standard available at this time for that title.

Summary of Minimum Qualifications

Please note: qualifications for this position may be subject to change. If substitutions for education and/or experience are allowed, this information would be available on the announcement.

You must take and pass a Civil Service examination in order to be considered for this title.

There are two examinations for this position. Please note: New York State employees may qualify for both.

For employees of New York State, on or before the date of the written examination, you must be a qualified employee of New York State and have had three months of permanent competitive, non-competitive, or 55-b/55-c service in an office assistant, clerical or keyboarding title allocated to Grade 6 or higher.

For all other qualified individuals, on or before the date of the examination, candidates must have:  

Either 1. three years of business or human resources office experience in one or more of the following: accounts payable, accounts receivable, processing claims and/or bookkeeping; processing personnel, benefits and/or time and attendance transactions;

Or 2. thirty college semester credit hours AND two years of business or human resources office experience in one or more of the following: accounts payable, accounts receivable, processing claims and/or bookkeeping; processing personnel, benefits and/or time and attendance transactions;

Or 3. sixty college semester credit hours AND one year of business or human resources office experience in one or more of the following: accounts payable, accounts receivable, processing claims and/or bookkeeping; processing personnel, benefits and/or time and attendance transactions.

For informational purposes only, click on the examination number(s) listed below to see the current or previous examination(s) that are used to fill this title.

00-469 26-723

How to Apply

When this examination is scheduled to be held, the announcement can be found on the Department of Civil Service, Examination Announcements web page. If you do not see an examination currently scheduled please check back on a monthly basis or sign up for announcement notification by email so that you will automatically be notified when new examinations are being offered.

Career Mobility

Career mobility is not just limited to the titles in the Career Ladder, above. Additional movement may be achieved through other examinations, additional education and/or work experience or transfer opportunities. For additional information or clarification of transfer determinations, current State employees should contact the Career Mobility Office. Visit ELMS Online to view established open-competitive, promotion, and transition eligible lists. If you are not a current New York State employee, see Employment Opportunities with New York State and find out how to become a New York State employee.

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