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The Best Time to Get Started in Medical Coding is Now!
Why? Because the health care indusry is growing, and with President Obabma’s plan for health care reform, will grow even more! Currently, the hospitals in the United States employ 5.1 million people. Furthermore, 2.8 million health services jobs are expected to open by 2010, and these positions need to be filled. And with the Patriot Employer Act of 2007, companies are encouraged to hire even more full-time employees, pay them better wages, provide health insurance, and create opportunities that benefit businesses and workers.
However, what’s crazy is that a recent survey by the American Hospital Association concluded that about 18% of medical billing and coding positions remain unfilled due to a lack of qualified candidates. What does this mean to you? it means, get on the ball, sign up for a medical coding training program near you, and then, join the evergrowing workforce needed to run the expanding health care machine.
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thats right the best time is to start the coding now as the new code set ICD 10 is implementing in the USA. The ICD 10 has more than 150,000 codes and ICD 9 has 15,000 codes. One need to learn all the coding once again. The requirement for the man power also increases further.
Comment by dr steven — September 1, 2009 at 5:50 am