Medical assisting is a multifaceted career. As such, a person in that career may be
required to take on many duties in the medical office that are administrative in nature.
The medical office has customers who have various payment arrangements, such as
third-party payers (usually insurance carriers) and payment plans, and who may also
have large outstanding balances. A proper understanding and administration of
billingfor both third-party payers and patientsas well as payment collection methods
is therefore required. |