Emergency room registrar vs patient care representative

The differences between emergency room registrars and patient care representatives can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 1-2 years to become an emergency room registrar, becoming a patient care representative takes usually requires 2-4 years. Additionally, an emergency room registrar has an average salary of $33,811, which is higher than the $33,709 average annual salary of a patient care representative.

The top three skills for an emergency room registrar include patients, medical terminology and insurance verification. The most important skills for a patient care representative are patients, patient care, and home health.

Emergency room registrar vs patient care representative overview

	Emergency Room Registrar	Patient Care Representative
Yearly salary	$33,811	$33,709
Hourly rate	$16.26	$16.21
Growth rate	-	-4%
Number of jobs	101,528	133,317
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 38%	Bachelor's Degree, 39%
Average age	42	40
Years of experience	2	4

Emergency room registrar vs patient care representative salary

Emergency room registrars and patient care representatives have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Emergency Room Registrar	Patient Care Representative
Average salary	$33,811	$33,709
Salary range	Between $26,000 And $43,000	Between $27,000 And $41,000
Highest paying City	-	Boston, MA
Highest paying state	-	Alaska
Best paying company	-	Massachusetts General Hospital
Best paying industry	-	Technology

Differences between emergency room registrar and patient care representative education

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

	Emergency Room Registrar	Patient Care Representative
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 38%	Bachelor's Degree, 39%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	University of Pennsylvania	University of Pennsylvania

Emergency room registrar vs patient care representative demographics

Here are the differences between emergency room registrars' and patient care representatives' demographics:

	Emergency Room Registrar	Patient Care Representative
Average age	42	40
Gender ratio	Male, 14.9% Female, 85.1%	Male, 17.1% Female, 82.9%
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, 12.5% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 20.3% Asian, 6.3% White, 55.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.6%
LGBT Percentage	9%	7%

Differences between emergency room registrar and patient care representative 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.

Patient care representative example responsibilities.

Manage cash and co-payments accurately and discharge patients providing them with proper medical notes and information before exiting.
Verify insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, register patients, and code proper ICD-9 and CPT codes on encounters.
Utilize medical terminology, CPT, HCPC and ICD-9 and patient information into new authorizations.
Interview patients to gather information pertinent to their Medicaid application.
Screen, identify, and enter ICD-9 coding from treatment record forms.
Maintain patient confidentiality and follow HIPAA rules.

Emergency room registrar vs patient care representative skills

Common emergency room registrar skills

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

Common patient care representative skills

Patients, 25%
Patient Care, 13%
Home Health, 7%
Cash Management, 5%
Phone Calls, 4%
CPT, 3%

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