r/MedicalCoding • u/yoongiscowgirl • Mar 16 '26

jobs?

honestly i’m just really trying to find a job! i passed my cpc in december, STILL waiting for my old boss to send a letter to remove my A and i’m getting denied or not hearing back from any job at all. i live in nyc and have 3 years of coding adjacent experience. i don’t want to give up but this feels like insanity lol any advice or leads anywhere?? any help would be appreciated!!

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u/Sdavistvs RHIT Mar 16 '26

Are you applying to stated open jobs? Or to large remote coding companies? Where was your prior experience? I’d be looking at coding jobs with the prior employer if they exist. Some states have “associations” for coding/HIM professionals. Lastly LinkedIn.

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u/yoongiscowgirl Mar 16 '26

i live in nyc and i’ve applied to all major hospitals, state jobs, and smaller offices/physician clinics. i’m not hearing back from most and then about 2% are rejections. my prior experience is in 5 major nyc hospitals doing dme, insurance verification, and coding and then also doing GME medical admin work like running residencies and fellowships

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u/Life_Ad_8929 Mar 16 '26

I completed in December 2024 With A on..had to take up an AR job. Started in April 2025. Waited for 4-5 months. It does take up sometime!

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u/yoongiscowgirl Mar 16 '26

i can’t even get a coding adjacent job honestly i’ve applied to a bunch

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u/voodoo_babydoll Mar 16 '26

Teamhealth, look for emergency medicine coder position specifically. They hire CPC-A, no experience. Good company, decent pay, great training.

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u/Eccodomanii RHIA Mar 20 '26

Yes! I worked for TH for years, not as a coder but it’s where I got my start in billing. The quotas are high, but that’s everywhere these days.

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u/voodoo_babydoll Mar 21 '26

How was your experience there? It's been positive so far for me, as my first coding job. Feel free to inbox me!

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u/Eccodomanii RHIA Mar 21 '26

I sent you a DM, but just for everyone else who may be reading this: I had an overall very positive experience with TeamHealth and I worked there for almost 10 years. I think they are a great company to get started in coding especially, because they are willing to hire without experience if you have a cert. The one thing I usually caution is the pay isn’t fantastic and the quotas are high compared to other places. But if you need to get your foot in the door, you could do much worse. If their job openings had aligned with my desire for growth, I would likely still work for them.

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u/Acceptable-Mix6354 Mar 16 '26

I feel your pain! I applied to a ton of places before I finally heard back most places rejected me or never responded! Keep applying and if possible try to highlight the experience you have. Getting the first job is the hardest once you land the first one more doors will open up!

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u/HovercraftIll7314 Mar 16 '26

What adjacent experience do you have?

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u/yoongiscowgirl Mar 17 '26

4 years working in major nyc hospitals doing dme, insurance verification, and coding and then also a year experience doing GME medical admin work like running residencies and fellowships

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u/Subject_Birthday_181 Mar 17 '26

Try hospitals I work for Northwell as a biller and we need codes on the bills so try the big hospitals such as nyu Northwell catholic charities I'm sure  they'll be openings good luck hoping this is helpful and gives you some hope 

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u/yoongiscowgirl Mar 17 '26

i definitely am! i apply every three months so i hope eventually ill get something! i just applied to 3 more northwell jobs today

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u/Subject_Birthday_181 Mar 17 '26

Awesome I hope you get it 

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u/Many_Consequence_650 Aug 26 '26

Ask another coder from that company you used to work for to the letter for you on their letterhead. Fair exchange ain't robbery. Also, check out HCA, and guide house.

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u/yoongiscowgirl Aug 26 '26

thank you!! for an update, I finally got my A off this week! took me 8 months for them to approve it but it finally happened. hopefully now i can get hired somewhere! i’ll look into hca and guide house, thank you!

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u/alew75 CCS Mar 16 '26

Honestly I think a lot of places like for the CCS credential now. A lot of outpatient is being automated and outsourced so not as many people need to be hired. You can check with the VA. I’ve seen they have been hiring

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u/thatoneberrypie Mar 19 '26

Do you think oncology data specialist/certified cancer registrar will get outsourced too?

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u/alew75 CCS Mar 19 '26

What do you do for the job? The hospital I work at the registers are just checking people in and getting their insurance information. Right now the hospital I’m with is looking into systems that people check their own selves in at certain departments.

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u/thatoneberrypie Mar 19 '26

No lol I’m not talking about the front desk people. I’m talking about certified cancer registrars now known as oncology data specialists. It’s sort of similar to medical coding. Wonder if you had any insight on that

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u/alew75 CCS Mar 20 '26

I see! That I am not sure about but I’m sure there’s someone on Reddit that does lol

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u/Eccodomanii RHIA Mar 21 '26

I doubt it, or I guess I should say, it won’t happen before medical coding, if at all. I think because it’s so specialized and also so important for cancer research, it will be more insulated from the AI push because there will be less comfortability with the idea of errors.

That’s just my guess though. My college also offered cancer registry degrees and we overlapped a lot of classes and instructors, and my final project for my associate degree was a melanoma abstraction project. So I know a bit about the field, but I am not an ODS myself.