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marie8480:
what will be the idea clientele for newbies?

Pay_My_Claims:
can't answer that....too vague.
Newbie can be someone who just graduated from school, or someone who has decided to leave their job and start their own medical service, or someone with no educational background or experience in billing.

Billing(having your own company) is not meant for anyone who has NEVER billed before. Others will say if you have a background in finance you can do this or that, but it demeans our industry. If billing was so easy, everyone would do it. Anyone can OWN the service, but they need qualified people to run it. I can't bill for every service and I have been in the industry for 15 years. I can easily adapt to different services, however the complexity of some keep me from marketing to those providers until I get trained. What kills the industry is the "fake it til you make it" billing companies.

QueenAlicia:

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do you mean what to specialize in?

PMRNC:

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Hi Marie, I'm going to assume you are up and ready to market :)  If so I like mental health providers for a few good reasons.  1) many of them are small and even work by themselves so they are easily accessible. 2.) their offices are very rarely busy, as they do not keep more than one maybe 2 patient's in the waiting room, so they are even easily accessible on walk-in's sometimes. 3) because of their profession they are usually very easy going and much less intimidating than other specialties. 4) They usually only deal with a handful of codes.  Some of your small individual therapists or psychologists even work from within offices apart from their home too.

I have also heard chiropractors are pretty easy market and dentists too. A lot of people skip over dental providers but they can be very lucrative.

I'm sure there are others but these are the ones that stick out in my mind for now.

Pay_My_Claims:
Mental health is BROAD!! Most mean psychiatry when they state mental health. If you go in that direction I can agree, but there are so many facets to mental health. My first MH provider I obtained (with 15 years experience) and the coaxing into MH wasn't what I thought it was. She does not bill the usual 90801 90804 etc codes you find in the guides and books you can purchase online. They bill using HCPCS codes. I am also billing Mental health in the area of Substance Abuse and it is facility billing. Both areas of MH that I have billed deal a lot with authorization management, different payors using different codes, and units billed differently.

Dental providers are very particular as well. They REQUIRE so many years of dental billing. It is not difficult billing, however different billing. They are not so welcoming to medical billers who want to cross over. This has been my experience when seeking employment (outside of me starting my business). The software system they use is also different. This also applies to DME providers.

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