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Work at Home
Be a Medical Billing Specialist
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COMPARE THESE
ADVANTAGES WITH ANY
OTHER PROFESSION!
• Save money! No office clothes,
lunches, commute or daycare
• You can earn $lO to S2O an hour
• Choose your hours... any time
of day...full-time or part-time
• No time wasted traveling to work
• Be your own boss
• Continuing graduate support
throughout your career
• Work in any of the 50 states
• Prestige of the medical profession
• Plenty of excellent office jobs, too
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Earn up to S4O/000 a year
No previous experience needed...learn at home.
Prepare medical claims for doctors, hospitals, clinics.
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terminology, procedures and how to prepare medical
claims for Medicare, Medicaid and private patients.
Experts show you how to do your work to meet the
exacting standards of the medical profession.
Compare the money you can make at home
as a Medical Claims and Billing Specialist
with any other job.
*What other job can you start with as little as four
months of training at home and earn up to $40,000 a
year as your experience and skills increase? Plus,
you get these extra benefits—no transportation cost
or time wasted going to and from your job, no
expensive office clothes, no child day care costs,
work whatever hours you choose...early mornings,
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Finance
Improving
Your Credit
by BARB WEBB
Your credit score has a
significant impact on your financial
life, influencing your mortgage and
credit card interest rates, insurance rates
and even employment opportunities.
According to the Fair Isaac Corp.,
which created the commonly used
“FICO score," credit scores are based on
credit history, including payment his
tory and amounts owed. Forgetting to
make a payment, carrying high credit
card balances or even not using your
credit can lower your score.
FICO scores range from 300 to 850,
and, although lender requirements vary,
FICO recommends maintaining a score
above 700. The most direct way to find
out your score is to purchase a report
for about $lO from www.myfico.com or by
calling (800) 319-4433.
If your score is less than stellar, take the
following steps to help clean up your credit:
• Request a copy of your credit
report. Visit AnnualCnditßeport.com or
call (877) 322-8228 to obtain a free annu
al credit report from the three nationwide
consumer credit reporting agencies: Equi
fax, Experian and Trans Union.
• Address account errors. If you
spot an account or collection activity on
your record that does not belong to you,
act immediately. Visit the Federal Trade
Commissions identity theft website, www.
consumer.govlidtheft , or call (877) 438-4338
to learn how to handle the matter.
• Resolve collection activities. Past
due accounts or collection activity can
ruin your credit rating. "If you get a col
lection notice, call the collection agency
and ask for a payment plan,” says Donna
Simonson, owner of Bath Credit Services
in Bath, N.Y. (pop. 5,641). “If you adhere
to the plan, your debt may be removed
from the reporting agencies.”
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