Are there home-based employment opportunities for medical coders?
While there are a few companies who hire home-based medical coding and billing professionals, most medical coding and billing work is performed onsite at hospitals and clinics. There appears to be a trend toward outsourcing of coding and billing work to third-party vendors. As this trend catches on, it is possible that more coding and billing work will be done in homes and that coding will evolve to become more of a home-based career — much like medical transcription is today. However, at this point it is important to point out that this is not the norm and that most coding and billing is still accomplished in a hospital and clinic setting.
