Medical Billing and Coding Blog
Jobs in Healthcare
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 [...]
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 [...]
Healthcare Technology and Obama’s "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act"
President Obama’s healthcare stimulus package will serve as a catalyst for the long-awaited shift to electronic medical records (EMR) in America. Obama addressed the American Medical Association in June and said that “We do a better job tracking a FedEX package in this country that we do tracking a patient’s health records”. Upon assuming the reigns [...]
The Right People for Medical Billing and Coding
Medical billing and coding professionals represent a small niche of a large medical community. Most healthcare professionals must possess great communication skills and have the ability to interact with all types of people. Medical billing and coders are unlike most healthcare professionals; they spend the majority of their days by themselves, often times never interacting [...]
What is a Certified Professional Coder?
A Certified Professional Coder (CPC) is the most basic and entry level of medical coders, and the first step that most take when starting a career in medical billing and coding. A prospective CPC must pass the medical coding certification exam, which is sponsored by the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC). To prepare for [...]
