How to Get Started With Work at Home Medical Billing & Coding Jobs

Medical billing and coding  is  often a popular work from home type of job, but like many other telecommute opportunities, getting started is a challenge. Many companies advertise medical billing jobs that can be done from home, but more often than not, these companies ask you to purchase something. So how can you find real  medical billing from home jobs? 

Here's a few tips to get you started.

Start with the Right Skills
Medical billing, coding and transcription positions require a college degree or certification, so start there if you haven't already. While building the right skills, make sure you are networking since building relationships with instructors and classmates can prove invaluable in the future. Check with the school you studied with—many offer assistance with job placement.  University of Phoenix and Kaplan have medical billing and coding courses that you can do online or in person.  

Meet Erica a WAHM who has made a career with  medical transcription 

Do not pay for the job!

If an employer asks for money, this should always be a red flag. Employers shouldn't be asking for money --they should be paying you. There may be financial investment in getting the right software, but pick up what you need from a company that doesn't offer a “too good to be true” job along with it.  

Work in hospital or doctor's office first 

Many employers require their staff to start in-house but offer telecommuting flexibility further down the road after  the relationship is established. Check your local classifieds and job listings for opportunities in the area that could lead to telecommuting opportunities.

Contact Medical offices directly 

Create a list of medical offices near you and give them a call, or better yet drop your resume off in person. Ask if they're hiring, and even if they aren't they may be impressed with your initiative enough to keep your information on file.

10 ways to make an extra money this year

Working in medical billing can be a rewarding career that allows you to work from home. Never pay anyone for a job—it's likely not a legitimate opportunity. Instead, ask connections from your schooling or certification studies, consider starting at an in-house position, contact local 

Here are some companies that regularly hiring medical coding and billing.   They may or may not be hiring right now!

Aviacode – Coding, and billing. Must have at least three years’ experience.

Codebusters – Coding, and billing. Experience required.

Conifer Health Solutions – Coding, and billing. Requires experience.

Himagine – Coding. Experience required.

LexiCode – Coding, and billing. Experience required.

Maxim Healthcare – Coding, and billing. Requires at least two years’ experience.

MModal – Coding. Some experience is required.

nThrive – Coding, and billing. Requires at least three years’ experience.

Piedmont Healthcare – Coding. Must have at least two years’ experience.

The Coding Network – Coding. Requires at least three years’ experience.

Medical Transcription and Editing Career Opportunity

See what the career of an at-home medical transcriptionist is really like. Meet Erika, a work at home mom with 6 kids  as she talks about her day-to-day activities and how a career in medical transcription has changed her life and her family's for the better. 

A career in medical transcription offers a number of benefits, including:

The opportunity to work at home – A real career from your home with no commute, no daycare costs, and the flexibility to work anywhere there's a secure internet connection.
Flexible work schedules – Many medical transcriptionists choose their schedules, so you'll have the freedom to work when it fits your life.
Productivity-based income – The more you work, the more you can make as a medical transcriptionist because most are paid on production.
A career in medical transcription offers the opportunity to earn a great income

How to Get Started With Work at Home Medical Billing & Coding  Jobs

Medical Transcription Editing Certification Program

https://www.careerstep.com/programs/health-data/medical-transcription-editing

5 Reasons To Complete Your Medical Transcription Editor Training With CareerStep

Qualify In Four Months.

Medical transcriptionist certification requirements shouldn't cost years. Four months (about 630 hours of study) sounds more reasonable. Earn your medical transcription certification online with CareerStep and you'll get 12 months of program access before you sit for the the RHDS (Registered Healthcare Documentation Specialist) certification test.

Get Hired.

Because you’ve met your medical transcriptionist requirements, employers trust—even prefer—CareerStep-trained and certified medical transcriptionist, and demand for this role is steady.

Work From Home.

Most medical transcriptionists and medical transcription editors work from home, making it the perfect job for parents (and anyone else who needs a flexible schedule).

Take Charge Of Your Paycheck.

Most medical transcription professionals also get paid according to the amount of work they produce, giving you control of your schedule and your paychecks.

Stay In The Black.

Our online medical transcription program is effective and affordable. We make it easy to pay the course fee (because your success is kind of a big deal to us).

Key Skills to Spotlight in Your WAHM Resume

Writing a resume that includes experience gained from working at home is not much different from writing a regular resume. But there are some areas in which your WAHM skills beat the in-office competition. Here’s what you should be highlighting.

Organizational Skills

It’s easier to stay organized when the boss can drop in on your office at any moment. Not so much when the only one seeing your messy home office is your cat. Keeping your office organized is crucial to work at home success. It’s also a sign of respect—not only to your job, but to yourself.

Dedication and Professionalism

Sure, it was fun gabbing with the gals at the office but that doesn’t even compare to a Real Housewives marathon on Bravo! It takes sheer discipline—and professionalism—to keep yourself sitting at your desk and working when the TV calls your name, especially when your boss is not around to reprimand you.

Superior Communication Skills

When you worked in an office, you could always stroll down the hallway if you needed some clarification from a colleague. Now, you stroll down the hallway and you’re in your kitchen. Working at home requires excellent communication skills, especially when an email or an IM is unclear. Being vocal about your queries also lets your boss know that you’re serious about your job.

Focus

From your mother calling to your dogs looking longingly at you for a walk, there are incessant interruptions when you work at home. These calls for your attention are something that you simply don’t have to deal with when you work in an office. Being able to avoid distractions (yes, even Facebook counts as one) and concentrate on your work is a definite advantage.

Time Management Skills

When you can start—and end—your work day as you please, it’s easy to let the hours slip by. Being able to keep track of time—and stay on top of your work—without a boss breathing down your neck is a skill coveted by all employers.

When you are revamping your resume, you should definitely utilize your work at home strengths to your advantage. After all, these skills will be beneficial for any job that you apply for in the future.

Jennifer Parris is the Career Writer for FlexJobs, an award-winning service that helps job-seekers find professional opportunities that offer work flexibility, such as telecommuting, freelance, part-time or alternative schedules. To learn more about Jennifer, visit FlexJobs.com or tweet @flexjobs.

How to Make Smart & Good Money with Fiverr

Learn how to make smart movie with Fiverr Fiverr is a marketplace that allows anyone to buy or sell services, or "gigs" as they call them, for $5. Launched in 2010, Fiverr has been a smash hit and is one of the most popular classified boards in the world.

Here are some of the gigs that you work on Fiverr
 Video
 Graphic Design
Copy writing
 Online Tutors
 Social Media marketing tasks
 Blog posts Translation
 Music
 Wordpress Script installation

Here is what works for one fiverr doing writing which is a very common freelance gig. 

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I created a gig to write 400 words of a buyer/s choice of topic for $5. Fiverr takes $1 for every $5 someone spends. So, I made very very little for each article to start. That was my choice to do that to bring in more buyers. You can set your gig for whatever you like. You do not have to be a writer, you can create any job you like for the $5. I personally enjoy writing, so that is what I chose. Content writing is very valuable, so it is a hot commodity on Fiverr. Not all jobs on Fiverr will bring in a lot of orders. I have had a lot of success on the site because I have been willing to write a lot of well researched material for a very low price. Since I stuck it out there for so long, I was able to raise my prices, and people still hired me at the higher price. I am not currently on Fiverr right now, and that is because I’m working so much for Lifetricks. com and I blog for 5 people every week. I also have a few other clients that I write website content for every so often. 

How to get Started with Upwork

A few things I wish I had known before I created my first gig on Fiverr.

-I wish I had set my gig for a longer period of time. I started it at 3 days, but eventually set my turn around time on a project for 7 days.
-If I had known how valuable content writing is, I would have started the gig at 350 words for $5, since that would encourage a buyer to purchase the gig twice for a more lengthy article.
-If I had known there would have been no shortage of orders, I wouldn’t have accepted every single article request asked of me. It took me three months to feel comfortable telling a buyer that I couldn’t do the article they were asking, for different reasons. It is ok to tell a buyer you don’t want to take on a project. There will be other buyers.
-It is time consuming and you should expect to put in a lot more time then what you are being paid for at least for the first month or two. You’ll develop regular people who come to you all the time. After a month, you can add on a tip to your gig. If you are good at what you do, people will give you the tip. I received many tips. 🙂

It is a learning process, and your experience may not be like mine. Not everyone has success on Fiverr but a lot of people do. I had the ability to hone in on my writing skills with little expectations. People do not expect to get good quality articles at $5, so I was given a lot of grace for writing that may not have been that well put together. Fiverr made a gateway for me to find opportunities to work for other websites, and also to realize that I can in fact blog on a regular basis.

If I had any real wisdom to share it would be, stay patient and flexible. With internet businesses, you do not know which ones will be successful and which ones will fold. There is no guarantee in any of this. So, build up a good clientele with whatever your freelance work should happen to be, so that if one of their sites doesn’t work out, the you still have other projects to fall back on.


I hope this helps anyone who is feeling hesitant about creating a gig on Fiverr. At the end of the day, what is the worse thing that can happen? You open a gig, it doesn’t bring in any money, and you do something instead. 🙂


Sign up for Fiverr here 

How to Make a Living as a Freelance Writer

As the traditional publishing industry has shrunk over the past decade, some writers are actually finding it easier to earn a full-time living.



For Jeff Goins, it all started with building his own following. Once his audience grew, traditional publishers came knocking.

But getting published wasn’t the key to earning a living. Jeff was already on his way to earning a full-time income by that point, through self-publishing and selling his own online programs. Getting published was an itch he still wanted to scratch, but for different reasons.

In this interview, Jeff shares the insider details every aspiring writer should know about what it really takes to earn a living in today’s environment. In many ways there are more opportunities for writers than ever before.

How to get Started with Upwork

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in the interview:

When you should “officially” consider yourself a writer 
How Jeff made a habit of writing every day for over a year 
When Jeff went from wanting to be heard to wanting to earn a living 
How much money Jeff earned from his book advance 
How to learn what your audience will pay for 
Why what’s obvious to you might be amazing to someone else 
Why “getting published” isn’t the golden ticket most writers hope for 
How much revenue an ebook can generate compared to a book deal 
How Jeff transitioned from simple ebook to full-fledged online course 
Where advertising and affiliate income fits in the overall picture 
How many revenue streams writers typically have 
Other options for income (speaking, coaching, ghost writing) 

8 Warnings Signs for Work at Home Job Scams

CBS moneywatch did a recent article of 8 things to watch for work at home job scams.   Here are their tips

Few details: Real job postings include lots of detail about the actual job, the skills required and the title. If a job is short on requirements -- from hours and duties to the kind of skill required -- but talks repeatedly about the flexible nature of the work, consider it a red flag.  

High pay/low effort: Listen to your gut, says Durst. Is somebody really going to be offering you easy work and a flexible schedule for high pay? Promising that their "guaranteed system" will make you a mint, if you act now? Get real. Unless your skill set is in such high demand that you'd get as much or more from a brick-and-mortar position, a work-at-home opportunity isn't either.   If is sounds too goo to be true it probably is 

Burned applicants: Before applying for an online opportunity, type in the name of the company and "scam," suggests Fell. If it's one of the many bogus jobs, you'll quickly find web-based complaints. Durst also likes work-at-home forums, such as those at wahm.com and workplacelikehome.com. She suggests that anyone serious about finding good opportunities, register at these sites and just lurk in the forums to find out what other people are complaining about. "Hell hath no fury like a mom scammed," she says. "If somebody's been burned, they're going to tell you about it in no uncertain terms."   Agreed work of  mouth on these "jobs" is fast. I  will often type if company  name and scam into google and tons of stuff will come up 

Upfront cash: Real jobs pay you. You don't pay the employer. Unless you're buying a franchise (and that's another story altogether), you should not have to pay to get paid. Don't be fooled by slick claims, testimonials or "guaranteed programs" designed to make you rich. If they're asking for money in advance to get a job, they're likely to be crooks.   Dont spend your own money here there are some legit companies like LiveOps and Arise  that do a background check that do a small charge-do your home work here 

Too much information: Though most work-at-home scams seek cash payments from victims, a few appear to be going after the personal information that could make you a target of identity theft. You don't need to put your Social Security number or driver's license number on a job application. If the application asks for those identifying numbers or for a credit card number, back away.    Hold off on giving your social security number until you are fillling out a W-9 form

Anonymous emails: If you're dealing with a human resources manager at a particular company, their email address should be coming from the company's domain name, not an anonymous domain like Gmail, Yahoo or AT&T.   A real company is going to use a real email addy 

Unprofessional communication: Job postings and email communications with multiple exclamation marks, misspellings and grammatical errors are also likely to be scams.

Over payments: One of the pervasive mystery shopper scams provides big up-front checks to mystery shoppers, who are instructed to deposit the money in their own bank accounts; use what they need to buy an inexpensive product and pay themselves a fee. The mystery shopper is then told to wire the remaining funds back to the "employer." In reality, the check the scammer gave you is a forgery. But it may be a good enough fake to keep your bank guessing past the point when banking rules require that they "provisionally" provide the funds. What does that mean? It will look like the check cleared. But the bank will debit your account later if the check is a fake -- and that could happen weeks after you've spent the money. You're on the hook for the cost of the purchased products, whatever amount you refunded to the crook, as well as any overdraft fees that the fake check caused.

Freelance writing and blogging jobs October 3rd

Copy Editors Needed!

We have an immediate need for sharp copy editors who can help with a few large projects. Copy editing teams are fine, too. 
Requirements include: 
* You MUST be able to follow very specific directives. These projects are big and come with lots of directives, like how long to make meta descriptions, keywords and HTML coding. 
* English must be your first language. Grammar and punctuation is vitally important. 
* You must be able to copy edit on a tight deadline. 
This is adult content (but not pornographic).

Cloud Industry Writers Wanted

Are you an avid follower of the cloud industry’s latest trends and news? You are not afraid of the words cloud web hosting, online backup? Can you write 1,000 word post without tripping over common grammar mistakes and spelling errors?

If so, please get in touch with us at Cloudwards.net for a writing gig. 



Here are the qualifications you’ll need to join us:


1. A solid grasp of the English language, you will be tested over this more than once. 



2. Basic knowledge and understanding of the cloud industry. If you’ve never heard of Dropbox, and don’t how to use it, this might not be the gig for you. In order to be considered for this gig please add the words blue panda to your application. 



3. A healthy respect for deadlines. Seriously, no late party poopers allowed! 



4. A casual yet informative tone, that can engage readers without speaking down to them. 

Recipe and culinary blogger

We are looking for a blogger that can write 1,000 to 2,000 word articles 2x per week including photos on the following topics:
-Cooking & recipes
-Culinary practices
-Culinary fashion
-And restaurant business

Articles needs to be:
-Visual driven, including images to illustrate recipes and examples. (If you can provide photography, even better.)
-Have personality. Example: http://theelliotthomestead.com/2014/09/homemade-pesto-recipe/
-Backed with data and example for any claims. 

. Freelance Copywriter Needed for eCommerce Store
Project: Web copywriting services for an ecommerce store that specializes in bags and accessories. Description: To rewrite and optimize the copy with heavy emphasis on the benefits of our products. The current copy is very features-heavy and we want it to be geared towards product benefits ..

Freelance Blogger
Peace Bicycles is a new brand and we need a Bicycle Expert/Enthusiast Blogger for Peacebicycles.com. Your job would be to write useful entertaining information like how to's and advice as a useful source for our customers and to attract traffic back to our eccommerce site ...

 Freelance Fact-Checker
Candidates must have experience fact-checking feature stories at a monthly magazine. Please include at least one reference in your cover letter. Responsibilities include fact-checking feature stories and essays on a semi-regular basis. Some additional research/sidebar work may be necessary .

 Freelance Copywriter
Mindhard is looking for a freelance copywriter with experience writing explainer videos for the tech industry. This is an offsite position working on one client project. You may be required to come in for one or two meetings. Please send resume, writing samples/portfolio and freelance rate card .

 Freelance Content Web Writer
We are looking for a Freelance Content Web Writer to help write content for our Web Site www.ciberspring(com). We are moving to a company more focused on Digital Marketing and Marketing Automation. Any experience with writing content for a company like that is a huge plus ...

 Freelance Writers
Apartment Ratings, the largest online rating community for rental housing, is looking for experienced writing professionals to become regular blog contributors. We’re looking for individuals who write with a friendly and conversational tone that can provide information to our readers ...

 Freelance Writer (NJ)
We are an outdoor and hiking, guidebook publisher looking for an outdoor enthusiast. We are looking for a person who is passionate about hiking in New Jersey. This is a paid job for an experienced writer who is passionate about hiking in New Jersey ...