Medical Billing & Coding School

I have people ask me all the time about Medical Billing & Coding Schools. What is a good one? Do I recommend taking the courses? Will it help me to get a better job in the field?

There is no easy answer to that question. There are some courses and schools out there that legitimately teach you what you need to know about Medical Billing and Coding, but there are also a lot of bad ones.

We had an student from a Syracuse school call us a year ago and ask if we would take her as an intern. She was just finishing up her course on billing and coding and needed to do an internship with a local business. Her course was taught on the same medical billing software that we use so we thought it would be a big help to us also. We agreed to the internship.

Well, to make a long story short, we called her in near the end of the internship and asked her how much she had paid for the course. She knew nothing about medical billing or coding and she wasn’t even that good on the software.

My stepdaughter’s mom just completed a year long Medical Billing & Coding course in southeastern PA. She and about half of her class are now suing the school for their money back. The school did not teach them all that they claim to teach, and they did not provide them with their certificates and they didn’t assist them with any job searches, all of which was promised before the class began.

While it is not required that you take a course in order to get a job in the medical billing & coding field it certainly can be helpful especially if you don’t have a lot of background. However, there is no substitute for on the job experience.

What I would recommend if you are convinced you want to take a Medical Billing & Coding Course is that you do a little background checking on the school and the instructor. See if you can speak to a few people who have already completed the course. Get in writing exactly what the course will cover and what the school states they will do for you.

The last thing you want to do is spend 12 months in school to be in the same place you were before you started!

Good luck!

Michele

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