Medical Biller

Career Area: Clerical and Administrative

Occupation Group: Billing and Collections

Salary

Percentile wages tell how much a certain percentage of an overall population in a geographic area or within a given industry or field makes. The percentile wage estimate is the value of a wage below which a certain percent of workers fall.

An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Medical Biller earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $33,211

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $35,744

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Handles payments and financial transactions between health care providers and patients. Manages systems for mailing bills and collecting and recording payments. Works in healthcare facilities and hospitals.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Medical Biller is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Detail-Oriented: A detail oriented person is someone who pays attention to the details and can make a conscious effort to understand causes instead of just the effects, and that does this in a second nature type of way.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
• Organizational Skills: Experience with a systematic process of structuring, integrating, co-ordinating task goals, and activities to resources in order to attain objectives.
• Multi-Tasking: In computing, multitasking is a concept of performing multiple tasks (also known as processes) over a certain period of time by executing them concurrently.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Medical Billing: Medical billing is a payment practice within the United States health system.
• Customer Billing: A customer billing is any kind of business event where a business collects money from a customer for goods or services provided.
• Billing: the process of making out or sending invoices
• Medical Coding: Working experience of Medical Coding. Medical classification, or medical coding, is the process of transforming descriptions of medical diagnoses and procedures into universal medical code numbers. The diagnoses and procedures are usually taken from a variety of sources within the health care record, such as the transcription of the physician's notes, laboratory results, radiologic results, and other sources.
• ICD-10: ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Distinguishing Skills

Any Medical Biller that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Patient Billing: Medical billing is a payment practice within the United States health system.
• Electronic Health Records: An electronic health record (EHR), or electronic medical record (EMR), is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically-stored health information in a digital format.
• Insurance Follow-Up:
• HCPCS Coding: The Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS, often pronounced by its acronym as hick picks) is a set of health care procedure codes based on the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology (CPT).
• Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable: Accounts receivable is a legally enforceable claim for payment held by a business for goods supplied and/or services rendered that customers/clients have ordered but not paid for.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Medical Billing Specialist
• Medical Biller
• Medical Billing
• Medical Biller/Collector
• Medical Collector