Q&A: Medical Office Information Technology a good career?
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Question by bcakEs85: Health check Personnel Information Technology a excellent career?
interested in this course at a local technical college..only a yr program and i am wondering if its a excellent job? where can you work and pay hourly? Thankfulness for any info
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Answer by jannsody
The course sounds kind of like a health check personnel assistant or ‘health check personnel specialist’ which may teach basics in health check billing, data entry, answering phones and making appointments as well as customer service skills. Unfortunately, there aren’t supposed to be too many jobs for the health check (personnel) assistant (or health check biller or coder) despite what those private $ $ for-profit tech schools say. Most employers prefer applicants that have at least 1-2 years experience in the field to possibly get the job.
If you’re still interested in training, please deliberate one of the county schools such as the county vo-tech teach or community college are more affordable and tend to be more regulated than those private for-profit tech schools.
For general career info: http://www.bls.gov/oco and can search.
US colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/planet/univ
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I have served over 20 years in the health check field. I have educated health check administrative assisting and health check billing and coding for five years.
It sounds like it is a health check front personnel training program. The pay is so-so. The outlook is pretty excellent but they do usually want experience.
If you want to go train to work in a front personnel, health check transcription and health check billing and coding pay the most.
Job outlook for transcription is iffy so do your research first. It used to be a fantastic career. Then during the 1990s it declined in part because doctors got voice recognition software and just dictated right onto the notebook or they switched to electronic health check records so they enter their notes directly into the notebook and so they no longer needed a transcriptionist. The other thing that happened is doctors started outsourcing the work out of the country, mainly India because it is less expensive and with the time difference the work can be done over night and be completed when the doctor comes back in the morning. But, in recent years doctors some have been going back to hiring local transcriptionists so it may possibly be a viable option. But, before you train make sure you do a lot of research into how many jobs are available in your area.
Now health check billing and coding. This also pays more than simple front personnel work. And yes usually offices want experience. But, ironically I have had some of my billing and coding students get jobs in a health check personnel right out of teach because they know the billing and coding stuff.
For right now the very best pay is in hospital coding, mainly if you are a certified coder. This is increasing as the baby boomers continue to age. I don’t know whether or not Obamacare will change things.
So training programs. The least expensive options would be your junior college, adult schools and ROP programs. If you don’t do well with these you the most expensive option would be the private schools, which cost more but sometimes helps students who don’t do well in the traditional college setting.
Before you commence any program, try out with local employers to find out which teach they prefer. Some offices won’t hire graduates of certain programs. Also, it is best to go to a program that offers an externship.
Hope this helps. Excellent luck.
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