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Medical Records Coordinator
Records requests handled cleanly, compliantly, on time.
A medical records coordinator owns the records request queue - patient requests, provider-to-provider requests, attorney and subpoena requests, and disability and FMLA paperwork. Staffing For Doctors coordinators turn requests around inside HIPAA timelines and keep release-of-information logs audit-ready.
What is a medical records coordinator?
A medical records coordinator owns the records request queue - patient requests, provider-to-provider requests, attorney and subpoena requests, and disability and FMLA paperwork. Staffing For Doctors coordinators turn requests around inside HIPAA timelines and keep release-of-information logs audit-ready.
What a medical records coordinator does day-to-day
Our medical records coordinators work the records request inbox daily, validate authorizations, redact where required, fulfill through your EHR's portal or via secure file transfer, and log every release. They also handle the disability, FMLA, and short-term-disability paperwork that providers usually defer.
Daily responsibilities of a medical records coordinator
- Daily records request triage and authorization validation
- Record retrieval, redaction, and secure delivery
- Attorney, subpoena, and audit response coordination
- Disability, FMLA, and short-term disability form completion
- Release-of-information log maintenance
- Outbound records request follow-up
Tools & EHRs supported
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