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Lost my coding job to EMR - sm

Posted: Mar 15, 2012

Hospital I work for just switched over to Epic. I was informed this week that I will be laid off as a coder - I am no longer needed. Instead, they will hire coders as data analysts, document improvement specialists and managers. But, in order to get these jobs I need a degree. I do not have a degree, just my CCS as well sa my CPC. I feel like crying and giving up on this career. First as a laid of MT to a laid off coder. I don't want to be in this buisness anymore. Think I'll go back to school to be a dental hygienist or something. Ughh

Lost coding job - jan2

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Okay, M, this is what I was talking about! Andrews is not going to be enough!

M - see below under Coder Could I Get Your Input - nm - jan2

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nm

Unless you live under a rock - sm

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If you are being up front about your credentials and unless you live under a rock somewhere, there are plenty of jobs for credentialed coders. There is more to your story than you are telling us.

Glad someone else saw it. - Agree

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Agree.

What I don't understand is . . . - sm

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What I don't understand about the people on this board is their expectation that when they get a job it will stay the same forever and that they don't have to learn anything ever again.

Below, everyone has emphasized the need to grow and change. We said coding is changing. Several posts outlined suggestions to learn coding and leverage that into a degree program.

Look at what your post said. Three job categories that are higher than coding were offered to you. They are offering BETTER JOBS. How is that being "laid off?"

If you do not have a degree, GET ONE.

Really, look at what you said. You complain that you have no degree, but in the next breath say that you think you will go to school to be a dental assistant . . . which requires a degree.

A couple of things are not adding up here. One is that very few laid-off MTs have had time yet to learn coding, get two certifications and become established in a hospital coding job. How did you do it so fast? The other is that the exact same jobs we mention as possibile growth jobs were offered to you by your hospital. Interestingly, none of the possible alternatives that we did NOT mention here were offered. What an interesting coincidence.

The third thing is how fast Jan2 swooped in to say she told us so and give Andrews an unnecessary trashing.

I think it is all suspicious, but if it happened I hope you can get over the surprise quickly and get on with what you should have been doing all along.

I never recommend that anyone stop advancing their education. I do not see that learning coding at Andrews could stop that process and I speak as someone who completed that program and DID leverage it into an HIM degree. My employer paid for most of it, so maybe yours will, too.

My first reaction was that it may not have been "laid" off at all - My Thoughts

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It may be a matter of having just lost a job because it wasn't a good fit for you. Pick yourself up and go do something that is. We have no way to know if you got fired for (whatever) or not. Your message doesn't make sense though, so my own advice to you is do something you are good at. This apparently wasn't it. Don't waste time moping around about it. Find something and be successful. Wish you the best in a new career that fits your skills, your work ethics, your character, and your personality. Once you get that new and different kind of work, give it your best!

It's possible that administrative work is not your best thing - Please see message

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You know, it's just possible that you are better suited for hands-on patient care. Some people are. I can think of dozens of people I know who can't make it doing anything related to business or clerical or administrative, but they are excellent doing patient care.

That's what I would recommend anyway after reading what you have written and how you have written (phrased) it.

laid off - sm

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If you got laid off collect UE and even get some assistance in retraining in something.

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