Many people think that they just to a job in the medical billing industry as it is the same as at a Burger King and told the manager that you know how to make a Hamburger Patty on a grill and French fries in a vat of oil. This is not the case with medical billing, regardless of what part of the industry you get in. It is the comprehensive training and a set of rules and regulations, you need to be aware . On top of all, the better you handle a good technology, as most medical billing is quite advanced in this area.

For example. Let us take the task of medical Biller. First, you must be very detailed. There's so much to the filing of a claim to a carrier, irrespective of who the carrier is. In addition, each insurance carrier has its own rules and regulations. This is very confusing when you are with the government run carriers, such as Medicare and Medicaid.

While we are on the subject of rules and regulations, the Medicare handbook to read, if you have the chance. When you become a medical billing person for Medicare claims, you better know that book backwards and forwards.

What happens if you do not want that in the actual settlement of claims. Sure, there are other jobs in the industry. Sure there is. You can always become a programmer for a medical billing software company, if you are good with computers and programming languages. But if you decide to go this route, you have a better knowledge of the Company NSF specifications, as most large medical billing companies will send their applications electronically. To achieve this, the NSF specifications programmed into the system. And if they are a very big company, they may also appear on the UB-92 format. These formats are like day and night.

Sure, there must be something in this business that is easy to do. What about maintenance forms? Someone has to ensure that all forms of settlement, that the people to send paper claims. How difficult can it be to a request for a HCFA 1500 or a wheelchair CMN form? Well, you have to know what these forms look like. And because there are so many of them, you do not want to spending all day looking through the stock room to find that you want. You must be able to identify and quickly, which is a little bit of knowledge.

The list of things to do, and the problems associated with them do so without the knowledge is pretty endless. The problem is simple. Medical billing is heavily regulated. It's not as if you have a Hamburger Patty on a grill, where you can just about any kind of meetings and any kind of procedure, to put it on the grill, such as spatula or with your bare hands, using latex gloves of course. Medical billing is accurate. Everything must be done a certain way or just not paying claims. A T is not exceeded, which I do not dotted, and you are pretty much the creek.

No, medical billing is certainly not just a job. It is an adventure and then some.

Michael Russell

Your independent guide to Medical Billing