There are a lot of work from home schemes that you can find online. They all seem pretty inviting too, but many of them just seem a little bit too good to be true. And you know what they say about things that seem too good to be true: There usually are.

The big one you see all of the time is filling out surveys. Supposedly you can get cash just for filling out surveys online. But then when you sign up to do this you find out that the surveys don’t pay cash. Instead you earn reward points. And you have to earn a lot of these points before you can trade them in for stuff. That’s not money, that’s stuff!

But there is one out there that I don’t think is a scheme. You can do medical transcriptions or medical billing from the comfort of your own home. All you need is some training which can be done online. Once you are trained you may have to buy some specialized software like medical billing software, but then you are good to go. I’m kind of excited about the prospect of earning some money by working at home, so I’m going to follow up and see if this is for real.

There has been a lot of talk lately about how the medical field is one of the only sectors of employment that is seeing growth. Unlike other industries that are in dire straights to the point of needing government bailouts, the medical field is actually hiring new people instead of firing their old ones. And based on the demographics of our aging society, this trend is expected to continue for quite a while.

Of course when we think of the medical field the first thing that comes to mind is doctors and nurses. But there is much more to this career area than just the part where people practice medicine. Think of all of the support and infrastructure that is needed to pull of what we call our modern health care system.

One often overlooked area is medical billing. And if medical billing itself is not overlooked, than how about the people that develop the software needed for medical billing? Medical billing software is truly specialty software. And people that develop this software are in high demand because it is such a dynamic field. Just when systems are set in stone, along comes something new (like government involvement) and everything changes. So there is a huge need and good job security in developing medical billing software.