Most of the medical billing and coding work is related to administrative work like scheduling, maintaining the medical records and coding the records for the insurance purpose. The clinical duties of these persons involve recording the important signs, preparing the medical examinations of the patients and drawing the blood for sampling under the guidance of a physician.
The medical billing salary decided on the basis of the size of the health organizations. The larger the organization will pay more compared to small organizations. The medical professionals also have the opportunity to gain through some promotion of their organization. This can be done by giving some managerial roles to the professionals. In some of the smaller size organization, they can promote to the office and administration work. Most of the medical coding and billing jobs are full time. In some of the cases, we have seen organization hires the professionals on the contract basis or for night shifts.
It is essential for all the professionals to well equip with bachelor degree or master degree. There are also chances that these professionals can also be promoted to the insurance companies, especially for the person who is having the 4 years of graduation degree in medicine. Apart from the salary, these organizations are giving some perks and benefits to the medical coders and billers. These are generally in the form of health care, pension, education benefit and insurance coverage. The scope of salary negation is normally lower in the medical billing and coding. The salary negotiation in large organizations such as government and public sector will have fixed salary structure, where no one has any bargaining power. However, in the small organization, the scope is a little bit higher due to skill, qualification and experience will allow the individual to bargain with the organization.
