Medical Billing and Coding Blog
Archive for March, 2010
2010 Healthcare Reform – How It Could Affect Medical Billers and Coders
Did You Know: Medical Billing and Coding Blog is part of a network of blogs that discuss careers in the allied healthcare field. Check out our friends over at Medical Administrative Assisting Blog. President Obama won a hard-fought battle last week. After months of stalled progress and fiercely partisan debate, the House passed a sweeping [...]
Can “Cold Calling” Potential Employer Help You Get a Job?
According to Randall S. Hansen, founder of QuintCareers, cold calling potential employers can be a highly effective way to discover unadvertised jobs and get interviews with employers. “Cold calling, or uninvited job-hunting, is a proven method of finding employment,” writes Hansen on his blog. “When you consider that four-fifths of the job market is `closed,’ [...]
Low-Cost Office Accessories that Offer Big Benefits to Medical Billers and Coders
Is your work area more cluttered than calming? If so, here’s a selection of clever, innovative products that can speed your workflow. All are available at popular office superstores and online retailers – and all are priced at $25 or less. To organize files . . . Inclined desktop file sorters keep your working files [...]
Should You Add a Second or Third Job as a Medical Biller and Coder?
If you are offered a second or a third job as a medical biller and coder, should you take it? It can be tempting to say yes. After all, logging only a few hours in the evening could provide extra income. If a local urgent care center, chiropractor or other care provider has a backlog [...]
Why Medical Billing and Coding As a Career Change?
For those of you contemplating a career change and are thinking about healthcare, there are a few questions that you should ask yourself: - In what area of healthcare are you interested? - Do you want to work with patients? - Do you like to work with computers? - What type of work environment do [...]
State Alerts: What’s Happening in New York?
Is New York State a good place to build a career as a medical biller and coder? If you have been following the news from New York, things do not look too rosy at first glance. On January 19, New York Governor David Paterson released his proposal for a budget that will attempt to close [...]
Chronological or Functional: Which Resume Format Works Best for Medical Billers and Coders?
You probably know the two types of resume formats – chronological and functional. The question is, which format will work hardest to get you a job as a medical biller and coder In most cases, it depends on where you are in your career. A chronological format could work best if you have already started [...]
Electronic Medical Records at Westchester Medical Group
As we mentioned in a previous post, Five Reasons Why Medical Billing and Coding is Booming, General Electric is one of several major corporations who have invested in creating the best, and most efficient, system of electronic medical records (EMR). The video below was released by General Electric to provide a glimpse into one of [...]
How to Get Great Reference Letters
You’ve asked professors and professional contacts to write letters of recommendation for you. But how can you be sure that those letters are doing all they can to help you land jobs? You’ll find some great advice on this topic in the article “How to Obtain and Use References and Recommendation Letters” by Maureen Crawford [...]
