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68G Patient Administration Specialist

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Overview

A Patient Administration Specialist performs administrative duties in the patient administration division of a hospital or other medical activity. The specialist also supervises patient administration work in those settings.

Minimum ASVAB: CL 90

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-18

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: smartbook-611-21-ch10c-fy2025 (source date 2025-12). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Civilian Career Paths

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Medical Records Specialists

Administrative work in a hospital patient administration division provides relevant healthcare administrative experience for a move into medical records work.

How to prepare: Take a medical-records course that includes practice compiling patient records and entering clinical data.

What the civilian work involves
  • Compile and maintain patients' medical records to document condition and treatment and to provide data for research or cost control and care improvement efforts.
  • Enter data, such as demographic characteristics, history and extent of disease, diagnostic procedures, or treatment into computer.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Epic Systems
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 68G Patient Administration Specialist

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 68G (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank enlisted, authority codeType enlisted

    Supports: Medical Records Specialists (O*NET 29-2072.00)

  2. O*NET: Medical Records Specialists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Medical Records Specialists (O*NET 29-2072.00)

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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 68G. Each history page explains the change.

91G3Patient Administration Specialist91G4Patient Administration Specialist91G5Patient Administration Specialist

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