So you want to start a medical billing or coding company or boost your existing company. Now what? Fortunately, there are resources available to help you succeed. 

In this article, we’ll highlight 10 recently published books covering a wide variety of topics that can help medical billing company owners elevate their businesses. 

We’ll start with the obvious. All medical billing company owners should have an updated set of coding manuals at their disposal to ensure data and revenue integrity. Be sure to pre-order the 2026 editions. 

Written by a certified professional coder with more than 40 years of experience as a healthcare business manager, this book is a comprehensive billing office reference that’s also good for understanding payer policies and training new billers as you scale your business.

A must-have resource for all medical billing company owners, this book helps keep staff up to date with the latest terminology and healthcare advances so they can assign the most accurate medical codes and bring the highest level of value to their clients.

Learn principles of anatomy, physiology, and pathology with this resource that includes more than 500 full-color photographs and drawings that are helpful in assigning accurate and complete medical codes. It’s a valuable resource for your staff that can keep critical information at the forefront of their minds.

Written by a mother/daughter team who started their own successful medical billing service in 1994, and recently updated in 2022, this book includes information on how to determine your fees, land your first client, and more. 

Want information specifically on how to price your services using flat fee billing, percentage billing, per-claim fee, and hourly rate? Be sure to check out their book, Pricing Your Medical Billing Service, also published in 2022. 

Finally, for information specific to writing and negotiating contracts with provider clients, check out their 2022 book, Write a Kick Butt Contract for Your Medical Billing Service. These are all great resources for medical billing company owners looking to establish and scale their business.

In a competitive marketplace, medical billing company owners must be able to articulate why physicians should partner with them. And while this book doesn’t focus specifically on the healthcare industry, it’s easy to translate some of the concepts. 

The book will help medical billing company owners deeply understand their clients so they can tailor meaningful marketing messages and gain a competitive advantage. 

Along the same lines, be sure to check out 12 Months to $1 Million: How to Pick a Winning Product, Build a Real Business, and Become a Seven-Figure Entrepreneur. This book provides a roadmap to building a successful business in one year or less. 

As remote work becomes more commonplace, medical billing company owners may find themselves managing employees offsite or even offshore. It’s critical to understand how to keep remote teams motivated and productive, and this book provides valuable advice for how to navigate enduring challenges teams and managers face in remote and hybrid work.

With a remote workforce comes cybersecurity challenges and concerns, and this book does an excellent job of providing medical billing company owners with simple tools and habits to protect data, privacy, and productivity. Written in clear and accessible language, it is a must-read for anyone working remotely. 

As medical practice clients begin to dabble in automation and artificial intelligence (AI), medical billing company owners must be able to accommodate new workflows and provide additional value. This book is written for anyone working in healthcare finance with a focus on AI in a rapidly evolving landscape.

Written for revenue cycle management (RCM) professionals, this book is a must-read for planning, implementing, and evaluating patient financial engagement processes. In it, medical billing company owners will find articles, tips, workbook exercises, and more designed to build strategic patient engagement practices.  

Being an effective medical billing company owner requires more than just knowing codes. It’s about blending regulatory knowledge, operational excellence, financial strategy, and client-relationship management. 

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