Health information specialist part 1

          Health information specialist

                           part 1

duties and responsibilities:

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

There are a variety of job specialties within this field including registered record administrators,

Accredited record technicians, and certified coding specialist.

Administrators coordinate the various information management responsibilities and supervise record technicians and coding specialist. Record technicians ensure medical record are accurate, coordinate reimbursement, and maintain disease registries for research. Coding specialist 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, physician offices, and man 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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