I am a recovering biller,
Posted By: CrankyBeach on 2009-06-07
In Reply to: MT vs Coding/billing At Home? - Malania
and in my experience, the ONLY way you can work at home as a biller is to have paid your dues the hard way, by having established relationships with doctors' offices over a period of years, where they know you, they know you can do the work, and thus are willing to send it home with you.
I have known several people who have gotten caught up in the "work from home" fever and spent $$ on the alleged medical billing courses. Not one of them has managed to make a career out of it; in fact, none of them has even been able to snag a single client. So the whole thing was an enormous waste of money and time.
And this can only get worse as the entire medical reimbursement system goes further and further south. But that's another topic.
However... although transcription is not easy, and the money is nowhere near what it used to be, it isn't going anywhere soon. One of my co-workers, a recent Andrews graduate, got a job right out of school, working at home (with a 2-year-old), so that is known to be doable. If you choose the MT route, be sure you choose one of those two schools.
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