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Posted 1/20/2013 3:19 AM (GMT 0)
Okay you all knowI have been in a flare up for 4 months. Its not getting any better. Actully its getting worse. I have missed 3 weeks solid at work. I have doctors notes for all of them, including last week that my doctor wanted me to take off. (I got a new one) On one of my decent days (pain only a 4) I helped my boyfriends mom take her grandson to his pshyc appoinment. While we sat in the waiting room she was reading a parenting magazine, and she saw a page on schooling for medical billing. Says you can work from home and pick your hours. I know no matter what my pain is at, even if its a 10 I am usualy on the computer trying to get my mind off the pain. So Ifigured it might be a good idea to try. My other option is disability, which I really dont want to do. When I'm good, Im good....but when I'm bad oh its bad (in reference to pain). I have to find somethihgn that will be easier on me.

I also just went to a chiropracter 3 days ago and got a full set of xrays. Turn out I have lots of problems there....my neck is curved 15 degrees in the wrong direction, and I have 3 degenterating disks. My upper back is supposed to be at a 24% curve, mine is 46. Yeah back is kinda screwed up. The guy said he usuly only sees it that bad in a 70 year old. Oh and this is fun, I have been waiting forever to get my insurance. I finaly get it and it doesn't cover therepy of anykind or emergincy room visits...so what good is that! Grr. I keep banging my head into walls, everywhere I turn there is a dead end. Im really starting to get discuraged. Not sure how much longer I can go before my brain just snaps. Im not a quiter at all...I am very very stubbern,. But it is really just statring to look hopeless. When I was diagnosed at 13, I was vvery bad. In and out of a wheelchair, spasms, blackouts...dr swaid I was the 3rd worse case he had ever seen. That lasted for 6 years and mulitpul therapies. Chiropracters, massage, acupuncter, water therapy, horse therapy. You name it. For 7 years I have been very active but I have noticed winters started to get harder, and everything just rapidly went down hill...now I am back to where I started with no money and no insurance that worth a crap and I am unable to get to work . Its really starting to bother me. I am not able to do anything that give me joy.

Sorry guess I needed to vent. ANWAY I was wondering if anyone had any stay at home jobs..

Posted 1/20/2013 4:09 AM (GMT 0)
I haven't done it, but I know several that are doing it. It takes a good mind to learn all the stuff. Lots of studying. Tons of laws also. Then you need to pass a test to get accredited in medical billing. Some places will hire you without passing, but better money. I think in Alaska you are seeing less home medical billing, but their out there. My friend just finished school at career college, but she failed the test. She made streight a's, but failed the board exam. She can take it up to 3-4 times. As you know some people are not good test takers. She works in a very busy office. So she works 5 days a week. My other friend was doing some work from home. If you were looking to get into it, your probably might think about working for a hospital or a big dr's office that has good medical benefits. I know you were thinking about home work, but I am not sure you would get good benefits. Some of the smaller medical offices don't have good medical benefits like what your needing. I am sure their are others here that know more then me.
Posted 1/20/2013 5:13 AM (GMT 0)
My sister is an at home medical coder for a local hospital. She makes decent money and has insurance through the job.

There is an insurance for high risk pool people who can't get good insurance due to their health. It's called PICP. You have to be without insurance for 6 months though, but the price is good.
Posted 1/21/2013 5:09 AM (GMT 0)
I have a decent mind. My current job I was top of my class with tests and everything. Im just having such a hard time right now. I can't get into a pain specialist till march, no one will write me a script for the percesets that I know help. and my insurance doesn't cover chiropractic or therapy. Which just sucks! Im having a really hardf time dealing with this like I said just 2 years ago i was running a 10 acre farm by myself and now I can barley get up to go to the freaking bathroom! Let alone have any energy to shower or get dressed. I'm hitting 9's on the pain scale almost every other day, on good days its a 7, and I have hit a 10 3 times in the last 3 weeks. Needless to say the hospital is tierd of me. My blood pressure is out of wack because of the pain too. Once it was 185/115 heart rate 125...Its really starting to scare me. But when they gave me whatever shot you can get there it goes back to normal. I am just really at my whits end with this. Its so frusterating expecialy beccause Im 27. I'm not sure what to do anymore
Posted 1/22/2013 1:44 AM (GMT 0)
Hi there, I am a medical billing manager and have been in the business for 20 years. The 3 things my rheumatologist told me is to get sleep, exercise and NO STRESS. My job is 100% stress and is not getting better. Every year the rules of insurance changes and one insurance is not the same as the other and there are so many guidelines you need to make sure your following especially with the HIPPA laws. The Obama act is not going to make it easier as a lot of the doctors will be loosing money with it. I am on both sides of the fence, I have no insurance because it is so expensive and I have a family of 5 and would be paying more than half my paycheck a month for insurance. I have this fibro and no insurance with expensive meds and doctors. I also, know why the doctors charge so much a lot of them are just money hungry but I have worked for many that are not and work with anyone and write a lot off for financial hardship for the patient. IT is the INSURANCE companies that are making it hard for EVERYONE. So in a nutshell it really depends on how much tolerance you have for stress. I have been dealing with the stress of work, my husband being self employed in construction in a terrible economy, 3 kids, not being able to work no more than 4 hours a day on the verge of loosing my house plus I know I need a lot more testing done which I can not afford. I am just about to run out of my meds and have to wait 2 more months before going back to the doctor hoping he will have more samples :/ I am sorry to sound so down to but I completely understand where you are coming from.
Posted 1/22/2013 3:28 PM (GMT 0)
This is not about medical billing, but I came across this post today about medical coding. Hope it's okay to post here--if for any reason it's not, please delete.

http://www.wahm.com/forum/coders-101/674095-change-career-paths-coding.html?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=
Posted 1/23/2013 7:19 AM (GMT 0)
If medical coding or billing is what you want to do, please check out The Andrews School out of Oklahoma City. They have online programs for billing, coding, and transcription. Linda Andrews owns The Andrews School and is a wonderful woman. She will give you an accurate view of what is expected of you and what you can expect.

Because of the outsourcing of transcription through the years and the sad state of working conditions for at-home transcriptionists, I wouldn't recommend medical transcription to anyone at this time; however, working in coding or billing might be a lot different.

I was a medical transcriptionist for many years and hung out at mtdaily.com, where I "met" Linda in the late 1990s.

I have no vested interest in The Andrews School. They come highly recommended, though.


www.andrewsschool.com/
Posted 1/25/2013 7:02 PM (GMT 0)
after reading these post I guess it doen't sound like a good idea after all. Honestly my heart and talents are wraped up in animals and music (I sing). By trade I am a groomer and a dog trainer. There is just NO work out there for that field right now. I got a job at a call center, But I have missed the entire month of January so far. They say as long as I have doctors notes, I will be okay. But I guess at this point my pain is just really getting me down. If I am having a good day pain wise, I am having dizzness, and if I am not having dizzness I am having pain. I am really just getting so tierd of this. I have been okay with my pain for the last 7 years. Then all of a sudden...BAM!!!!...now I cant do crap. Half the time I can't even get to my boyfriends house just to spend time with him. My grandmother keeps telling me to try for disablility. My problem is that I am 27...right now I have no kids...my boyfriend and future husband(we just need a ring) is on suplimintal income because he has a bad back.(he has had 6 back surgries) He only makes 600 a month and by the time he pays his car insurance, health insurance he only has about 100 left. So if I get on disability money will be really tight...and if we have kids...well you get the idea. I guess I am just really down today. But thank you all for your responses.
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