Medical Billing and Coding Blog
Archive for December, 2009
Do You Have What it Takes to Work from Home?
What does it take to work at home? What are the biggest mistakes to avoid? We asked those questions to a man who has worked from his home office for 20 years. Here’s his advice on getting the most from working at home: Plan to go through a transition period. Don’t expect to like home [...]
Five Tactics that Can Help You Get the Job You Want
CNNMoney.com released an interactive slideshow that provides several different key factors in locating and getting hired at the job that you want. The presentation, created by Jia Lynn Yang in April, 2009, is called “How to Get a Job”, and is “an interactive guide to navigating the worst job market of your lifetime”. We have [...]
Is Medical Billing and Coding the Right Career for You?
Are You Ready to Advance Your Career? is a fun, informative self-test that’s available free online at Queendom.com. If you take it, you’ll find that it delivers some useful perspective on where your abilities could take you in professional life. We took the test and liked it. It got us thinking. So we asked 10 [...]
How to Stand Out in Career Interviews
Your goal in a job interview is to show that you fit in, right? No, wrong, according to Debra Benton, a top leadership coach and author of CEO Material: How to Be a Leader in Any Organization and other bestselling books. According to Benton, your goal should be to stand out in interviews, not fit [...]
IBM Smarter Planet: Electronic Health Records for Evolving Healthcare
Electronic Medical Records are revolutionizing healthcare in America. The system will help create a more efficient system of care that will benefit both doctors and patients. Check out this video from IBM that gives some great information on electronic medical records, and provides some valuable footage of digital records in action. more about “IBM Smarter [...]
Five Reasons Why Medical Billing and Coding is Booming
1. Federal stimulus money is being poured into the cause. a. As part of President Obama’s “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009”, $19.2 billion is being invested into America’s transition to digital health records. b. John Kerry’s recent legislation “The Small Business Health Information Technology Act of 2009” will make family doctors and small medical [...]
The Impact of Healthcare Reform on Medical Billing and Coding… How Far Will the Boom Go?
How will your career be affected if healthcare reform becomes law? If you’re a billing and coding specialist or student, questions like these have probably been on your mind: • Will I see a big increase in demand for my services? • If coverage is increased for eldercare, women’s care and other targeted needs, will [...]
