Independent Medical Coding

by Donna Avila-Weil

The comprehensive guidebook for career success as a medical coder. How to start and successfully run your own professional independent medical coding business. Types of services to offer. Marketing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1877810177
• ISBN13: 9781877810176
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Rayve Productions
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An absolute "must-have" for anyone considering the benefits of a medical coding career.

Co-authors Donna Avila-Weil, RHIT and Rhonda Regan, CCS, CCS-P combine their expertise in the updated second edition of Independent Medical Coding: The Comprehensive Guidebook for Career Success as a Medical Coder. Independent Medical Coding is an in-depth guide to pursuing medical coding as a career - an excellent opportunity, given that demand for skilled medical coders currently outstrips supply. Chapters cover how to gain the necessary education, as well as cultivating the needed interpersonal and organizational skills; how to become credentialed; specifics on different types of coding systems; how to establish an independent coding business; alternative careers for a coding specialist; and much more. An absolute "must-have" for anyone considering the benefits of a medical coding career.

Independent Medical Coding

This book is really a great resource. I have devoured it. There is so much useful information in it and it is the first book I have found on this subject that goes into all it would take to make this a great career move. I was looking for a great home business and I think this book will be a great help. I wish I had found it sooner. Good job for the authors.

An excellent resource for coding professionals

I was very pleased to find this book on Independent Medical Coding. I had been considering just such a career, but didn't know where to begin. This book was exactly what I needed. It gives the experienced coder an alternative career path into entrepeneurship without doing "billing". This book provided me the first stepping stone in what is soon to be my new career. I would like to see the authors do an even more in-depth book, providing even more information about this field. Because books of this nature are so rare, a comprehensive reference would be wonderful, and I would gladly pay extra for the information. The book as written, however, is an excellent resource and I definitely recommend it to anyone already skilled in coding who is interested in working for themselves. Thank you for writing this book!

For any Coder thinking of pursuing an independent career.

This is a fantastic reference for anyone who is pursuing a career as an independent coder. In this age of "compliance" conscious organizations, anyone working independently needs to now how to organize business practices. This is not a "how to code" book. There are numerous very good coding references. This book addresses coding as a business. Working independently as a consultant, coding education resources and certification. It is an excellent resource and highly recommended to all who are considering pursuing an independent coding practice.

An excellent resource for expanding homebased Med. Business.

As an at-home Medical biller, this book has helped me to see a way to expand my present income potential. It has great information on were to find more resources and educational opportunities. It gave me lots of marketing ideas. I hope to see future editions with more helpful tools. Having a credentialed and experience coder as an author in Ms. Regan gave me insight into how to contract and expand my business into the coding feild.