Dear Sad Saga, CPC-A

Everywhere I turn, there’s another sad saga: I can’t find a job, no one will hire a CPC-A!

You just endured and passed a Certified Professional Coder Examination that consisted of 150 questions for a grueling 5 hours and 40 minutes. Do you not know your job skills? Let me guess, you’ve been applying or at least searching for a job title: Medical Coder or CPC-A.

Do you not know what components were in the training program or on the Certification Examination? Do you not remember anything about ICD-9-CM, CPT, or HCPCS Level II?

Let’s pretend or dream; you receive a call from a physician’s office from where you never sent a
resume and they hired you as a Medical Coder. So you code, code, and code on your first day. On your second day, you code, code, and code again. Where are all those codes going? You wake up and you remember something from training…..they go to the payers – that was one of those Compliance or Practice Management questions on the Certification Examination.

Most view medical coding training as a pathway or career advancement to the healthcare provider environment. This is a limited view of Medical Coding as a Job Title and not as a Job Skill.

You are not limited by Medical Coder Jobs in your local area. National employers are hiring a CPC-A for Medical Coding positions without experience. Yes, many of these jobs are remote or the national company has a location in your city. National employers are hiring candidates with ICD-9-CM, CPT, and HCPCS Level II job skills to process the claims or perform numerous other job functions. Use your true job skills ICD-9-CM, CPT, and HCPCS Level II; this is your talent. That is how you will get your two years of experience working with codes and receive the full CPC. By the end of a short two years, you will be a Certified Professional Coder (CPC) without the “A”. Then, you are on your way to career advancement beyond a Medical Coder and you may never code a medical record other than in the training program.

Explore further, and you will find opportunities abundant within the national healthcare industry; ranging from the physician office, hospital inpatient and outpatient, commercial healthcare, governmental healthcare payers, and a multitude of others.

Your other option is continue your sad saga: I can’t find a job as a Medical Coder! Continue this negative path and it will become your reality. Or take the valuable knowledge you have and complete your journey to a successful healthcare career.

MedAdvantage Resources can proudly say our CPC-A graduates don’t sing this sad saga. We make sure students understand that a Medical Coder is a Job Skill with unlimited potential for building a fantastic healthcare career. Join our students in exploring unlimited job opportunity searching for the key words, ICD-9-CM, CPT, or HCPCS Level II within the entire healthcare realm.

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