Health Information Specialist

                                Health Information Specialist

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Health information specialist obtains, post, and analyzes medical, work load, finance, and insurance data. They ensure that this information is property recorded into medical records so practitioners can plan and evaluate health care provided to patients.

There are a variety of jobs specialists within this field including registered records

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 records are accurate, coordinated reimbursement, and maintain disease registries for research. Coding specialist assign and post corrected diagnose and procedures 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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