You don't need to be familiar with the arcane medical terminolgy. This is similar to converting a written letter to e-mail. There may be words that you are not familiar with, but you can still copy them. The clearinghouse will catch many mistakes that you make, which you can easily correct and resubmit before they are forwarded to the insurance company. Mistakes that are not caught by the clearinghouse are noted by the insurance company and you merely resubmit the claim.
Most people start billing part-time for just one doctor.
Many billers increase thier work load to full-time status by handling the workload for three or more doctors. Some even establish their own medical claims processing business and eventually hire and train their own claims processors. The average doctor submits approximately 100-125 claims per week. At the end of the month, your Medisoft software automatically creates an itemized invoice for each of the doctors that you bill for. Most billers invoice their clinets monthly, but some bill weekly or bi-monthly.