246Y00000X
246Y00000X — Health Information Specialist/Technologist
- Grouping
- Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
- Classification
- Specialist/Technologist, Health Information
- Specialization
- None — this code IS the classification
- Section
- Individual
Definition
An individual with a high school diploma, on-the-job experience and coding education from seminars or college classes who passes a national certification examination in either inpatient and outpatient facility services coding, or physician services coding.
NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.
Other codes under Specialist/Technologist, Health Information
These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.
- 246YC3301XCoding Specialist, Hospital Based
- 246YC3302XCoding Specialist, Physician Office Based
- 246YR1600XRegistered Record Administrator