Passive income: NO

Earning passive income as a Medical Records Retrieval Specialist is challenging. This role typically involves active tasks like contacting healthcare providers, managing requests, and ensuring compliance with regulations. To make it passive, one would need to establish a system with significant automation and outsourcing, such as hiring a team to handle daily operations and using software to streamline processes. However, most people in this field do not reach this level of passivity. It tends to remain an active job unless one scales up to a business model with multiple clients and employees. On forums like Reddit and YouTube, few report achieving true passivity, and many fall for myths about easy automation. Realistically, it becomes passive for those who can invest in building a business infrastructure, but not for individual freelancers or small-scale operators.