nguernsey
Networker
I received word today that my temp job would go full-time.
Let's back up a bit. I obtained my CPC in 2009 while working at another insurance company doing Medicare Part B Appeals. I found out in 2010 that I would be laid off. In 2011 after my layoff, I found a job at a start up company that ended up being a disaster. Six months later in 2012, I was on unemployment for 3 months, took a temp assignment at my current company which is also a large health insurance company doing ICD-10-CM crosswalk, translations...Seven months later the assignment ended. Four more months of unemployment followed. I took my current assignment reviewing adjudicated claims for coding error back in June 2013. During all this, I was applying like crazy and interviewed over 30 times at several companies, went into a fiancial disaster with COBRA for my ill husband.
I knew in the back of mind that my passion was coding or anything associated with it such as claims even if it meant taking temporary assignments, over and over again. 18 months of underemployment and there is light at the end of the tunnel. I've had my cert for over 4 years along with a BA. It's VERY tough but do not give up, ever. Keep pushing on. One day, maybe not today, tomorrow or next year....one day an opportunity will open up.
Let's back up a bit. I obtained my CPC in 2009 while working at another insurance company doing Medicare Part B Appeals. I found out in 2010 that I would be laid off. In 2011 after my layoff, I found a job at a start up company that ended up being a disaster. Six months later in 2012, I was on unemployment for 3 months, took a temp assignment at my current company which is also a large health insurance company doing ICD-10-CM crosswalk, translations...Seven months later the assignment ended. Four more months of unemployment followed. I took my current assignment reviewing adjudicated claims for coding error back in June 2013. During all this, I was applying like crazy and interviewed over 30 times at several companies, went into a fiancial disaster with COBRA for my ill husband.
I knew in the back of mind that my passion was coding or anything associated with it such as claims even if it meant taking temporary assignments, over and over again. 18 months of underemployment and there is light at the end of the tunnel. I've had my cert for over 4 years along with a BA. It's VERY tough but do not give up, ever. Keep pushing on. One day, maybe not today, tomorrow or next year....one day an opportunity will open up.