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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