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 medical biller and coders to name the traits that have helped them achieve success in their careers. Here are the five qualities they named most often. If you possess them, a career in medical billing and coding could be a good choice for you.
Trait #1: The ability to work on your own, without close supervision. This trait was named by every medical biller and coder we polled.
Trait #2: The ability to focus, finish up and follow through on assignments.
Trait #3: Good organizational skills and the ability to calmly handle a backlog of work.
Trait #4: A willingness to work flexible hours.
Trait #5: Interest in working at home, or in starting a company. (Six of the people we polled are thinking about starting their own home-based businesses to process medical claims.)
Interesting: Only four of the 10 people we polled cited computer skills as being critical to success, and only three people cited medical knowledge. “Those are skills you learn in school,” one person told us, “you don’t need them before you decide to train for the profession.”
We’d like to hear from you about this topic. If you’re a professional medical biller and coder, what skills and qualities have helped you succeed?
Great information! Thanks!
Well that for sure is a different perspective that I had never thought of.