Also called: Charge Description Master Coordinator, CDM Analyst
Maintains a hospital's giant price list of every service and supply, making sure each item is coded and billed correctly.
Gets a request to add a new heart-valve procedure to the price list. You assign the right billing codes, set the price and run a test bill to make sure it comes out correctly. You also post prices online as federal price-transparency rules require, and fix errors that make insurers deny claims.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in health information, finance or business, or coding certification plus experience.
Ways in: 4-year college, Certification, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Health Information Management, Finance, Business Administration.
Growing about average. Steady; every hospital needs one, few need many.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. AI will map codes and catch billing errors, so fewer analysts will oversee much larger price lists.
Classes: Math, Accounting, Computer applications.
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