Translates healthcare diagnoses, procedures, and services into standardized ICD-10, CPT, and HCPCS codes used for insurance billing and medical records. Works in hospitals, physician offices, and remote billing companies.
Pay
$42,000
Lower reported wage
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Not available in our data
$71,000
Upper reported wage
Annual U.S. salaries. Actual pay varies by location, employer, and experience. The lower and upper figures do not represent starting and senior salaries.
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No dedicated Medical Coder SOC. Mapped to 29-9021, the same aggregate used for Health Informatics Specialist. The sub-occupation 29-2072 Medical Records Specialists also captures coding work — SOC 2018 defines 29-2072 as including medical coders by name and as excluding 29-9021, and vice versa, so the two are mutually exclusive. BLS lists 29-2072's typical entry-level education as a postsecondary nondegree award, which is where the certificate shown here comes from. The one-year length is an estimate — BLS does not distinguish certificate lengths.
Annual median review, October 27, 2026: Medical coding is explicitly included under Medical Records Specialists (29-2072) in SOC 2018, whereas the stored wage mapping is 29-9021. No median is assigned from either group until the role mapping and its labor-market fields are reconciled together. Sources: https://www.bls.gov/oes/2025/may/oes_stru.htm . Existing employment and projection figures were not refreshed.
SOC 29-9021BLS EP 2025-35Verified 2026-04-28View on BLS
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