Registry Technician pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 39026
- Class code
- 39026
- Pay scale group
- ST 05
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Registry Technician is $46,827 to $70,592 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 39026.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
The Commonwealth job specification for this class is published by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration. The passages below are quoted from it as published, not paraphrased, and cut to their opening sentences; the full specification is the authority on duties and qualifications. It was last revised 07/02/2024.
What the state says the job is
This is specialized technical work analyzing, editing, and consolidating health data for incorporation into a public health registry. An employee in this job supports a public health registry by evaluating and consolidating reported disease cases. Work involves applying standards, coding conventions, and complex registry-specific rules to case corrections; creating patient and incident records by evaluating and consolidating health data reported by health care facilities and practitioners; determining best values among disparate information; and validating consolidated records for completeness and accuracy by resolving edit errors. Work also involves validating the format and content of data files and performing other technical procedures required to incorporate data into a public health registry.
Examples of the work
• Resolves patient linkage discrepancies by determining if multiple sources reported data on the same person, thus influencing the number of incident or patient records in the public health database. • Determines if multiple reports on the same person represent the same or different disease or treatment by applying complex multiple primary determination rules. • Selects best value to represent an incident or event record from data reported by multiple disparate sources by applying standards and registry policies. • Reviews coded data and text fields provided in all disparate data sources to resolve errors and discrepancies when reports fail automated processing directives.
Minimum qualifications
• Three years of experience as a Clerical Assistant 3 or Medical Records Assistant (Commonwealth titles) working with vital events, cancer, or immunization registries within the Pennsylvania Department of Health; or • Three years of complex clerical experience working in the collection and maintenance of vital events, cancer, or immunization registry data; or • One year of technical healthcare data management experience and an associate’s degree in a health or healthcare related field; or • An associate’s degree in a Health Information Technology (HIT) program; or • Eligibility for certification as an Oncology Data Specialist (ODS) as specified by the National Cancer Registrars Association, ...
Quoted from the Commonwealth job specification, read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration publishes this figure in Classification and Pay Plan (online, current annual salary ranges). Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
The Commonwealth also links this class code to its own job title and specification. That page is the official description of the classification; this page publishes its pay range.
The listed pay scale is available in the Commonwealth's current ST schedule.