Health Information Specialist

Job Title: Health Information Specialist

Responsibilities include complying with privacy laws, processing patient forms, and ensuring that all patient medical records are accurate and organized for Physicians and other medical staff. Compile, process, and maintain medical records of hospital and clinic patients in a manner consistent with medical, administrative, ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements of the health care system.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.
• Review records for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with regulations.
• Monitor medical facility activities to ensure adherence to standards or regulations.
• Process patient admission or discharge documents.
• Perform clerical work in medical settings.
• Resolve or clarify codes or diagnoses with conflicting, missing, or unclear information by consulting with doctors or others or by participating in the coding team's regular meetings.
• Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.
• Release information to people or agencies according to regulations.
• Plan, develop, maintain, or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.
• Maintain medical facility records.
• Process medical billing information.
• Record patient medical histories.
• Process and prepare business or government forms.
• Prepare official health documents or records.
• Process healthcare paperwork.
• Consult classification manuals to locate information about disease processes.
• Maintain medical or professional knowledge.
• Other duties, as assigned

Competencies:

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

Communications - Expresses ideas and thoughts verbally; expresses ideas and thoughts in written form; exhibits good listening and comprehension; keeps others adequately informed; selects and uses appropriate communication methods.

Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation; able to deal with frequent changes, delays, or unexpected events.

Attendance/Punctuality - Is consistently at work and on time; ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent; arrives at meetings and appointments on time.

Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management direction; takes responsibility for own actions; keeps commitments; commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals.; completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.

Education and Experience

· Requires a high school diploma or equivalent, or

· Specialized training and/or certification.

· One year experience in a Health Information setting.

· Good verbal and written communication skills.

· Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) preferred.

Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Required)

Experience:

• Health Information: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• RHIT (Preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in St. Louis, MO 63141

Salary : $37,413 - $47,581