If you're looking for a great work-from-home opportunity that is completely legitimate and has plenty of room for growth, then medical billing may be the industry for you. If you're considering a career in this exciting field, you may be wondering how to go about launching your own home-based medical billing business. What's the secret to success a...

As health records and medical billing practices become increasingly digitized, there are many advantages that accompany the switch - and also many undeniable drawbacks. One of the biggest dangers that has recently started gaining visibility is the unfortunate phenomenon of medical identity theft. Medical identity theft can take several different...

Why does medical billing have such a well-founded reputation as a growth industry with plenty of opportunities for employment for enterprising individuals? It's simple: As the healthcare sector grows and expands, so does the practice of medical billing! As the baby boomer generation, which accounts for over 78 million Americans, approaches retireme...

To add to the many recent reports of billing fraud (and the federal government's renewed commitment to stamping it out), two more cases of medical billing-related corruption surfaced in the news this week. In one case, a New Port Richey, Florida woman is accused of embezzling more than $150,000 from a single pediatric office over the past three yea...

By now, you're probably well-acquainted with President Obama's plan to revolutionize America's healthcare system by requiring the digitization of all medical records by the year 2014. But what does all this actually mean for the billing and coding professionals who will be most affected by the changes? To begin, the nation's outdated coding syst...