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Entry Level MEDICAL BILLING and CODING Training Available
United Career Services - Charleston, WV
Are you looking for a meaningful job? Do you like helping others? Do you have an interest in health and medicine? Enjoy the healthcare field but don't like the hands-on clinical aspect Are detail oriented and meticulous when it comes to their work Know the principles of the computer and how to find answers to problems Would you like to enter a career in an expanding field? If you answered 'yes' to five or more of these questions, then billing and coding might be the right career choice for you. Medical billing and coding specialists work for practicing physicians and licensed healthcare practitioners in small to large group practices, dental offices, pharmacies, nursing homes, mdical care facilities and clinics, rehabilitation centers, hospitals, insurance companies, health maintenance organizations...
Does this refer to companies like cearner or ECAOS ?
ReplyDeleteHey Felix, That is a good question. Cerner and E-CAOS are competing with CISCO and other companies to develop electronic (paperless) medical record and billing services for the healthcare system. Hospitals and doctors offices can realize huge savings in both time and money by making this transition.
ReplyDeleteThe beginning of the whole process, though, begins with input of data, or information, by (you guessed it) a real live human being. Once the data is entered, it begins a complex journey through data bases and data base analysis software, which the above mentioned companies are racing to deveolp. Federal stimulus money is fueling this development. These companies are developing primarily software, and some hardware, to equip medical facilities with billing, medical record, and clinical data information processing capabilities.
But as was mentioned, the data entry is primarily handled by real live persons who are trained to translate what the doctors, and other medical staff, are doing into some form of code that can be digitally processed.
At the vanguard of this process is the ubiquitous medical coder. Naturally there have to be standards to guarantee consistant and accurate results in coding.
Hospitals and Physicians offices prefer their own special flavor of coders. (see http://wisegeek.com/how-do-i-get-a-medical-coder-certification.htm )
With the baby boomer bubble morphing into a senior citizen bubble, digital medical data entry is going to be in great demand. Coders are essentially the translators who do that job. Rumor has it that in West Virginia, the demand for coders is going to be so great that in order to fill those positions, people will have to have this work taken to them, wherever they may live. That will be a viable alternative to traditional office, cubical farm, centers of employment, thanks to the internet.
The Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC)is looking to hire people to fill entry level positions and provide on the job training, with a view to their advancing in coding skills to fill the need for the more demanding tasks. I can't say what is happening in other metropolitan areas around the country. But the demand is growing, and the money is flowing.
With a little help from GOOGLE you my just be able to find out what the demand for medical coders looks like where you live.
If you find out, Felix, would you mind letting me know. And thanks again for your question.