Health Information Specialist

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Duties and responsibilities:

Health information specialists obtain, post, and analyze medical, workload, finance, and insurance data. They ensure that this information is properly recorded into medical records so practitioners can plan and evaluate health care provided to patients.

There is a variety of job specialist within this field including Registered Record Administrators, accredited records technicians and certified coding specialists. Administers coordinate the various information management responsibilities and supervise record technicians and coding specialist. Record technicians ensure medical records are accurate, coordinate reimbursement, and maintain disease registries for research. Coding specialists assign and post correct diagnosis and procedure codes to records and report codes to insurance companies.

Health information specialists work in hospitals, clinics, insurance companies, physicians’ offices, and many other medical settings

Average Salary:

$20,000 - $25,000 (coding specialist)

$23,000 - $30,000 (Record Technicians)

$30,000 - $40,000 (record Administrators)

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