If you don't have CCS or CPC nobody will - touch you Posted: Oct 24th, 2018 - 4:38 pm In Reply to: Question for coders with MT experience - Anon
filing improper codes gets the facility in trouble. It's what the EMR/EMH has been all about - catching billing fraud. There are coding jobs, you have to be certified. Pass the test..it's a doozy. Think ACT or SAT. Coders, unlike MTs, can take their books with them, which have definitions in and you can write notes in your book, it's yours. But it's timed so don't waste any of it.
Look on Indeed, lots of jobs for coders, at home. Some other jobs that they are looking for coders to do them. I'm applying for one right now. They'll take an MT, but we are fourth on the list in front of Healthcare Documentation Specialist, which is last. There was something after RN but I haven't figured out what it is. C -something-L I think.
So in coding you look at the diagnosis and try to find the matching code, sometimes you have to think and I think years of MT would help. But it may be boring. But on the other hand it can pay up to 30 bucks an hour. Mayo Clinic advertises for 27 an hour.
These are the gals that get the money, the better you can code, the more money the whatever gets; all within legal limits, of course.
Generally, doctors don't know good coders from bad, kind of like with MT Companies back in the day.
You could go on YouTube and watch videos but BE WARNED... people who make YOUTUBE videos are doing it for money. They will try to sell you a training kit or bootcamp or something. Keep it free and you can't go wrong. There was an interesting hour-long session on medical billing I started watching but had to quit that and log on and work. YouTube is a wealth of info, free info. You will get an idea of how to use the books (actually there are 3, ICD-10, CPT, and hicpics (Medicare) - you have to verify so you look things up one way and then the other and if both ways take you to the same place, it's probably a sound code. It's like anything else, in the beginning you are slow. There is a girl who does sessions all over America. She has a tab system that she sells with her training to help you use your book faster - this is not a replacement for coding training and certification - just to help you gain speed. If you search YouTube for coding seminar tabs it might come up.
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