Health
Information Specialist
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Duties and Responsibilities:
Health
Information Specialist obtain, post, and analyze medical, workload, finance,
and analyze medical, workload, finance, and insurance data. They ensure that this
information is properly recorded into medical record so practitioners can plan
and evaluate health care provided to patients.
There are
variety of job specialists within this field including Registered Record
Administrators, Accredited Record Technicians, and Certified Coding
Specialists. Administrators coordinate the various information management responsibilities
and supervise record technicians and coding specialists. Record technicians
ensure medical records are accurate, coordinate reimbursement, and maintain disease
registries for research. Coding specialists assign and post correct diagnoses
and procedure codes to records and report codes to insurance companies
Health Information
Specialists work in hospitals, clinics, insurance companies, physicians’ offices,
and many more other medical settings
Average
Salary:
$20,000-$25,000
Coding Specialists
23,000-30,000
record technicians
30,000-40,000
record administrators
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