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Experience:
DMK:
The only stupid question is an unasked one.
Amen amen!!!!!
medauthor:
--- Quote ---KNOWLEDGE can actually TRUMP experience if you have enough of it
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When it comes to medical billing....I disagree
For the life of me, I cannot see the aversion to getting experience....why is the advice to 'get experience' prior to starting your home-based medical billing frowned upon? Tha advice is not to discourage---the advice is to HELP....when someone suggests to 'get experience'.....it is to help assist you when it is time to market.....I just don't get it.............newbies come in to the forum for advice...."What advice can you give me to start out?" "How did you start?" etc etc...............of course, people can choose to do what they want....they can choose to start-up with NO experience....but why NOT get experience?? Why NOT work in a provider's office first to get the hands-on feeling for it-----see even, if you like it or not?? What happens if you have no experience at all---you land your first client and you HATE medical billing?? Then what??
You will be sooo much better off in sooo many ways if you get the experience first!!!
rdmoore2003:
I was very shocked to see what has been going on. I feel that this forum is very much needed, no matter if your a "newbie" or if you have been billing for "100 years". With that said, people need to realize that once you have made your opinion known, then leave it be. It does take 2 to tango. I feel that all the back and forth is very catty and I just wonder how physicians would feel if they knew how their contracted professionals where acting. I have enjoyed knowing that I have somewhere to go when needed on this forum. I hope that instances like this does not backfire on the rest of us. I thank you Michele and Alice for starting this forum. I have never been made to feel "less than" even as a newbie.
QueenAlicia:
--- Quote from: medauthor on February 18, 2011, 12:35:30 PM ---
--- Quote ---KNOWLEDGE can actually TRUMP experience if you have enough of it
--- End quote ---
When it comes to medical billing....I disagree
For the life of me, I cannot see the aversion to getting experience....why is the advice to 'get experience' prior to starting your home-based medical billing frowned upon? Tha advice is not to discourage---the advice is to HELP....when someone suggests to 'get experience'.....it is to help assist you when it is time to market.....I just don't get it.............newbies come in to the forum for advice...."What advice can you give me to start out?" "How did you start?" etc etc...............of course, people can choose to do what they want....they can choose to start-up with NO experience....but why NOT get experience?? Why NOT work in a provider's office first to get the hands-on feeling for it-----see even, if you like it or not?? What happens if you have no experience at all---you land your first client and you HATE medical billing?? Then what??
You will be sooo much better off in sooo many ways if you get the experience first!!!
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I agree, experience can help out a lot. I am considering looking for a billing clerk position or anything that can help get my feet wet. It reminds me of how now with education and the economy even having a bachelors isn't enough at times to get a "good" job.
PMRNC:
--- Quote ---When it comes to medical billing....I disagree
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So what are you saying, those of us who never did billing can't do it because we didn't have "experience" I think there are many of us who have and will prove that false.
--- Quote ---For the life of me, I cannot see the aversion to getting experience....why is the advice to 'get experience' prior to starting your home-based medical billing frowned upon? Tha advice is not to discourage---the advice is to HELP....when someone suggests to 'get experience'.....it is to help assist you when it is time to market.....I just don't get it.............newbies come in to the forum for advice...."What advice can you give me to start out?" "How did you start?" etc etc...............of course, people can choose to do what they want....they can choose to start-up with NO experience....but why NOT get experience?? Why NOT work in a provider's office first to get the hands-on feeling for it-----see even, if you like it or not?? What happens if you have no experience at all---you land your first client and you HATE medical billing?? Then what??
You will be sooo much better off in sooo many ways if you get the experience first!!!
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In case you have not noticed, the country is in a bad recession. Getting a "job" (especially one in a new field) is a bit hard. And didn't we just say of course experience is great, but how do you get experience to get those so called jobs without actually working? It's a catch 22. I know many billing companies who set out to get jobs and had either no luck or just decided to go for it in their business, many of them doing quite well.
This is what I said exactly, pay attention to the word in bold:
"KNOWLEDGE can actually TRUMP experience if you have enough of it"
There are far too many of us to prove this is correct. And besides who are any of us to say no one CAN NOT do this w/out experience? As I pointed out in a previous post, you did not come out of the birth canal with experience.
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