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I have finally finished discussing the medical transcription field in general, and the MT schools to attend to become an MT (yay!) so now we’re onto the post-graduation world, where you are applying for jobs left and right. “Should I work at home or in an office?” is one of the first questions you have to ask yourself, and the follow up question is of course, “Can I work at home as a medical transcriptionist?”
The answer is a resounding yes! When I first started researching what jobs I could do at home, I thought that medical transcription, medical coding, and medical billing were all basically the same thing. I found out as I dug deeper that they most definitely were not. They have many differences between them, but one difference that many people care about the most is that you can do medical transcription from home very easily, medical coding can only be done from home if you have two to three years experience at a bricks and mortar job, and medical billing can almost never be done from home.
I have heard, and I haven’t done any research on this to find out for sure if it’s true (but it sounds about right,) that roughly 80% of the medical transcription being done in the United States is being done at home. This is a huge work-at-home market, and you will have no problem finding a job at home. Worried about how the technical side of working from home works? Read on to my next blog where I cover this exact question.