Becoming A Medical Reimbursement Technician - 1314 Words

My Ultimate goal is to become a Medical reimbursement Technician, because it’s a challenge; challenging myself is what I like to do. To be able to perform this job well you have to have the training, education, skills, knowledge, experience, communication skills, and customer services skills. This career field is very demanding and the availability for it is high. It is very critical when performing this job because with the important information that will be handled. The training includes knowing how to input data into medical office based software accurately and in a timely manner. This insures that the insurance, doctor, and patient gets billed and paid correctly and on time for services rendered. Having the ability to input a†¦show more content†¦All information gets coded, and billed to all responsible parties. The education background is there so that you know the medical language of the field. Having the ability to know what the body consists of and how it fun ctions. This will help with reading a patients chart and knowing what codes to use for services provide to the patient. A hospital would not want to hire me if I did not have the right training and education background; over a person who has the training, knowledge, and education. Many courses that need to be completed is a follows: health information, insurance, medical law ethics, coding and billing, reimbursement. You have to know medical terminology which is the language the doctor uses and this will allow you to know what to code and bill. Anatomy Physiology which is the structures of the body and how they work. You have to know pharmacology which is what pharmacy workers need to know when disbursing medication. You have to know Pathophysiology which is diseases and how they work. This is good for an MRT person to know so that they know how to interpret when it shows up on a patients chart. When completing all of these courses it is good to have an externship ready and think about shadowing someone in the career. Having the skills looks well on your resume from an employer and employee stand point. Your skill set will allow the employer to say if you are able to perform the hob to its highest performance rate. As an employee