Starting a Medical Billing Business > Starting Your Own Medical Billing Business
starting a medical billing business
Pay_My_Claims:
gderlius, do you mean no experience as in you have never worked as a biller, but have been trained, or you have never worked or trained as a biller..............just curious
gderilus:
I have never worked as a medical biller before but I'm currently working on my Associate degree and I'll graduate in 4 months
I'm thinking about starting my own business, but I have a communication problem. I'm not a sale person and I don't really know how I would present my business to a doctor and persuade them on signing the contract with me. I was wondering if there are people out there who can act as a sale person on behalf me. If there are, how does it work, do we pay them a percentage on every contract they signed.
Any help please.
Pay_My_Claims:
Honestly, I am not for anyone trying to have a medical billing business that has never worked, or at least trained in this field. So many people think its just some data entry field and its not. For every person getting in this field, not knowing the business it makes it literally harder for the ones with the experience because providers don't trust outsourcing as much. If you are financially able to, maybe you should become the partner. Get an experienced biller who knows the field, and go into it with them,
Michele:
There are people out there who will market for you and they all charge in their own way. Some will charge you an hourly fee, some will charge per appt, etc. More recently it is becoming popular to charge a % of the contract signed. But it can be done. There are some people on this forum that do it, so maybe you can hook up with someone.
Good luck
Michele
Michele:
I didn't read Pay_My_Claims response before I posted, sorry!
I understand Pay_My_Claims concerns, they are very valid. Unfortunately there are a lot of 'experienced' billers out there too, that also give billing services a bad name. When we started, my mother (and partner) had no experience in medical or billing at all, but I had worked at an insurance company for several years. Looking back though, I didn't have 'billing experience'. It can be done but as Pay_My_Claims stated this is NOT just a data entry job. You really need to know what you are doing and be the type of person that is going to do it right.
In my opinion it is more important that you take your job very seriously and treat it as if you are collecting your own money, not the doctors. That you do whatever you need to to learn what you need to know. Sometimes experienced billers are closed to learning anything new because they already know everything and that can be a huge handicap.
But there is no better training than actual experience!
Michele
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