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hired for coding/billing/transcription, but told no coding - confused


Posted: Aug 13, 2013

Accepted a job, gave 2 weeks notice, and yesterday was my first day.  I was to be helping out transcription (1000 jobs behind), and then sitting with billing and training with coding as their coder will be out on maternity leave in December.  The office is adding another surgeon, and they are rapidly expanding.  So I gave a proper 2 weeks' notice to my former employer (2 hours on the road there and back, low salary - now less than half distance and $3 more an hour) and started my new job yesterday.  This is my second coding job BTW.

My supervisor sat me down and told me what I would be doing to help billing.  I told her that I was excited about cross-training in coding and helping out there and she dropped the bomb that she should have dropped in our interview.  I interviewed with her and the office manager (3 of us in the same room all at the same time).  She said well, Michelle has a baby, comes back to work right away, picks up her work, and just never misses work.  Ever.  She will not need any help.  You will not be doing any coding.

I was emphatic in both our correspondence and in the interview that coding had to be somewhere on my job title and that I had to be doing it in some capacity for when I pass the CPC and that A is taken off my credentials after the proper amount of time.

I now do not trust these people at all, have regretted my decision, and was very upset since yesterday morning.  So, I emailed the office manager and told him of my concerns and relayed what my supervisor told me, and hopefully, this will be discussed today at work.  I came in Saturday and worked for them 6.5 hours to train while the office was closed.  I still have not received any formal paperwork at all from anyone there.  They really were not even prepared for me.

Confused.  Just venting.

No coding - Also confused

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I hope you had permission to come in and train for 6.5 hours while the office was closed. I guess I am awfully old school, but I would never tell my new employer what I "had" to be doing and what "had" to be in my job title. Having the "A" removed from your credentials is not your employer's problem. This job sounds as if you would have been a back up coder and that your employer planned to use you in other areas anyway as a back up for Michelle, who may feel threatened about you trying to take her job. You're a new hire, and if I were in your spot I would not make a big deal of this, it doesn't look good to come in and start making demands, regardless of what they told you. It sounds as if transcription is going to keep you busy for a while anyway. What you do in regard to staying or leaving is up to you, perhaps after the managers meet you will get what you want. There may be a reason you did not receive any paperwork, maybe they decided you were not a good fit for them, something else for you to consider.

not like that - at all

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It's all great! Left hand had not discussed with right hand...always seems to be the case. I am a wonderful fit for the company. :) How else would I have entered the building, entered the office, signed onto the computer, and trained if I did not have permission to work on Saturday? Really, now you sound ridiculous.

Not like that? - Also confused

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If it is so wonderful, why were you griping about them, saying you did not trust them, how they weren't ready for you, etc.? If I were Michelle, I'd be watching my back.
Head honcho was on vacation - All IS great
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Nm
I am happy for you - Also confused
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However, I still don't understand why, after being at a new job for 2 days you felt the need to go public and say that you didn't trust your employer, how you thought you had made a mistake, felt the need to complain to someone higher on the food chain, blah, blah, blah. You got what you wanted, but it does not look good for new hires to be making waves this early. Your co-workers may now think that anytime you don't get your way you will complain to management, that is not the way to gain your co-workers respect.


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