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Online Medical Billing Course

The need for professional medical billing and coding specialists is growing everyday. Hospitals, medical offices, clinics, practices, doctors, and even insurance companies are all looking for people who are not only willing to deal with the complexities of insurance handling but also the capability to do so. As a result, medical billing has become one of the fastest growing occupations in the healthcare industry. The problem lies in the difficulty of handling billing and overall practice management when there are other matters to take care of. Even the small family-owned medical practices have steadily increasing liability costs each year - costs that could translate to loss in profits. As a preventive medicine, medical billing can help reduce these costs and at the same time increase profits for the practice. But medical billing is an industry not that easy to get into. To achieve even a little bit of success requires hard work and dedication and skills honed to perfection. This

A Brief Guide to Medical Malpractice Insurance Policy

A medical malpractice insurance policy is designed to protect doctors from misusing their knowledge or not applying the right practice at the right time. Medicine is a very complex field in which you cannot afford to make mistakes for the simple reason that your decision may injure someone temporarily, permanently or in the worst case scenario, even take someone's life. A medical malpractice insurance policy protects one as much as possible against such disasters. How Does a Medical Malpractice Insurance Policy Work? The provider of the medical malpractice insurance policy has two primary obligations - defense and indemnity. The obligations to defend requires the provider to hire a lawyer to defend the charges bought against the alleged doctor and; the obligation to indemnify requires the provider to pay an amount up to the policy limits settlement or judgment on any covered claim against the doctor. The policy provider will generally hire a lawyer that has been agreed up