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Where are most coding jobs advertised? - nm

Posted: Sep 12, 2012

Two places - Coder

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For physician offices and clinics, they are often advertised locally, possibly on a website if the clinic is big enough. A lot are filled through the local chapter of the AAPC, or by networking.

For hospitals and medical centers, they will appear on their HR website. They may be advertised in national publications like those of the AAPC, FortheRecord, healthcare/HIM journals, etc.

You can also find them on the AHIMA and AAPC websites if you are a member, and sometimes headhunters have them.

Federal jobs will appear on www.usajobs.gov. There are copycat websites, so be sure you type as "gov," not .net or .com. Coding jobs are not always called coding, but they will appear in the classification for "medical record technician." i can't find the number, but you can find it there.

Higher level jobs in and around coding and compliance in HIM will be in classification "medical record administrative specialist," which is number 669.

These are the typical descriptions for those.

Medical Records Administrator/ Specialist

Medical Record Administrators manage, preserve, analyze, and supervise the use of diagnostic and therapeutic medical records/health information management. They develop policies and procedures, and provide advice on the use of medical records and health information management. Also included are positions assigned responsibility for a section of a medical record department as well as those assigned quality assurance, risk management, compliance, privacy, decision support, financial, or technology focused health information management responsibilities.

Medical Records Technician

Medical Record Technicians organize, process, and maintain medical records and health information. They assemble, review, analyze, code, abstract, maintain, compile, and extract medical record and health data. Medical Record Technicians check medical records for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with requirements of regulatory and accrediting agencies. Some Medical Record Technicians maintain clinical registries and work to meet the standards of regulatory and accrediting agencies. These health professionals usually work under the guidance of the Medical Record Administrator and are known by a number of titles depending on job function in the health care community. Terms may include health information technician, coder, tumor registrar, or registry technician.

Great information! - Thanks!

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This is information I've been wanting to have for a long time. Thanks for a very helpful message!

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