Emergency room registrar vs registration specialist

The differences between emergency room registrars and registration specialists 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 registration specialist takes usually requires 2-4 years. Additionally, an emergency room registrar has an average salary of $33,811, which is higher than the $30,422 average annual salary of a registration specialist.

The top three skills for an emergency room registrar include patients, medical terminology and insurance verification. The most important skills for a registration specialist are patients, customer service, and medical terminology.

Emergency room registrar vs registration specialist overview

	Emergency Room Registrar	Registration Specialist
Yearly salary	$33,811	$30,422
Hourly rate	$16.26	$14.63
Growth rate	-	-4%
Number of jobs	101,528	79,118
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 38%	Bachelor's Degree, 38%
Average age	42	40
Years of experience	2	4

Emergency room registrar vs registration specialist salary

Emergency room registrars and registration specialists have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Emergency Room Registrar	Registration Specialist
Average salary	$33,811	$30,422
Salary range	Between $26,000 And $43,000	Between $23,000 And $40,000
Highest paying City	-	Boston, MA
Highest paying state	-	Massachusetts
Best paying company	-	Deloitte
Best paying industry	-	Health Care

Differences between emergency room registrar and registration specialist education

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

	Emergency Room Registrar	Registration Specialist
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 38%	Bachelor's Degree, 38%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	University of Pennsylvania	University of Pennsylvania

Emergency room registrar vs registration specialist demographics

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

	Emergency Room Registrar	Registration Specialist
Average age	42	40
Gender ratio	Male, 14.9% Female, 85.1%	Male, 14.5% Female, 85.5%
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, 10.7% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 18.0% Asian, 6.0% White, 59.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.7%
LGBT Percentage	9%	7%

Differences between emergency room registrar and registration specialist 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.

Registration specialist example responsibilities.

Attain and authenticate patient insurance information, counsel patients on changes in insurance policies, verify patient demographics.
Help patients through the registration and admitting processes and also contribute to the PBX department.
Input data entries for insurance billing; adding CPT codes and diagnosis from face sheets as patients arrive.
Act as hospital PBX operator.
Complete all charge entry, enter all CPT and ICD-9 codes for billing for multiple doctors each day.
Enter patient information and verify information according to HIPAA regulations.

Emergency room registrar vs registration specialist skills

Common emergency room registrar skills

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

Common registration specialist skills

Patients, 25%
Customer Service, 14%
Medical Terminology, 8%
Patient Registration, 5%
Insurance Verification, 4%
Data Entry, 4%

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