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 properly recorded into the medical records so practitioners can plan and evaluate health care provided to patients.

There are varieties of job specialties within this field including registered record administrators coordinate the various information management responsibilities and supervise record technicians and cooling specialists record technicians ensure medical records are accurate, coordinate reimbursement, and maintain disease registries for research. Coding specialists 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   officers, 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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