Before shelling out $15K to someone selling you an ‘
opportunity’ aka as a ripoff – GO TO YOUR LOCAL COLLEGE and take classes in coding and learn it, then take the test(s), go to work for a doctor or hospital, and then .. MAYBE .. after a few years, they will trust you enough to let you take the work home. MAYBE!

Today, alot is being outsourced to Pakistan and India – until about 4 years ago when an Indian woman tried to blackmail a California man with is VERY personal, VERY private medical data which she gained by … yup, doing medical billing for a dumb doctor who thought saving cash was more important than patient confidentiality. Happened, FACT!

If you DO decide to continue on your own from home, just go buy C-Med software (thats my fav anyway – there are several others), learn IT, get the latest ICD-9’s (are updated annually & are SPENDY), then … go door knocking from doc to doc. You will find your shoe leather wears out before you get one doc to hire you because a) you are not a certified coder and therefore will most likely get a TON of bills kicked back, costing him major bucks, 2) you are not experienced enough to KNOW the major codes by heart which means you are slow. Slow means you dont make money.

Just like in medical transcribing – you may be able to type 140 wpm, but if you have NO idea what that doc is saying (and believe me, trying to figure out what a doc from anywhre but the USA is SAYING is, of itself, a JOB!) you cant do it! TAKE THE MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY CLASSES AT YOUR LOCAL COLLEGE – no need for a university or its prices and dont use one of those overpriced “Charter” schools or online ones either … these kinds of things REQUIRE in-CLASS education if you want to get your money’s worth and end up making money with your new education!

Medical Information Technology IS growing and FAST … within a decade we will be short approx 8,000 coders/billers per the US Dept of Labor but … BUT BUT BUT … they will NOT come from places like ABS or from online classes or from ‘teach yourself’ techniques. You will start out at around $36K (per your location) and within five years, you CAN earn up to $52K as a supervisor …. but that is after spending about $3000 for your education and then … going out and getting HIRED for a DOC or HOSPITAL and gaining experience and working your way up that nasty ol’ corporate ladder!

I am looking for investors for a business related to medicine. I need a plastic surgeon who wants to open a completely unique sort of ‘day spa’ with me for a very special segment of US population: rich, retired, getting OLD, and hating it! I have a well-researched idea with projections/costs, etc. Obviously, this is NOT a ‘work from home’ idea, nor is it cheap to be involved. In fact … it will cost about half a million PER angel investor to even be involved! Within 3 yrs, it will have paid for itself, and then some, a GREAT sum! This is NOT for anyone, its ONLY for interested plastic surgeons, willing to relocate to a specific area of Texas, and Alaska, or angel investors!

WELCOME TO 21ST CENTURY MEDICINE! Hippocrates is likely twirling in his grave!

I’m sure ABS has gotten it’s bucks from those who believe in things too good to be true, and has or will be moving on, to selling to the gullible a differently named “business opportunity.” Only an idiot would NOT check out a company trying to take $15,000 from people who can get the EXACT same information for FREE at the local library!

One thing I am quite sure they do not tell you … to perform medical coding, you must be certified. ANYONE can bill. You cannot just ‘look it up’ in a manual – “it” being either a procedure OR diagnostic code; you must have both. Care to quickly find what the procedure code is for fabric wrapping of abdominal aneurysm, and while you are at it, perhaps you have the diagnostic code memorized? You DO know there are two types of medical coders, correct? Hospital/clinic and doctor’s offices. QUICKLY and ACCURATELY are the two major key words for any setting! Do either wrong, and YOU lose cause the docs wont get paid, and neither will you. Know how many times insurance companies kick back bills ‘just cause?’ Yep … they’ll ask for chart notes, or say you coded it wrong — why? CAUSE THEY CAN – DO! The longer it takes for the doc to get paid, the longer the ins co has to use the policyholders money. Now, think about how much cash these ins companies actuall have – the INTEREST alone of rejected bills would nearly pay the national debt in half, IN ONE DAY. Yeah … I bet you get SOME of the bigger picture. And all you think you have to do is plug in some numbers from some manual or computerized program and tadah … you’re in like Flynn. Oh and um … just where do you think you are going to get your clients, ie, the docs, the hospitals and clinics? Most prefer IN-HOUSE and MANY send them overseas for nearly 75% LESS than YOU can charge!

The person who wrote this blog is doing EVERYONE a favor. And I think them! YOU should be, too, unless of course, you are with ABS, as I strongly suspect.

As for the comments in this blog it seems to be a draw between positive and negative and there are a few who are just axe grinders looking for a cause.

I am seriously considering purchasing an ABS franchise. I certainly don’t want to costly mistake. I am seeing a lot about medicalbillingbusinessresources.com. I would like to know from this blog if this company has all that is needed to start a medical billing company with the recourses that are offered through them? If any is interested in passing on some referrals it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.