Medical Information Coder/Biller (6528)
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At a Glance
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This program prepares students for employment as medical coders and health insurance specialists. The medical coder is responsible for assigning correct diagnostic and procedural codes to medical documentation from patients’ medical records to assure appropriate medical insurance reimbursement and compliance. |
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Medical record coders review patient records and then assign and sequence diagnostic and procedural codes for symptoms, diseases, operations, and treatments according to a recognized numeric classification system.
About 2 out of 5 jobs were in hospitals. The rest were mostly in offices of physicians, nursing care facilities, outpatient care centers, and home health care services. Insurance firms that deal in health matters employ a small number of health information technicians to tabulate and analyze health information. Public health departments also employ technicians to supervise data collection from health care institutions and to assist in research.
Upon completion of this program, you may seek employment as an Information Medical Coder or Biller in a physician’s office, clinic or hospital. Information Medical billers and coders are employees that use the patient diagnosis and procedures and translate them into numeric code. Medical billers use these numeric codes to complete and submit claims to insurance companies for the professional services patients receive from their medical practitioner or medical facility.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
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Job Outlook |
Job prospects should be very good because of rapid growth in the number of medical tests, treatments, and procedures that will be increasingly scrutinized by health insurance companies, regulators, courts, and consumers. Also, technicians will be needed to enter patient information into computer databases to comply with Federal legislation mandating the use of electronic patient records. Although employment growth in hospitals will not keep pace with growth in other health care industries, many new jobs will, nevertheless, be created. The majority of new jobs are expected in offices of physicians as a result of increasing demand for detailed records, especially in large group practices. Rapid growth also is expected in home health care services, outpatient care centers, and nursing and residential care facilities. Additional job openings will result from the need to replace technicians who retire or leave the occupation permanently.
Florida's Employment and Outlook (State-wide)
Outlook: Increasing
Growth is estimated to be 25%
Job Openings: 457 estimated annual job openings (321 due to growth and 136 due to replacement)
Employment: 10,159 were employed in this occupation
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Salary Information |
Florida Earnings:
Average Annual Wage: $31,533
Entry Annual Wage: $21,611
Experienced Annual Wage: $36,504
Entry Hourly Wage: $10.39
Experienced Hourly Wage: $17.55
Average Hourly Wage: $15.16
Earnings will vary depending on organization experience, skills, responsibilities, type of certification and geographic location.
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Completion of the program will provide students with 34 credits, which may be applied to the Health Information Management Associate in Science degree.
Upon completion of the program students can sit for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) CCA certification examination and/or the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) CPC-A certification examination.
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