Coders or billers?
Posted By: Trish on 2008-12-08
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Anyone have any info on billing and coding that would help me choose a school or program, also if there is opportunity to work from home?
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coders turned MT? Any of you out sm
there that went from coding to MT? OR, MTs who went into coding? Love coding, hate coding? Not much talk amongst coders anywhere. I just wonder what it is like and if it is worth considering.
Amphion hires coders, too.
Don't know about the prospects of looking for a job. I don't know how much you make doing transcription of what you consider similar. I think coders probably start out in the mid-20s per year up to 40s with some experience. There are not as many billing jobs at home as there are remote coding opportunities. Hope that helps.
Amphion already uses at-home coders(sm)
Andrews School is the best and will get you your first job.
New coders have the same problem as new MTs....no experience, no job. nm
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How exactly are coders from home paid?
I always wondered how this worked. Thanks!
plenty of coders work from home....nm
Maybe you would have better luck posting this on the coders board.
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Because coding isn't as cut and dried as transcription is. Coders have to research a patient'
A doctor may say the patient has hypertension as a diagnosis, but the reality is there are a bunch of different codes for hypertension. There is no such thing in coding as plain old hypertension.
Same with certain procedures. There is a code for this procedure and a code for that procedure. BUT if you do this procedure WITH that procedure, then there is a whole nother code for that.
In order to have coding fully automated you would have to have software that could scan a patient's eletronic medical record record and then decide which diagnosis of hypertension best meets this patient's history and then assign the correct code. Plus with the enormous fines for medicare fraud and upcoding, no hospital is going to trust a computer to coding. Coders will probably end up editing codes same as we edit transcription from VR. Our jobs don't just disappear, they evolve.
Advance for Health Information Professionals. Mostly geared toward coders now. nm
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