Health information specialist

Part 1

Duties and responsibilities:

Health information specialist obtains, post, and analyzes 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 are a variety of job specialists 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 ensure medical records 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 specialist 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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