Career In Medical Billing
Which career field pays more? Medical Billing And coding or Medical office assistant?
I live in florida, and I want to get an online degree from penn foster, but i want to know which of the two gets paid better and also which is more likely to be in demand… i don’t want to study something that isn’t in demand and is impossible to find a job.
I am an instructor in CA. I teach medical front office assisting and medical billing and coding.
Usually medical billing and coding pays better and has an even better demand than front office assisting. Starlight has an excellent point about researching whether or not employers will hire graduates of that school. Find out which schools they do like.
If you want to go for the money, as long as Obama-care doesn’t change things too much, the best thing to study is Hospital Coding. Look up job postings and find out what their requirements are. Hospital coding is likely to keep increasing as the baby boomers continue to age.
If you want to have your own business eventually, you can study either physician and/or Hospital Billing. Keep in mind though it can take a while to break into the industry because of course they all want experience. Ironically some of my medical billing and coding students initially get hired on as a front office assistant because they know the billing stuff already.
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