Do You Enjoy Your Medical Billing and Coding Career?

Video Transcript

Host Question:
Have you enjoyed your career in medical billing and coding career, and would you recommend it to others who may be considering this career path?

Medical Billing and Coding Expert Answer:
Yeah, I do. It has given me a pretty good life. And if I won lotto, I would still do it. So I guess that kind of answers it, right? I love my job and I love what I do for my company and this career path, and I recommend it all the time to people who just don’t know where to start. I’ve known a lot of people who just did not know what direction in life to go, but they knew they wanted a desk job. They knew they liked paper work, they like the analytical stuff. And I’m like, why are you not doing this? Because is easy to get into. Once you get into it, if that makes sense. So it is something that I recommend to everyone, especially if you’re a young adult and you feel stuck or you just don’t know which direction to go. And you’re looking for something that’s flexible because this offers so much flexibility.

Medical Billing and Coding Expert Answer:
I recommend it to anybody that has an interest in helping other people. And I will tell you the benefits of working in the medical field. When you work for a Kaiser or the local hospital group or anything like that, the benefits can’t be touched if they’re not Union. Usually your benefits begin on the first of the following month when you’re hiring. So you have full medical, dental, vision. I mean, you have a health care savings card. You can’t beat the benefits. And in today’s environment, benefits are very, very important. I’ve enjoyed what I’ve done. I’ve worked through different agencies. I’ve done travel coding where I was sent to Boston when they were switching over ICD-10 codes and was training providers out there for a couple of weeks. I went to Appleton, Wisconsin, but was work for a hospital group out there. Travel coding if you’re young and enhance what I mean. Hey, that’s the way to go.

Medical Billing and Coding Expert Answer:
I absolutely love my career in the medical billing and coding. If anyone is looking for something, they’re not sure. If you are a research type or person, if you love helping people, if you love being that answer, this is definitely the job for you. You can provide the answers to the providers, the patient, the front desk, you know, any staff member. But you also can be that guiding light for that practice where you’re like, oh, I know this, I’ve dealt with this. We can handle it this way. And you answer that question through those patients where they call, they’ve got a question about a deal. You can do all of that and enjoy it. Love every minute.

Medical Billing and Coding Expert Answer:
Yes, I have loved my career and can’t wait to see where it takes me. I enjoy learning new genres. I’m doing neurosurgery right now, as we’ve already said. Can’t wait to see, what I’ll do next. It’s a rewarding career. It makes me feel important to keep up with the doctors books and after talk to them. It makes me happy to have something of my own. I have kids. I have a husband. They don’t know anything about brains, but, mom does. It is rewarding and I would recommend it to other people.