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for the company hiring new grads?  I would be highly suspicious since they didn't give the name of the company.  It may be a legit company, but.....

I have tried several times but will not post, some type of error. 

This is who we're losing our jobs to?!?!

Anyone have any info on billing and coding that would help me choose a school or program, also if there is opportunity to work from home?

A doctor may say the patient has hypertension as a diagnosis, but the reality is there are a bunch of different codes for hypertension.  There is no such thing in coding as plain old hypertension.

Same with certain procedures.  There is a code for this procedure and a code for that procedure.  BUT if you do this procedure WITH that procedure, then there is a whole nother code for that.

In order to have coding fully automated you would have to have software that could scan a patient's eletronic medical record record and then decide which diagnosis of hypertension best meets this patient's history and then assign the correct code.  Plus with the enormous fines for medicare fraud and upcoding, no hospital is going to trust a computer to coding.  Coders will probably end up editing codes same as we edit transcription from VR.  Our jobs don't just disappear, they evolve.

Why does anyone still work there?

I don't get it.

I need opinions please...I work on a very small account with just a handful of ladies.  Because of the nature of the software (trying not to get too specific here) we can see who is working online and what reports they are working on in real-time...

We have one cherrypicker on the account.  Instead of using FIFO method, she retrieves the reports by author ID - usually picking the better dictators of course.  She knows I busted her and she did admit to it in on our work e-mail (not too bright) which I am saving just in case she gets out of hand - so far I'm still able to make money since really most of the dictators aren't bad. 

But every night it's starting to wear on me since she's screwing up turnaround time.  I don't really want to cause a big uproar being that it is such a small account and I need to work with her almost every night usually one on one.

What would you all do?  I want to handle this as delicate and professional as possible because we can't really afford to lose anyone on this account.  In other words, I refuse to stoop to her level by cherrypicking right back.

My boss has asked me several times why so-and-so does so much more than I do...I just bite my lip at that point but one of these days I think I might explode and just open up a can of worms....