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 are variety of job specialties within this field including Registered Record Administrators, Accredited Record Technicians, and Certified Coding Specialists. Administrators coordinated the various information management responsibilities and supervise record technicians and coding specialists. Record technicians ensure medical records are accurate, coordinate reimbursement, and maintain diseases 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, clinical, insurance companies, physician office, and many other medical settings.

   Average Salary

    $20,000- $25,000(Coding Specialists)

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

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