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 practitioners can plan and evaluate health care provided to patients.

These are a variety of job specialties 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 specialties. 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, physician offices, and many other medical settings.

Average Salary:

$20,000-$250,000(coding specialties)

$23,000-$30,000(coding specialties)

$30,000-$40,000(coding specialties)       

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