Is there a ready market for the skills acquired in coding?
There sure is, as you have probably surmised by now. Health care in America is an explosive industry accounting for the top 3 producers in gross national product (and income), and still outpaces all but a few industrial sectors in growth. Four million jobs will open up in the next ten years in the health care industry, and many, many of those positions are outside the care-giving arena specifically, such as consulting firms and claims-review/auditing firms. Coding is sufficiently specialized that coders are paid exceptionally well, are and will remain in very high demand. Statistically, Health Information Management (HIM), of which coding is a part, is a rapidly growing field and is expected to outpace average job growth rates in other fields through the year 2006. According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2003 Edition, produced by Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, health information technicians are projected to be one of the 20 fastest growing occupatio
