Health information
specialist
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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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