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ICD-10 Coders (CCS Required)

ICD-10 Coders (CCS Required)

by Linda Andrews -
Number of replies: 1

I'm not sure that we have any coding graduates ready to go to work (CCS required), but if we do, there are a number of jobs for ICD-10 coders with a CCS. They have just realized that they aren't ready for ICD-10. There are quite a few of these jobs. I hope we can fill a few of them. Let me know if you are interested.  I'm posting this here because of the urgency of their request and the fact that we specifically have been contacted about it. If you do apply for one of the jobs you learn about on our forum, please don't share this information outside this forum. Some employers just tell us about jobs because they only want Andrews graduates.  In this case I only heard about it through the grapevine from people who know things.  :)   They didn't actually come to us with an official job announcement.

 

Re: ICD-10 Coders (CCS Required) in SE part of the country

by Linda Andrews -

I strongly suspect that many other facilities across the nation are going to wake up some day soon to find out that they had thought they were prepared for ICD-10 and aren't.  In one case I heard of recently, the current coders were, as has been happening across the country, being given time off of their regular ICD-9 duties to learn ICD-10. They have been taking that time off, but haven't been learning ICD-10.  They are still totally unprepared.

These are very large healthcare systems that I've been hearing about, but smaller facilities are no doubt going to go through the same thing. It's just a matter of time. Hopefully all of YOU current medical coding students and new graduates will be ready to jump in there and do the job, with your new credentials polished and ready to go.