Medical Insurance Billing
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Potential Positions
Potential positions include medical insurance specialist and medical insurance biller. Opportunities exist in hospitals, extended care facilities, individual and group medical practices, clinics, mental health facilities, home health care agencies, and health insurance agencies.
Employment Outlook
Employment opportunities for formally trained health information technicians, the closest occupation for which data is available, should be very good. Employment of health information technicians is expected to grow 47% through the year 2012, due to rapid growth in the number of medical tests, treatments, and procedures which will be increasingly scrutinized by third-party payers, regulators, courts, and consumers. Within 9 months after graduation, the estimated employment rate for the Medical Insurance Billing program is 76%. The graduate starting median wage is $11.95 with a wage potential of $17.22.
*Graduate wages and placement obtained from SBCTC/WA unemployment files from 2004-05. Wage potential is based out of Whatcom County and obtained from LMEA. For further information, contact the Counseling & Career Center at 360-752-8450.
Typical Tasks
Specific tasks typically required of a medical insurance biller include:
Compile and maintain patients' medical records to document condition and treatment and to provide data for research or cost control and care improvement efforts.
Compile medical care and census data for statistical reports on diseases treated, surgery performed, or use of hospital beds.
Contact discharged patients, their families, and physicians to maintain registry with follow-up information, such as quality of life and length of survival of cancer patients.
Enter data, such as demographic characteristics, history and extent of disease, diagnostic procedures and treatment into computer.
Manage the department and supervise clerical workers, directing and controlling activities of personnel in the medical records department.
Plan, develop, maintain and operate a variety of health record indexes and storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store and analyze information.
Post medical insurance billings.
Process and prepare business and government forms.
Process patient admission and discharge documents.
Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.
Release information to persons and agencies according to regulations.
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This program typically starts in Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer Quarters
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