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Medical Coding and Billing information is littered all over the internet. In all honesty, I find the majority of it to be fluff and misinformation and people just trying to convince you to buy into courses that cost $6,000 so they can make a commission even though they’ve never done any of that type of work themselves.

Reader Submitted Question:

I would like to take a course on medical billing and/or coding so that I can work at home over the summer. Which course do you recommend? Also, is this work difficult and do many medical companies hire home workers for this?

Disclaimer about the advice I am about to give: These are my own personal opinions based on my business experiences and research I’ve done online.

Most of the programs that are offered online for this that promise work from home opportunities for medical billing and coding are a huge waste of time. You can always look at your local community college or find a doctor/hospital with a medical billing internship program if this something you are truly interested in. As a side note, small town doctor’s offices are usually more willing to train someone new for doing their billing than those in the bigger cities.

Most offices and hospitals will require you to work in house for at least a year, sometimes 2 or more years, before allowing you to telecommute. The same goes for medical transcription. Security being the main reason for this. Think about the information you give your doctor… it would be completely irresponsible for them to hand that off to just anyone.

If your main goal is to work only from home, medical billing/coding/transcription is probably not the best path to take. While I realize that’s not the advice or information anyone wants to hear, it’s my honest opinion on the subject and something I tell people often.

To further elaborate on the amount of work at home jobs available in this field for those wondering…

I’ve been working from completely from home since 2001 and in that time I have been a member of so many wahm groups, forums, email lists, communities, message boards, and chat discussions that I lost count ages ago. I’ve met hundreds of work at home moms and entrepreneurs virtually and quite a few in person as well. In all that time, with all that networking, with all that chatting, I’ve only ever met ONE person that did medical billing from home, and she didn’t even work 100% from home, she was in the office Monday and Thursday, and at home Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. It took her nearly five years to convince her boss of that arrangement.

I hope you found this information helpful. If there is anything I can do to help you further, please don’t hesitate to email me, fill out our Ask a Question form, or a leave a comment here.

Kind Regards,

P.S. If you are interested in learning about general transcription as a work at home business I have put together Transcription Crash Course with resources and examples that I use in my own transcription business.