Going Solo—On Your Own

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Starting a Home Based Service

Successful people believe in their success! However, before getting started proper research, planning, and preparation is essential. Married individuals are more likely to work from home than those who are single. Most start out as freelancers, or independent contractors offering their services using just one computer from a simple corner desk in their living room. To complete the task they run medical coding and billing software and simple time and customer tracking programs. Here is some objective and practical advice...

Your Own Medical Billing or Transcription Business

Starting a medical insurance billing, or medical transcription business and being successful requires careful planning and research. Medical claims billing involves filling out and submitting medical insurance claim forms and billing patients for any outstanding balances. Medical transcription involves listening to dictated audio tapes that a doctor or other licensed health care provider has recorded about an encounter with a patient. The medical transcriptionist listens to these recordings via a headset and types out the report which is then printed and added to the patient's medical record.

Before Getting Started

Before you get started you must understand that medical coding and medical billing, although interrelated, is not one and the same. While medical billing can be done from the home as your own home based business or if you work as an employee of a practice, as a service to our employer. The same can be said about medical transcription.

Medical Coding From Your Livingroom?

Possible, but rarely done... Medical coding is a highly specialized profession and rarely done from a home corner desk in your home, mainly because of very strict confidentiality laws and privacy issues! Patient records leaving the medical office and who else might see them, there in lies the biggest concern.

Going Solo—On Your Own...

Approximately 15 million Americans work partly or exclusively from home. This is possible because they have access to their own computers, computer programs and telecommunication systems instead of depending on space and special equipment provided by the employer on the job. However, not everybody who works from home is necessarily self-employed.

Pros...

freedom

flexible hours

independence

control

higher income potential

privileges

individualism

tax write-offs

Cons...

initial cost

overhead

maintenance cost

no paid leave time

technical difficulties

security issues

separation and isolation

balance family and work time

Typical Reasons...

The reasons for working from home vary. Some employees take home additional work from the job because they are behind and need to catch up, or their boss actually expects them to do extra work at home. Others may have made special arrangements with their boss to work from home because it benefits them, or their family members. Typically, these are workers who have younger children, or a disabled family member under their care at home.

Read: AHIMA Tips for Coding from Home

Personal Reasons

Others may have reached a point in their live where they simply want to break free from the daily 9-5 office grind and try something new—on their own. Those people usually are individuals with entrepreneurial spirit and experience.

A home or small office business is great for them

because their strong desire to...

break away from the daily rut

be near their family

save child care cost

save money on work attire

save time on the daily commute

work on their own time and schedule

get their "groove" on and show what they are able to do

be independent, make their own decisions

avoid work place issues and conflicts

earn money and keep their own profits