Cancer registrar vs emergency room registrar

The differences between cancer registrars and emergency room registrars can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 6-12 months to become a cancer registrar, becoming an emergency room registrar takes usually requires 1-2 years. Additionally, a cancer registrar has an average salary of $49,393, which is higher than the $33,811 average annual salary of an emergency room registrar.

The top three skills for a cancer registrar include patients, CTR and medical terminology. The most important skills for an emergency room registrar are patients, medical terminology, and insurance verification.

Cancer registrar vs emergency room registrar overview

	Cancer Registrar	Emergency Room Registrar
Yearly salary	$49,393	$33,811
Hourly rate	$23.75	$16.26
Growth rate	11%	-
Number of jobs	11,722	101,528
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Associate Degree, 42%	Bachelor's Degree, 38%
Average age	45	42
Years of experience	12	2

Cancer registrar vs emergency room registrar salary

Cancer registrars and emergency room registrars have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Cancer Registrar	Emergency Room Registrar
Average salary	$49,393	$33,811
Salary range	Between $33,000 And $72,000	Between $26,000 And $43,000
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Differences between cancer registrar and emergency room registrar education

There are a few differences between a cancer registrar and an emergency room registrar in terms of educational background:

	Cancer Registrar	Emergency Room Registrar
Most common degree	Associate Degree, 42%	Bachelor's Degree, 38%
Most common major	Health Care Administration	Business
Most common college	University of Southern California	University of Pennsylvania

Cancer registrar vs emergency room registrar demographics

Here are the differences between cancer registrars' and emergency room registrars' demographics:

	Cancer Registrar	Emergency Room Registrar
Average age	45	42
Gender ratio	Male, 7.8% Female, 92.2%	Male, 14.9% Female, 85.1%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 9.6% Unknown, 4.2% Hispanic or Latino, 17.5% Asian, 8.7% White, 58.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.3%	Black or African American, 12.7% Unknown, 5.4% Hispanic or Latino, 22.4% Asian, 4.7% White, 53.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.0%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between cancer registrar and emergency room registrar duties and responsibilities

Cancer registrar example responsibilities.

Process release of information requests according to HIPAA regulations and manage valuables safe for entire facility.
Assign TNM and AJCC staging codes to newly diagnose cancer patents.
Provide coordination of cancer committee require by ACOS to meet accreditation standards.
Work for DHMC for this time period helping DHMC get up to date w cancer abstracts and the NH state cancer registry
Obtain patient insurance information and forward to business department for approval of out-patient surgery.
Train new employees and registrars.

Emergency room registrar example responsibilities.

Manage Medicare, Medicaid environment and third party reimbursements.
Maintain direct involvement in interviewing patients and gathering demographic data and account information, as well as in validating insurance coverage.
Complete paperwork and enter all info into MediTech database.
Handle all patient information according to NYSDOH according to HIPPA compliance.
Register patients for walk-in lab and x-ray utilizing ICD9 and CPT coding.
Maintain data accuracy in MEDITECH to provide quality assurance and financial process in order to have prompt collections.

Cancer registrar vs emergency room registrar skills

Common cancer registrar skills

Patients, 20%
CTR, 11%
Medical Terminology, 10%
Abstracts, 8%
Data Collection, 6%
COC, 5%

Common emergency room registrar skills

Patients, 43%
Medical Terminology, 5%
Insurance Verification, 5%
Customer Service, 4%
Patient Care, 4%
Data Entry, 3%

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