Facts

• Health Services is one of the largest industries in the country with more than 11 million jobs.
• About 13 percent of all wage and salary jobs created between 2000 and 2010 will be in health services
• Nine out of 20 occupations projected to grow the fastest are concentrated in health services.
• Most jobs require less than 4 years of college education

Medical Records (Coding Specialists) are one of the projected fastest growing occupations.  Most coders will be employed by hospitals but job growth will be faster in offices and clinics of physicians, nursing homes and home health agencies.

Job prospects for formally trained coders should be very good, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.   Employment of medical record coders is expected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations through 2010.  This is due to the rapid growth in the number of medical tests, treatments, and procedures that will be increasingly scrutinized by third-party payers, regulators, courts and consumers.  For more information on this occupation, go to the U.S. Department of Labor link provided below.
http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos103.htm