Emergency room registrar vs census taker

The differences between emergency room registrars and census takers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both an emergency room registrar and a census taker. Additionally, a census taker has an average salary of $38,585, which is higher than the $33,811 average annual salary of an emergency room registrar.

The top three skills for an emergency room registrar include patients, medical terminology and insurance verification. The most important skills for a census taker are confidentiality laws, census bureau, and paper forms.

Emergency room registrar vs census taker overview

	Emergency Room Registrar	Census Taker
Yearly salary	$33,811	$38,585
Hourly rate	$16.26	$18.55
Growth rate	-	-
Number of jobs	101,528	1,153
Job satisfaction	-	4
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 38%	Bachelor's Degree, 39%
Average age	42	42
Years of experience	2	2

Emergency room registrar vs census taker salary

Emergency room registrars and census takers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Emergency Room Registrar	Census Taker
Average salary	$33,811	$38,585
Salary range	Between $26,000 And $43,000	Between $21,000 And $68,000
Highest paying City	-	-
Highest paying state	-	-
Best paying company	-	-
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Differences between emergency room registrar and census taker education

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

	Emergency Room Registrar	Census Taker
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 38%	Bachelor's Degree, 39%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	University of Pennsylvania	Stanford University

Emergency room registrar vs census taker demographics

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

	Emergency Room Registrar	Census Taker
Average age	42	42
Gender ratio	Male, 14.9% Female, 85.1%	Male, 38.2% Female, 61.8%
Race ratio	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%	Black or African American, 12.6% Unknown, 5.4% Hispanic or Latino, 18.6% Asian, 5.3% White, 57.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.0%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between emergency room registrar and census taker duties and responsibilities

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.

Census taker example responsibilities.

Follow GPS locations to specific homes en route.
Use handheld GPS pinpoint navigation mapping system to input data for all addresses that exist or no longer exist.
Select to work on subsequent quality control operation along with other top enumerators.
Enter applicant data into DAPPS computer.

Emergency room registrar vs census taker skills

Common emergency room registrar skills

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

Common census taker skills

Confidentiality Laws, 13%
Census Bureau, 13%
Paper Forms, 10%
US Census, 8%
Conduct Interviews, 8%
Customer Service, 7%

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