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Under the general supervision of a higher-level supervisor, Health Information Associates collect, analyze, abstract, and code health information for reimbursement, statistics, and mandatory reporting, coordinate their services with billing operations, and administer the health information of patients in an outpatient or clinical operation. The Health Information Associate (HIA) usually allocated in a hospital or outpatient clinic setting, belongs to a class series that provides health information management through the collection, analysis, abstracting, and coding of inpatient or outpatient healthcare-related services. The HIA is characterized by its focus on outpatient health information management and less complex coding, usually of clinic services and routine diagnoses and procedures, and abstracting of health information. The typical assignment is in an outpatient facility, clinic, or limited-diagnosis specialty provider of medical services and advice. These positions differ from those belonging to the higher-level Health Information Technician class in that the latter is the full journey-level classification providing inpatient and outpatient abstracting and complex coding services. HIAs are generally supervised and their work product periodically reviewed for accuracy and completeness, billable reimbursement and revenue maximization, and conformity to applicable laws and regulations, departmental requirements, International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-CM) Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, and The Joint Commission standards.
