Health Information
Specialist
Duties
and Responsibilities: Health information specialists post and
analyze medical, workload, fiancé, and insurance data. They make sure that this information is properly
recorded in the medical records. They do this so the practitioners can plan and
evaluate health care to the patients.
There are varieties
of jobs in this medical field. Some of which include a Registered Record
Administrator, Accredited Record Technicians, and Certified Coding Specialists.
The Administrators coordinate the information management responsibilities and
supervise the record technicians and the coding specialists. The record
technicians make sure that the medical records are up to date, coordinate the reimbursement,
and maintain disease registries for research. The coding specialists assign and
post the correct diagnosis and procedure codes to the records and report codes
to the insurance companies.
The health
information specialists work in hospitals, clinics, insurance companies,
physician offices, and other medical settings.
Salary: $20,000 - $25,000 (Coding
Specialists)
$23,000 - $30,000 (Record Technicians)
$30,000 - $40,000 (Record Administrators)
$23,000 - $30,000 (Record Technicians)
$30,000 - $40,000 (Record Administrators)
Education:
If students would like
to become a health information specialist then they should take business, information
management, science, math, and English in high school.
A coding specialist
needs to have a GED or a high school diploma. An accredited record technician
must earn an Associate’s degree from an accredited college program. A record
administrator must complete a bachelor’s degree program in the field and pass a
certification examination.
Reflection:
Do you think
you would like to become one? Why? Why not?
I would not
like to become one because I would enjoy having this job.
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