What Jobs Can You Get With A Medical Billing and Coding Degree?

Video Transcript

Host Question:
What can you do with the medical billing and coding degree or certification? Could you just give us a high level overview of the different types of jobs or different career paths you could go down?

Guest Answer:
It can be quite complex. Some people go for billing and coding like a combine certification. Then they find out that right after they start and get a little experience, they start to learn that it’s really separating billing, being more like an accounting career and coding being more of a technical translation career. So that’s like the next step up, realizing that you need to pick one of those two paths. After you get there, then you’re realizing you could talk about working on the documentation, helping the providers get better documentation. You could work on the computer systems themselves, the accounting systems, the data management systems, the coding systems. You can get more into managing the files and the records. You can get into deeper levels of coding. Specify in one type of specialty of care like neurology, and then say, oh, I’m bored of that. I want to go do obstetrics. You could do that, too. You can work on the insurance company side. You can work on the health care provider side. You can work on the institutional like the hospital side. So there are so many things that you can do that’s just a few.

Guest Answer:
In the medical billing and coding field. Healers don’t necessarily need to have a degree, nor do they need to have a certification. You can come in with a high school diploma as a medical biller, but coding is a little different. Coding, they generally require some kind of certification, not necessarily a degree. I went to local community college. I was going to be a medical assistant but flipped over into the coding because puzzles love it, you know? So I graduated with that two years of community college. It really depends on what your goals are. I encourage anybody that’s interested in this field really look at what are your personal goals? Do you just want to be in your cubicle and this is what you want to do today? You die or do you want to move up, get into management, or maybe get into some other aspects of health care when you have the basics of health care under your belt and I’m talking about medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, once you have that information, you can go in a lot of different directions.

Guest Answer:
There are so many options from private clinics to big hospitals, also known as in-house billing. So if you do billing for a hospital or private clinic, you’re their in-house biller. And then there are plenty of third party billing companies where you might service multiple clinics or even multiple hospitals, and then there’s plenty of freelance work. It’s pretty common, but I found it was a lot harder to get into until I had more experience in the field.

Guest Answer:
So a lot of people, they do the combination, as I do with my company, where they’re doing the medical billing, coding, payment posting, you know, revenue cycle management pretty much. There are people who enjoy just the billing part where they’re working with just the insurance numbers. And there are others who love the Kotlin version where it’s like adding a new code like, you know, you know, access to the client. I want to figure out it’s a lot of research to be able to figure out the diagnosis code that should be connected to a zip code or the CPC code which should be connected to my diagnosis. So vice versa. And so a lot of the it literally intrusions to once a day more anyone with the medical billing, coding certification they can help, are set up because a lot of it is like the coding portion in what’s required. We know what has to happen for like the revenue assistance, what it’s to get the information we need or like the details of a chief complaint, any provider notes that are. So it’s really a lot in very broad of what you can do with a medical billing circumstance. Yahoo