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51.07Health and Medical Administrative Services

Career paths in this area

Health Information Technician, Coder and Medical Office Administrator SOC 29-2072

⚠⚠⚠ Three different routes wear this name in Florida, they are taught at roughly the same number of institutions, and only ONE of them leads to the field's professional credential. Health information management — 31 institutions, and the associate degree is what makes you RHIT-eligible. Billing and coding — 37 institutions and the largest output, all clock-hour certificates, none of which does. Medical office administration — 36 institutions into an occupation of 850,000 people with no credential ladder at all. ⚠⚠ Choosing wrongly does not waste a term; it forecloses the credential.

Health Care Administrator SOC 11-9111

Running the non-clinical half of health care — budgets, staffing, quality, compliance, revenue, regulators. $123,860 median, 616,200 employed, 62,100 openings a year, growing much faster than average. ⚠⚠ There is no required major: Census microdata puts HEALTH first at 169,319 people, BUSINESS second at 75,396 and PSYCHOLOGY third at 47,154. ⚠⚠⚠ But Florida statute puts a price on the choice — on the nursing home side, a health administration major halves the required training programme from 2,000 hours to 1,000.

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Administrative Services Managers SOC 11-3012
Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators SOC 13-1031
Compliance Officers SOC 13-1041
Computer Programmers SOC 15-1251
Education Administrators, Postsecondary SOC 11-9033
Facilities Managers SOC 11-3013
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers SOC 43-1011
Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars SOC 29-9021
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other SOC 29-9099
Managers, All Other SOC 11-9199
Medical Transcriptionists SOC 31-9094

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