You will see these advertisements in newspapers, magazines and, of
course, on the Internet. You will be told that the entire reason that medical costs are so
high is because the medical profession needs your personal assistance and that
just by taking a job, for which you will be very well paid, you can
single-handedly lower the cost of health care for the whole world. Wow! You need a job...and they need you! Sounds like a partnership that
would work out well for everybody. These advertisements try to sell you on the idea that it’s the
overwhelming amount of required paperwork that is the root cause of the
inflation of health care costs....for all of us. These advertisements claim that all that is needed to fix this
problem in the implementation of electronic claim processing....which is a new
and innovative technology that has recently become available. Horse feathers! Electronic billing is done by a few well
established companies. Doctors subscribe to these services and have been doing
so for more than a few years. Medical billing isn’t done by hand and hasn’t
been since the late 1980’s. If you answer one of the advertisements, what you will get in
return for the hard-earned dollars that you send in is a brochure, an
application, some discs, a contract, some disclosure statements (in tiny
print), and possibly some testimonial letters from people who will swear that
this has changed their lives and made the wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.
HA! What you will have are some basic instructions for setting up your
own medical billing business. What you will not have is a medical building job.
You will be required to get your own clients. They will not be supplied. As I
said before, there are a few (and only a few) well established companies that
have been doing this billing for doctors for many years. They are your
competition...and very stiff competition. You will be promised that you can earn a ton of bucks by only
working part time and at your own pace. Now stop just a minute and think about
that. Part time AND a ton of money? Does that really sound reasonable to you?
It isn’t a reasonable expectation. You aren’t likely to make a ton of money
working at a full time job of any kind and you certainly won’t be making very
much, if anything, by working part time. Real world business doesn’t work like
that and neither does Internet based businesses. Oh, and you will also be required to make a personal investment of
between one and TEN thousand dollars in order to get in on the golden
opportunity. Fact:
Medical billing is well covered by the few companies who have been doing it for
decades. You aren’t the answer to the soaring cost of health care. Date
Entry: No doubt you can picture yourself just putting numbers in
columns for a few hours a day from the comfort of your own home and making
enough money by doing it to make up your financial short fall, right?
No...sorry....that isn’t really very likely to happen. I’m not telling you that there are NO data entry jobs available. I
am only telling you that you aren’t likely to get one of them by answering one
of those slick ads that promise you a data entry job if you will but sign up
for their course. The problem with these so-called data entry courses, is that they
rarely have anything to do with data entry jobs. Most of them are more on the
order of teaching you (more or less) how to set up and run your own affiliate
program.
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