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- Looking to get into the Medical Billing business. Want to know more from people involved?
- How difficult is it to obtain a career in medical billing/coding?
- Has anyone gone to school for medical billing and coding specialst?
- Does anyone have a medical billing certificate (instead of associates degree) and can find work easily?
- tax question. Started a medical billing agency need to know what tax form I have to give to the doctors?
Nov
13
Whats an easier way to learn these medical terms for my Medical Billing course?
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LuvMyAutisticSon asked:
I am studying to become a Medical Billing Specialist and have to learn a bunch of medical terms. Is there a better way to memorize all of these prefixes, roots, combining forms, and suffixes that make up all the medical terms? Please help. There is just too much to memorize all at once…I don’t see how doctors do it!
Im a stay at home mom and doing this on my own free time. My husband works long hours and doesnt really hep much with my studying. I study the best I can just need a little boost on better memorization of all these. Not very easy with 2 little ones to look after, both under the age of 2.
Electronic billing software and medical billing software
I am studying to become a Medical Billing Specialist and have to learn a bunch of medical terms. Is there a better way to memorize all of these prefixes, roots, combining forms, and suffixes that make up all the medical terms? Please help. There is just too much to memorize all at once…I don’t see how doctors do it!
Im a stay at home mom and doing this on my own free time. My husband works long hours and doesnt really hep much with my studying. I study the best I can just need a little boost on better memorization of all these. Not very easy with 2 little ones to look after, both under the age of 2.
Electronic billing software and medical billing software
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I used flashcards. They worked wonders during nursing school, I never made below a 98 on a terms test using those.
No, sorry, the only way to learn it is: learn it. You are going to have to study, study, study. We all went through it who were in the medical profession in any way. You can do it. Believe in yourself. Try flashcards, self-tests, etc. Try to talk a family member or friend into being your ‘tutor’. Good luck.
Flashcards … Study
You just have to learn it somehow. I don’t know if it’s what you’re doing, but I took a course at a local community college to help me.
Buy a packet of 3X5 cards. Or lots of packets.
Make flashcards - the term on one side, definition on the other.
When ever you sit down, do your flashcards.
You’ll do fine.
I am currently attending college to be a Certified Medical Assistant. In my first semester I had to take Medical Terms. I asked my instructors the same thing. Is there an method to learning this terms? They replied that this is the only course that requires actual memorization. A lot of help that was. Anyway, I used flash cards. Also, as time goes on you will apply these terms and they will begin to make sense. For example, just about everyone knows what a tonsillectomy is, right? The suffix ‘ectomy’ means excision or to remove. And we all know what the tonsils are. We know this because we ourselves or someone we know has experienced tonsillitis; ‘itis’ means inflammation ‘tonsils’ well, tonsils. Anyway, it will come to you. There is no way you will remember them all. Good Luck!
P.S. In medical billing knowing the medical terms and their definition is the least of your worries. Getting the ICD-9, CPT codes correct is the most important. If the codes are wrong you don’t get paid. (I have four years in medical billing)
If you just learn the prefixes and suffixes - everything else is just a small word in between.