Health Information Specialist

Health Information Specialist

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Duties and Responsibilities:

            Health information Specialist obtains, post, and analyzes medical, workload, finance, and insurance data. They ensure that this information is property recorded into medical records so practitioners can plan and evaluate heath care provided to patients:

There 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 technician and coding specialist. 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, duties 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)