Education

• Educational requirements include a high school diploma or GED.
  
  

Skills

• Most employers require an X-ray office clerk to have some understanding of medical terminology and coding, as well as excellent customer service skills and the ability to handle multiple priorities.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Administrative duties include answering office telephones, scheduling patients, maintaining radiology films and sending films or related medical information to other medical offices as requested.
  
  

Medical Coding and Billing

• Along with administrative responsibilities, X-ray office clerks maintain medical records and insurance information using a database to ensure patients are billed correctly and payments are received for radiology services from health insurance providers.
  
  

Salary

• The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a national average salary of $27,700 per year for general medical and surgical hospital office clerks as of May 2008.