[nabop] advice on new career

[Christina Mitchell]

So you mean after I'm finished with this school that is if I get
excepted successfully, I would need to go to yet another school?
Christina

On 12/21/07, cheryl echevarria <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all this is just a little advice for those who want to go into medical
> billing/coding medical records, etc.  It is a very doable thing to learn and
> to you can go to many places for it such as doctors office, hospital,
> insurance companies.  But watch out where you go, especially for the coding,
> I wouldn't recommend online for it, it should be taught by someone.  I would
> first not recommend to anyone the way I went into it, explore the field, go
> to the AMBA which is the American Medical Biller Association as well as
> www.AHIMA.org
>   which is the American Health Information Management Association, if you
> really want to do the right thing, and go to a college in your area where
> they teach HIT which is Health Information Technology that is what the
> course is called you will be able to get accreditions, certifications as
> well as move on to get  you BA, and masters in this field.  I didn't know
> this until I am almost done which I will be done in April and then in the
> fall I will be attending suffolk community college if anyone is interested
> in this field please let me know. I will help the best way I can
>
> Cheryl Echevarria
> Treasurer
> NFB of NY/Long Island Chapter
> skype: angeldn38
> windows live messenger: mailto:cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com
> cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com
>