Is Medical Billing and Coding for You?

According to Bethany Despot, a medical billing and coding student studying at Northern Michigan University,

"I would recommend medical billing and coding to people who can learn new things. If you don’t like stress, I wouldn’t take this job. You do deal with angry patients sometimes, which they’re teaching us to do in our classes. If you’re prone to mistakes I wouldn’t take this job either, because a mistake could potentially cost a patient their life, not only you your job."

But one important final thought before we continue with our expansive guide to medical billing and coding - a note on work from home jobs. More and more people are looking to work from home, and medical billing is often considered to be a career that allows one to do so. However, according to a 2008 AAPC survey, two-thirds of medical billers are not permitted to work from home. On the other hand, this statistic also reveals that one third of medical coders are allowed to work from home at least some of the time.