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Employment opportunities exist in a variety of health care settings including hospitals, physician offices, clinics, insurance companies, and rehabilitation centers. The skilled coder is highly valued as the demand for quality coding and extensive interaction with physicians, financial staffs, insurance representatives, and government personnel.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor and Industry, employment of medical records and health information technicians is expected to grow much faster than average for all occupations through 2014 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.
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