Health Information Specialist Part 1

Health Information Specialist

Part 1

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 medical records so practitioners can plan and evaluate health 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 technicians and coding 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 repost codes to insurance companies.

Health information specialist work in hospitals, clinics, insurance companies, physicians’ offices,  and many other medical setting.

Average Salary:

$20,000-$24,000 (Coding Specialists)

$23,000-$30,000 (Record Technicians) 

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