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Pre-employment coding testing for CPCs-Is it really to assess your coding knowledge!
Hello Fellow AAPC coders,
This thread is to get coder’s candor on pre-employment testing, particularly ASC.
I would like to put forth the argument that pre-employment testing is to do anything but asses your coding aptitude and current knowledge. I believe corporate entities put forth coding test to hold down a coder’s wage. I am kind of sick of walking into interviews and rectifying horrible mishaps on employee entrance tests; Does anybody else have this problem. Most likely if the employer renders a test in the interview with mishaps it is most likely their reporting practice will be in complete chaos for a production coder, hence leaving a burdensome task for a simple task complicated by the company’s incompetence with coding.
I say this because every corporate entity I have applied to in the past tried to mark my code selection wrong through listing codes the way the reimbursement process is for their particular reporting practice: e.g. listing Sx integrals and omitting conditions that are clearly more robust. And I am sure as some of you have read from the Coding Edge magazine: Reimbursement should never drive correct coding-(Quote: Kevin Shields Journalist/writer for the AAPC coding edge magazine)
Isn’t it true the whole logic behind employer entry exams is to assess one’s knowledge on ethical correct coding; not coding the way the insurance companies incur upon services since that varies extraordinarily from geographical location-some don’t but most do.
Hello Fellow AAPC coders,
This thread is to get coder’s candor on pre-employment testing, particularly ASC.
I would like to put forth the argument that pre-employment testing is to do anything but asses your coding aptitude and current knowledge. I believe corporate entities put forth coding test to hold down a coder’s wage. I am kind of sick of walking into interviews and rectifying horrible mishaps on employee entrance tests; Does anybody else have this problem. Most likely if the employer renders a test in the interview with mishaps it is most likely their reporting practice will be in complete chaos for a production coder, hence leaving a burdensome task for a simple task complicated by the company’s incompetence with coding.
I say this because every corporate entity I have applied to in the past tried to mark my code selection wrong through listing codes the way the reimbursement process is for their particular reporting practice: e.g. listing Sx integrals and omitting conditions that are clearly more robust. And I am sure as some of you have read from the Coding Edge magazine: Reimbursement should never drive correct coding-(Quote: Kevin Shields Journalist/writer for the AAPC coding edge magazine)
Isn’t it true the whole logic behind employer entry exams is to assess one’s knowledge on ethical correct coding; not coding the way the insurance companies incur upon services since that varies extraordinarily from geographical location-some don’t but most do.
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