Grade 13
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Taxpayer Services Specialist 1
Grade 14
Information Technology Specialist 1
Grade 14
Grade 14
Motor Vehicle License Examiner
Grade 12
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New York State has approximately 167 positions* in this title statewide. You may view a breakdown of positions by county. This position exists in Health, Department of. View links to all New York State agencies including agencies that have this title. For more information, New York State employees can contact the Career Mobility Office at (518) 485-6199 or (800) 553-1322. If you are not a current New York State employee, you can use the Department of Civil Service Web site to explore possible employment opportunities.
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A listing of titles that are most commonly used as steps for upward mobility for this title series. The salary schedule for this career ladder is also available.
Medicaid Eligibility Examiner Trainee
Similar to Grade 06
Medicaid Eligibility Examiner 1
Grade 09
Medicaid Eligibility Examiner 2
Grade 14
Medicaid Eligibility Examiner 3
Grade 17
Medicaid Eligibility Examiner 4
Grade 21
As a Medicaid Eligibility Examiner 2, you would supervise subordinate staff and perform duties related to the New York State Medicaid Program and other public health insurance programs within the Department of Health. You would plan and conduct staff training in response to revised regulations or procedures, schedule work and monitor workload as well as quality assurance of work completed by staff. You would develop and review eligibility scenarios to test new computer applications and systems. You would process basic and more complex eligibility applications and address specific concerns for resolution of more complex applications that require interpretation of policies and procedures or additional investigation.
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.
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 position.
On or before the date of the examination, the candidate must have four years of full time experience performing at least one of the six activities listed below in any of the following programs that: provides reimbursements for health care services; works with social services program areas; determines eligibility for a consumer assisted program in a hospital or other health care facility; provides health care regulatory oversight; or performs quality assurance and interpretation/application of standards of health care.
Activities:
1. determining eligibility for a health care or consumer assisted program in which financial eligibility criteria must be met;
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2. performing utilization review, including pre-payment or post-payment review of requested health care services, prior approval or authorization activities, adjudication or pricing of claims for payment; or analysis of patterns of health care;
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3. determining reimbursement and financing of health care services, including rate-setting or approval, establishing capitation reimbursement methodologies, assessing fee schedules, coding constructs for medical goods and services, or applying/processing of reimbursement methodologies;
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4. performing quality assurance activities such as ensuring compliance with laws, rules, regulations, and policies;
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5. inspecting, assessing, or monitoring health care programs or facilities for certification, licensure or adherence to laws, rules, regulations, and policies;
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6. planning, designing, developing, researching, or evaluating proposals to establish or refine programs, with ongoing responsibility for interpreting legislation or regulations, defining/describing target populations and local demographics, grant/proposal writing, or developing, reviewing, and evaluating contracts.
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.
80-194When 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 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.