Best Jobs For Former Billing Specialists [2023]

It’s tough to be a billing specialist nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a billing specialist isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become billing specialists in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many billing specialists no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former billing specialists to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Best Jobs For Former BILLING SPECIALISTS

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former BILLING SPECIALISTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Customer Service Representative	3.13%
2	Administrative Assistant	2.65%
3	Office Manager	2.23%
4	Accounts Receivable Specialist	2.16%
5	Medical Coder	1.46%
6	Accounts Payable Clerk	1.35%
7	Sales Associate	0.7%
8	Billing Manager	0.7%
9	Receptionist	0.67%
10	Accounting Clerk	0.65%
11	Office Assistant	0.64%
12	Specialist	0.64%
13	Reimbursement Specialist	0.63%
14	Billing Representative	0.61%
15	Team Leader	0.59%
16	Medical Assistant	0.58%
17	Cashier	0.54%
18	Claim Processor	0.52%
19	Medical Records Clerk	0.47%
20	Collections Specialist	0.46%
21	Office Administrator	0.46%
22	Staff Accountant	0.44%
23	Finance Analyst	0.43%
24	Coordinator	0.43%
25	Patient Access Representative	0.43%
26	Pharmacist Technician	0.42%
27	Analyst	0.41%
28	Medical Biller Coder	0.41%
29	Supervisor	0.4%
30	Registered Nurse	0.39%
31	Manager	0.38%
32	Assistant Manager	0.37%
33	Account Representative	0.37%
34	Data Entry Clerk	0.37%
35	Account Manager	0.37%
36	Insurance Specialist	0.37%
37	Medical Receptionist	0.37%
38	Substitute Teacher	0.36%
39	Accountant	0.35%
40	Business Office Manager	0.35%
41	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.35%
42	Finance Counselor	0.35%
43	Collector	0.34%
44	Patient Service Representative	0.34%
45	Customer Service Trainer	0.32%
46	Human Resources Coordinator	0.31%
47	Service Representative	0.31%
48	Operations Manager	0.31%
49	Accounts Receivable Clerk	0.31%
50	Data Entry Associate	0.29%
51	Representative	0.28%
52	Bill Collector	0.28%
53	Billing Supervisor	0.28%
54	Accounting Assistant	0.27%
55	Volunteer	0.27%
56	Owner	0.27%
57	Front Desk Receptionist	0.26%
58	Clerk	0.26%
59	Billing Analyst	0.26%
60	Practice Manager	0.25%
61	Internship	0.25%
62	Biller	0.24%
63	Account Specialist	0.24%
64	Project Manager	0.24%
65	Teacher	0.24%
66	Data Entry Specialist	0.23%
67	Legal Assistant	0.23%
68	Bookkeeper	0.22%
69	Business Analyst	0.22%
70	Home Health Aid	0.22%
71	Medical Billing Manager	0.22%
72	Front Desk Coordinator	0.22%
73	Collections Representative	0.22%
74	Associate	0.21%
75	Administrator	0.21%
76	Consultant	0.2%
77	Claim Specialist	0.2%
78	Data Analyst	0.2%
79	Sales Representative	0.2%
80	Customer Service Specialist	0.2%
81	Secretary	0.2%
82	Executive Assistant	0.2%
83	Unit Secretary	0.2%
84	Auditor	0.18%
85	Case Manager	0.18%
86	Server	0.18%
87	Licensed Practical Nurse	0.18%
88	Credentialing Specialist	0.18%
89	Claims Analyst	0.18%
90	Claims Representative	0.17%
91	Benefit Specialist	0.17%
92	Accounts Receivable Manager	0.17%
93	Operations Specialist	0.16%
94	Human Resources Manager	0.16%
95	Insurance Verification Specialist	0.16%
96	Credit Analyst	0.15%
97	Technician	0.15%
98	Cash Application Specialist	0.15%
99	Customer Care Representative	0.14%
100	Intake Coordinator	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former BILLING SPECIALISTS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a billing specialist would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former billing specialists to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former BILLING SPECIALISTS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed billing specialist under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a billing specialist, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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