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WHOO HOO!  Doing the Snoopy dog happy dance here....:) 

 

Thank you for all the support and encouragement.  I will be going for my CPT and my CCS.  Don't know why I didn't pass the first time around, but I'm not giving up.  Looking forward to the ICD 10 class.  Thank you again! 

 

I am delighted to be done and would like to eventually land a remote coding position in the future.  I have learned so much with Andrews, however know there is always so much more to do to keep abreast of the profession. I was so undecided about beginning this journey, but am glad I did as I found out that I enjoy the process of coding.  I know I should attempt my CCS as soon as possible.  In May, while searching for coding positions, I was hired as an MT for a large hospital system, remote,  and am actually being paid very well with excellent bennies.. However, we were all told it would be to our best interest to look into other avenues since VR will be implemented this year.  It is great to know I now have additional skills.

 

Congratulations, Debbie!

Congratulations, Christy!

Congratulations, Donna!

Be sure to let me know if you have any questions as you prepare for the certification exams.

Congratulations Debbie, Christy and Donna!

Hi Donna - I am also an MT and decided to take the coding course because all of the MT jobs are disappearing. I currently work for a hospital,but we are all losing our jobs in a few months due to being taken over by a service. If you don't mind, could you let me know what hospital you work for remotely, and are you employed by the actual hospital, and do you still have to live within driving distance to it? 

Thanks so much

Just a tidbit on VR. As you probably know it is FAR from adequate and my sweetie (Andrews grad) did MT but now calls this VR editing. VR does it's thing and companies need to have that product massaged into an acceptable product. She too is thinking about coding for the future, but some aspects of MT will still be necessary until VR is fool-proof, which is going to be quite a while.

Amanda, I have worked for several hospitals as an employee in the course of my career as an MT, as well as all the big MTSOs.  All the services pay piddly, sweatshop line rates.  It is to the point that I went from being proud to be an MT (in the gravy years) to being downright embarrassed to say I am an MT!   Now, I am fortunate to work for the BJC health system as an employee with all the perks.  I live 50 minutes from the hospital and drive in about 6 times yearly to attend departmental meetings.  So, yes, we have to live close enough to be able to attend mandatory meetings.  But, as I said earlier, changes are a coming...

Richard, VR merely aids in the sweatshop mentality that is so pervasive in corporate greed. I have done my share of VR editing, training VR to do my job... its an unnerving feeling. 

But as you'll know, VR will never replace people to edit the results, unless the corporate greed trumps quality, which it well may. We can't train VR to be human, although we can seen human programmers try to adjust the abilities of the program to account for various issues such as English-as-a-second-language doctors, chewing on lunch (or dinner) and yawning. I just saw today a report that engineers reported 1,000's of cracked components being installed on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and when the engineers raised the flag to the Caltrans, non-engineers told the contractor to continue regardless. Non-engineers trumping the professionals for PR reasons or greed. Disregard for human safety by the non-professionals. Best we can do is face into that wind and stand our ground.