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The Healthcare Workforce: Getting a Good Job!
The KEYS to having a good job and progressive career.
Madeline Angela Meyer, PhD,
MSHA, MBA, CMPE, CCS-P, CPC, CCS,
AHIMA ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer
Strategic Career Planning!
I’m a
Trained Certified Medical Coder and Ready for the Next Step in my Career. What do I do? Click and Do your Career Strategic Plan.
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
― Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry
You are
a CPC, or CCS-P:
Outpatient Coder -
An outpatient coder performs medical coding in a variety of outpatient health
care settings. These include emergency rooms, hospitals, ambulatory surgery
centers, physician offices, and clinics.
Consider
your next step as:
Inpatient Coder -
An inpatient coder is holds an AHIMA CCS and is responsible for accurate
assignment of diagnosis related groups (DRGs), diagnostic and procedural codes
using ICD-9-CM for inpatient health information records.
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AHIMA, CCS: www.ahima.com
You are
already a CCS, consider:
Traveling Coder -
This type of coder generally works for a company that has contracts with
several health care organizations and travels from facility to facility
performing medical coding.
You are
an experienced and a disciplined CPC, CPC-H, CCS-P, CCS, consider:
At-Home Coder -
An at-home coder completes the coding process from home using electronically
transmitted records.
You’re a
super medical documentation interpreter and coder, consider:
Coding Auditor -
A coding auditor performs DRG optimization audits on inpatient and outpatient
records and reviews the results of audits with coding staff and coding
management to resolve noncompliance and inaccuracy issues.
· Outpatient:
AAPC’s Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CPMA®): http://www.aapc.com/certification/cpma.aspx
· Inpatient/Outpatient: American Association of Medical Audit
Specialists (AAMAS), Certified Medical Audit Specialist (CMAS)®: http://www.aamas.org/certification/becoming-cmas.html
Consultant -
The responsibility of a consultant is to assist clients and provide support for
creation, maintenance and ongoing operation of an efficient and accurate system
of reimbursement and documentation. A consultant also reviews billing protocols
and procedures to assure compliance will all regulatory and governmental
requirements.
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Professional, subject matter expert
(SME) with good written and verbal communication skills and excellence in
customer service.
Healthcare
Regulations intrigues you! Consider:
Privacy Officer -
A privacy officer oversees all ongoing activities related to the development
of, implementation of, maintenance of, and adherence to the organization’s
policies and procedures covering the privacy of, and access to, patient health
information in compliance with federal and state laws and the healthcare
organization’s information privacy practices.
· AAPC’s
Certified Professional Compliance Officer - CPCO™: http://www.aapc.com/certification/cpco.aspx
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American Institute of Healthcare
Compliance, Inc., Medical Compliance Officer Certification (CMCO) - www.aihc-assn.org
Do you
like to teach others what you know?
Consider:
Medical Coding
Instructor - A medical coding instructor educates
students about diagnostic and procedural coding. The training of medical coders
can be provided by an instructor in a classroom setting or an online setting.
This can include the training of new coders, as well as providing continuing
education opportunities for current coders.
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Requires one degree higher than those
you are teaching, e.g., in the classroom you need an AS to teach Diploma (9
months), or BS to teach AS, or Masters or Terminal degree (PhD/Ed) to teach BS,
MS. Online teaching generally requires a
minimum of a Master’s degree.
Do you
like to facilitate teamwork, teach, delegate and have oversight of workflow?
Consider:
Coding Supervisor -
A coding supervisor provides support for and works to plan, review, and
implement the policies and processes surrounding the coding and abstracting functions
and maintains responsibilities for all coding functions, including appropriate
staff productivity and development, implementation and monitoring of the coding
compliance plan.
Are you
a professional, multi-tasking, take charge leader with a strong business focus
and thick skin? Consider:
Practice Manager – responsible for medical office
business processes, workflow, corporate compliance, quality in health services
and customer services, oversees or performs medical office accounting, monitors
physician reimbursement, managed care contracting, oversee the revenue cycle management, human resource
management, marketing activities, business relationships, HIPAA and data
security, and health information technologies (practice management systems),
electronic medical record, and health information exchange.
Certified
Physician Practice Manager (CPPM™) http://www.aapc.com/certification/practice-manager-certification.aspx
You have
a passion for HIMs? Consider:
Health Information
Manager - A health information manager is responsible for
the management of all aspects of the
health information department, including revenue cycle management, coding, transcription, utilization
review, and chart review
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Requires
both a Degree from an AHIMA/CAHIIM approved school and an AHIMA Certification
as an RHIT (Associate in Science level and Registered Health Information
Technologists), or an RHIA (Bachelors Level, and Registered Health Information
Administrator).
Are you
a numbers person; love to do research, analyze the codes, utilization, indices,
do reports with executive summaries, work well under timelines? Consider:
Medical Financial/Strategic Analyst- Responsible for interpreting,
analyzing and delivering complex medical reports within the prescribed
turnaround time. The nature of the work performed is repetitive or patterned,
requiring extensive depth of experience. Jobs include the medical analyst
responsible for daily productivity reports, budget reports, charge master
maintenance and reports, inpatient and outpatient coordinators, quality
assurance analysts and more.
Also, what about:
Inpatient Perspective Payment System (IPPS) MS-DRG Coordinator?
Outpatient Perspective Payment System (OPPS) APC Coordinator?
Hospital Charge Description Master (CDM) Coordinator?
“If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.” ― Yogi Berra
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