The business, data, and tech side of healthcare: the people who run hospitals, manage records, and make the software and data work.
Top pay: highest pay, longest training
Hospital Chief Executive Officer: Leads an entire hospital or health system: strategy, finances, quality, and thousands of employees. Typical pay $350k.
Medical & Health Services Manager: Runs departments, clinics, or practices so doctors and nurses can focus on patients. Typical pay $118k.
Chief Medical Information Officer: A physician who leads how a health system uses electronic records, data, and AI. Typical pay $350k.
Healthcare Data Scientist: Builds models from medical data to predict which patients will get sicker, return to the hospital, or need help. Typical pay $113k.
Revenue Cycle Director: Oversees how a hospital gets paid: billing, coding, insurance claims, and collections. Typical pay $130k.
Chief Medical Officer: Senior physician executive responsible for the quality of medical care across a hospital or health system. Typical pay $420k.
Health Information Manager: Manages patient records, privacy, and data quality for a hospital. Typical pay $80k.
Healthcare Compliance Officer: Makes sure a healthcare organization follows the law, from billing rules to patient privacy. Typical pay $80k.
Cancer Registrar: Collects detailed data on every cancer patient so researchers can track treatments and survival. Typical pay $62k.
Healthcare Risk Manager: Reduces a hospital's legal and safety risks and handles incidents when things go wrong. Typical pay $100k.
Population Health Manager: Uses data to keep a whole group of patients healthier, not just treat them when they're sick. Typical pay $105k.
Healthcare Recruiter: Finds and hires doctors, nurses, and other clinicians for hospitals and clinics. Typical pay $68k.
Chargemaster Analyst: Maintains a hospital's giant price list of every service and supply, making sure each item is coded and billed correctly. Typical pay $75k.
Patient Transfer Center Coordinator: Works a hospital's air-traffic-control desk, arranging transfers of critically ill patients from smaller hospitals. Typical pay $78k.
Transplant Financial Coordinator: Figures out how a patient will pay for an organ transplant, which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, before they join the waitlist. Typical pay $68k.
Clinical AI Specialist: Helps hospitals choose, test and safely roll out AI tools, like note-writing assistants and early-warning alerts, working between doctors, nurses and tech teams. Typical pay $105k.
Starter: fastest way in
Medical Coder: Translates diagnoses and procedures into standard codes that insurance companies use to pay bills. Typical pay $50k.
Medical Biller: Sends bills to insurance companies and patients and follows up on unpaid claims. Typical pay $45k.
Patient Access Representative: Registers patients, verifies insurance, and collects information when they arrive at the hospital. Typical pay $39k.
Health Unit Coordinator: Keeps a hospital floor organized: phones, paperwork, admissions, and discharges. Typical pay $40k.
Medical Transcriptionist: Turns doctors' recorded dictations into written medical reports. Typical pay $37k.
Medical Credentialing Specialist: Verifies that doctors and nurses have valid licenses, training, and insurance before they treat patients. Typical pay $50k.
Medical Claims Examiner: Reviews medical insurance claims to decide what gets paid. Typical pay $50k.
Release of Information Specialist: Handles requests for patients' medical records from lawyers, insurers and patients, releasing only what privacy laws allow. Typical pay $40k.
Medical Administrative Assistant: Runs the front desk of a doctor's office or clinic: checking patients in, scheduling, handling insurance and keeping records in order. Typical pay $46k.
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