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What Goes Into Starting A Successful Home Based Medical Transcription Business?
This article is advice about what medical transcription is, what
skills a home based medical transcriptionist needs, what the
initial investment is to start a home based medical
transcription business and what someone should consider when
choosing the right medical transcription training course.
What Goes Into Starting A Successful Home Based Medical
Transcription Business?
If you don't know that's OK! Most beginners to the home based
medical transcription industry don't either but this website
will give you an expert overview of the industry. We will also
direct you to what is being referred to as "The Bible" of the
home based medical transcription business so whatever isn't
covered here will be then (in-depth) by a very successful 9 year
home based medical transcription veteran. You Won't Go Wrong If
You Act Upon What We Share With You!
Who Am I & Why Should You Follow My Advice?
That's a fair question and I would be rather shocked if you
didn't want to know. Please understand that the following answer
to your question is not an attempt to satisfy my own ego but
rather to show you that I am not some "QUACK" that just
dispenses unfounded theories or hype. My name is Paul Hackett
and helping people start their own home based medical billing
(MB) & medical transcription (MT) businesses is my passion.
I am the president of a successful home based medical billing
and transcription business (Stelo Medical Management, Inc.), a
medical consultation business (Stelo Enterprises, Ltd.) and the
author of the internets #1 selling home based medical billing
business startup guide entitled "Medical Billing Book For Home
Based Beginners".
I've been in the home based medical billing & transcription
business for 8 years, built all my businesses from scratch, have
helped hundreds of medical billing & transcription beginners
start their own home based MB & MT businesses. I have earned my
trust within both industries by giving out only useful and
truthful information about the field. Now that you know who I am
and what I represent lets get down to the meat of the issue!
Is Medical Transcription A Legitimate Home Based Business?
Yes, it is and it has been for decades. It is not one of those
widely advertised scams that you would see online or in
newspapers like the medical billing industry is plagued with.
Medical Transcriptionists have three options when deciding how
they want to work:
1) Work inside a practice, hospital, etc.- if you take this
route then you could make the equivalent of $9-15 per hour
depending on your skill, accuracy and geographic location. As
with any other job you will be supplied with everything you need
(including benefits) by your employer.
2) Work as an independent/self employed medical transcriptionist
- This is when you work completely for/by yourself, you take
care of your taxes, you sign up and maintain your own
client/accounts, you market your services, you provide your own
benefits, etc. You'll probably start out at the equivalent of
$10-15 per hour (or 6-14c per line) and in time (years) you
could be earning the equivalent of $15-$40 per hour depending
upon the amount of work, clients and type of equipment that you
use. A lot of medical transcriptionist around the nation rather
doing business this way (including me) and once you see the pros
and cons of the business and speak to a CPA you'll see that this
route is rather lucrative and you're the boss. Simply put, you
own the company so you do whatever you must to make it a
success. Or;
3) Contract with a national company - with this type of medical
transcription you are referred to as Statutory Employee. It is
the same as the above mentioned position with the exception that
the company you contract with usually pays 7.5% of the FICA tax,
they might give you certain equipment to do the job their way
and they will assign the workload expectation and pay.
What Is Medical Transcription?
Medical transcription is the process whereby one accurately and
swiftly transcribes medical records dictated by doctors and
others, including history and physical reports, clinic notes,
office notes, operative reports, consultation notes, discharge
summaries, letters, psychiatric evaluations, laboratory reports,
x-ray reports and pathology reports.
It involves receiving dictation by tape, digital system or voice
file, the use of ear/head phones, a foot pedal for start-stop
control, a variety of word processing programs and sometimes the
use of a printer and a modem. Today many home based medical
transcriptionists still deliver their completed work back to the
office but with technology being what it is now it's just as
simple to deliver the work via a modem. If you work of a
national company they may require you to use a modem to download
and transmit the work.
What Skills Does A Home Based Medical Transcriptionist
Need?
Let me put it this way, having a computer at home and knowing
how to type fast is not enough to become a successful medical
transcriptionist. You MUST:
Take A Really Good Online Medical Transcription Training Course
(or attend a good school-college-trade or vocational school),
Have Good Listening Skills,
Great English Grammar Skills,
Excellent Computer Skills,
Superior Research Skills,
Possess High Typing Speeds With Great Accuracy,
Pay Great Attention To Detail,
Have A Great Foundation In Medical Terminology, Anatomy,
Physiology, Pharmacology, Laboratory Tests And Values, Medical
Equipment and Procedures,
Possess The Ability To Work Alone (Usually you won't have much
contact with others),
Possess The Ability To Work Under Pressure And Sometimes Under A
Deadline, and
Posses The Ability To Sit In Front Of A Computer For Extended
Amounts Of Time.
You will need to invest in several different types of
publications such as: an English dictionary, a grammar and style
guide, a complete medical dictionary, a drug index, a laboratory
and pathology word book, a medical word book by specialty, a
surgery word book, a medical abbreviation word book, other
specialty word books and a physician directory and other
journals.
You will also need to use several different pieces of software
such as a medical spellchecker and an abbreviation system such
as PRD or Smartype. You will also need to learn all you can
about your own computer so you can employ all the ticks and
shortcuts within it to greatly enhance your productivity.
Remember that you need to always have your hands on the keyboard
because the more you type and type accurately is the greater
your pay will be.
What's The Initial Investment Needed To Do Medical
Transcription?
This varies and it depends on several factors like:
Do you
already have a home office or if you're starting from
scratch?
Do you have formal medical transcription training or not?
Do you already have most of the books you will need?
Do you have the necessary software programs to do the job
professionally?
Do you need to purchase additional software or hardware?
The great thing is that you can buy most of the things you need
(used) from places like Ebay and other places that support the
home based medical transcription industry. Your four major
purchases will be your medical transcription training,
transcriber, computer and reference books so your investment
will be very minimal compared to doing medical billing from home
where the investment can be as much as $6,000 to get the
business of the ground.
How Do You Choose The Right Medical Transcription Training
Course?
OK, this is the last segment that I'm going to cover but at the
conclusion I will tell you exactly where to get the most
in-depth, informative and comprehensive medical transcription
training for the least amount of money to start your home based
business.
When it comes to a medical transcription course or medical
transcription correspondence course then you will have a
plethora of choices (especially if you search online). So let's
start with your choices:
College Courses
Vocational School or Trade School
On The Job Training
Learn On Your Own or
Online Medical Transcription Training Course or Correspondence
Courses
Now allow me to say that how one medical transcriptionist got
their training might not be right type of training for you
because everyone learns differently.
I know people that have learned the trade by doing on-the-job
training with the help of other experienced medical
transcriptionists but the learning curve was huge because they
knew nothing before starting. I also know people that trained
themselves (that's bold and I commend them) but even they have
told me if they were to do it all over again that they would
have learned it through some sort of school or online medical
transcription training course (once again the learning curve is
a killer). Here's a break down of what a good medical
transcription training course should consist of:
Medical Terminology,
Acronyms, eponyms, abbreviations,
Anatomy,
Physiology,
Laboratory tests and values,
Medical procedures and equipment,
Drugs,
Transcription formatting,
Ethics of medical transcription,
Research methods and resources,
Brush-up typing (if you need it),
Brush-up English grammar ,
Marketing,
MT "business" skills
You should also look for a medical transcription training course
that will give you all the up-to-date equipment you'll need to
learn on (at no addition charge), award you with a "Certificate
Of Completion" (not to be confused with "Certification") and if
the course or school has employment programs for after you
complete the medical transcription training at no addition
expense to you then that's great!
I have had the opportunity to speak with several working MT's,
home based MT's, schools, online medical transcription training
courses, the alumni of medical transcription training programs
and then applied my own experience to base my conclusions on. I
feel that if you have the time to attend a good local college,
vocational or trade school then go that route (it will be
expensive) but if you don't have the time or money then take a
good online medical transcription training course. The problem
like I said is that there are so many that it's an overwhelming
task to choose a good and affordable one .
I chose the following because they give you a very well-rounded
education, great phone-email-fax-mail support and a slew of
bonuses that come with the course instead of as an addition with
an extra charge. Here are a few extras: up-to-date equipment
used in the industry, a copy of the course in hard copy,
unlimited number of final exam retakes, 2 year graduate job
database membership, letters of recommendation, reasonable
payment options, evaluation of your resume for employment,
evaluation of your home based MT sales/marketing letter and a
hotline to help you after you become employed just to name a few.
You'll see that you have four different learning options that
are very well priced depending on what goals you are trying to
achieve. For Example: lets say that you choose their "Home Based
Medical Center Package" to learn medical transcription, medical
billing and medical coding (Wow! What A Package). Think about
how much you'll be worth to a physician, group practice, clinic,
hospital, nursing home, etc..
Imagine the amounts of money/salary that you'll command from
employers or your clients due to your knowledge of all three
professions. Plus in a home based business you'll have the
ability to offer each of your clients three distinct services
compared to most businesses that only offer one (you'll be
financially secure in no time)! So without further delay here's
my #1 choice for the best medical transcription training course
of 2005: http://tinyurl.com/2347z.
Trust me when I say you'll be doing yourself and your business a
big disservice if you don't enroll because if you train with the
2nd or 3rd best what's the likelihood you'll be considered as a
1st rate medical transcriptionist in your potential clients eyes?
Starting a medical transcription business from home is not
rocket science but you should get all the expert advice that you
can so that your journey will be a less rocky one. I have read
several "Home Based Medical Transcription Books" but none of
them cater to the beginners to the industry or even come close
to the amount of useful information that is given in Michele's
book entitled "Step-By-Step Guide To Medical Transcription At
Home" http://tinyurl.com/wool.
You must read Michele's ebook today because she covers all the
necessary topics that you must know about the field and because
she also owns a very successful home based medical transcription
business she is more than qualified to help you become the
success that you see yourself being.
I've really enjoyed the time we've spent together today and I
hope that you learned what you need to consider before you
decide to venture into the home based medical transcription
business.
Here's To Your Success,
Paul Hackett "The Medical Business Mastermind"
About the author:
Paul G. Hackett's only purpose is to truthfully educate people
about the who's, what's, where's, when's and why's of starting,
opening and operating a successful home based medical billing or
transcription business. Visit
http://medicalbillingbooks.tripod.com
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