Medical Billing School – A Bad Investment
ClaimCare Medical Billing Services has interviewed countless candidates that have just graduated from a medical billing school and coding school. As a rule, we find that the courses in a medical billing school (and coding school) add little value or knowledge to the resume of an individual with no prior medical billing experience.
The majority of graduates we do hire start in our apprenticeship program – a position they could have obtained without a medical billing school investment. They start out alongside other apprentices that have no experience and no formal training in medical billing.
The reason for this is that the academic knowledge gained from medical billing school rarely translates well into practical, hands on medical billing skills. If anything, medical billing companies find that we have to undo incorrect concepts and lessons that have been learned in medical billing school. In addition, medical billing students often believe they have nothing left to learn and this makes them poor students in the real lessons of medical billing.
A better path into medical billing is to avoid spending money on a medical billing school and instead spend time finding a medical billing company or doctor’s practice that will let you start your medical billing career by calling on medical claims or verifying patient insurance information prior to the patient’s appointment.
Both of these activities give individuals a solid base for launching a medical billing career. They provide the individual with both a grounds up understanding of the building blocks of medical billing and a real medical billing job on their resume.
Finding a company that will allow you to start with these basic medical billing tasks may take a bit more effort than applying to medical billing school, but in the end you will have better medical billing skills, have a better resume and earn money while you learn the medical billing craft.
Once you have established skills as a medical biller, then it can be helpful to study for and take a certified coder exam. A certified coder with no medical billing experience, however, is not in great demand.
So, if you want to break into the field of medical billing please consider pursuing an apprenticeship model it will serve you (and your future employer) much better than a medical billing school education.
Copyright 2008 by Carl Mays II
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#1 Selling Item On Ebay
Like most of us online we have been selling on ebay with not much success.
Well the obstacles in your business are the underlying cause for virtually every failure on eBay and kill almost all your business. The thing about it, is that making money on eBay couldn’t be any easier. All that’s necessary is finding products that you can “buy low and sell at a profit”. This is the secret of making money on eBay — but it’s also the hard part. And this is precisely where many of the so-called how to make money on eBay courses miss the mark. Half-truths about Internet auctions have proliferated around the Web like an epidemic. It seems that everyone is offering a course about eBay about some wholesaler.
And so none of the programs adequately address the number 1 question that’s on every seller’s mind: “Where can I find items at ultra-deep discounts necessary to generate the big profits on eBay.” Right…..
But not only do these courses fail to answer questions — they merely focus on the initial phase of building a business on eBay. Although learning the basics is important, and will help you make some money at first — clearly these starter kits do not give you the insider strategies needed to grow your business.
And whats even worse is the fact that the courses are typically written by self-proclaimed marketing “gurus” — many of whom have never sold anything on eBay — or anywhere else for that matter.
Obviously, with such a lack of adequate training material available, it’s no wonder why so many people abandon their hopes of making money on eBay. Can you blame them?
So here are some quick and easy tips to making a fortune on ebay
1. Set your account up properly. This is overlooked many times in the beginning and will stop progress quickly
2. List your items correctly with no mistakes in the spelling. One mispelled word can cost you the sale or place your item in the wrong area.
3. Take clear photos The sale many times hangs on the photo …So take great pictures!
4. Look at other auctions. This is a short cut to see how you stand up against others……use their ideas also!
5. Free Shipping changes things This is where customers compare you to others…be free if you can.
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