Medical Coding Job Opportunities Figure In Working Mothers 100 Best

The other day, while waiting at the pediatrician's office with my kid, I chanced upon Working Mother Magazine's list of the 100 best large companies to work for. And the good news for medical coding and billing professionals is that at least 17 of the 100 companies listed are health systems or health plans that hire folks like us. This numbers almost 20 percent.

How does the magazine choose its ‘Best 100?' It judges how well the company's benefits help its employees achieve ‘work-life' balance, something appealing to anyone with a family and/or a life outside of work. For instance, they consider the employer's telecommunicating opportunities, flex-time options and child care benefits.

Ways to find job openings in the medical coding and billing world: If you see an employer in the list below that's based near you, search its corporate web site and go to the ‘employment' page. You can search positions by keyword as because the companies are large. For instance, I found 9 open positions listed right now at Baptist Health in South Florida with the keyword ‘coder'. Do not forget to multiple keywords to describe what you are such as ‘coding', ‘biller', ‘informatics', etc. In case you don't see an opening, most sites allow you to submit a resume if something comes up.

Here are a list of health care systems and plans on Working Mother's list, a sample benefit they have, where they're based, and a link to the magazine's write up about them.

• Baptist Health South Florida which offers $64, 000 college scholarships to children of employees.
• Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina, which is based in Durham with offices around the state. It offers telecommuting, job-sharing and compressed work weeks.
• Bon Secours Richmond Health System, (Virginia). Here if a spouse of an employee loses his or her job, the health system offers free career counseling.
• Children's Healthcare of Altanta which offers free onsite training with dieticians and personal fitness coaches.
• Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago which offers twenty days of free backup childcare per year - great for those teacher workdays and snow days.
• HCA Virginia Health System: Here ‘Daddy Boot Camp' which pairs rookie dads with mentors who are veteran dads.
• Mercy Health System, based in Janesville, WI offers free health screenings and discounted school physicals and flu shots to its staff and their families.
• At Northwestern Memorial Healthcare in Chicago, almost 50 percent of employees compress their workweeks.
• Pitt County Memorial Health System in Greenville, NC, in order to respond to the emotional stresses this recession has created has expanded its free counseling program for employees and their children.
• Scripps Health based in Southern California offers six free chairs massages a year.
• TriHealth in Cincinnati will help you arrange for in-home child care if your kid has a sick day.

Erin Lang Masercola, PhD, CPC, has been writing about health care law, reimbursement, compliance and HIT for ten years. Most recently, she's been collaborating with medical coders and software engineers to create an amazing new online coding reference tool called Supercoder.com. She is a certified professional medical coder through AAPC.

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