Remote HCC Risk Adjustment Coder/Clinical Reader - Remote HCC Risk Adjustment Coder/Auditor Altegra Health Employee Review

1.0
2 Aug 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Every coder is assigned a Clinical Care Advocate who is your point of contact throughout your project. My Clinical Care Advocate is absolutely wonderful, very helpful and always replies to my emails promptly. The best feature of Altegra Health is the flexibility. As long as you do a minimum of 20 hours per week, they don't care what time and days you work and you don't have to submit a schedule. You just logon and pull the next chart.

Cons

The pay is absolutely TERRIBLE!!!!!. The pay per chart...$6.00, but what you don't know is that the chart can be 50 pages long and consist of 12 dates of service for a 12 month period. So you are coding 12 individual visits but only getting paid $6.00 for the chart. Horrible, I made more when I was 14 working at a car wash

Explore other reviews about Altegra Health

5.0
19 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

management, technology, benefits, salary, hours

Cons

frequency of chart allocation can be challenging during some months

2.0
28 Jun 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

When the work is there is a good place to get your feet wet as a coder. The salary is low while you are slow but once you get your speed up it is ok.

Cons

Pay is extremely low unless you are very fast and if you are fast enough to make good pay you won't make your 95% accuracy. The worst thing is you will be working your tail off and then suddenly there will be no work. I am a current remote coder, at least as far as being able to log on to the systems, but I haven't worked in over 2 months with no explanation from management and no communication about expected work in the future. In fact the so-called advocate I was assigned won't even respond to me. It is not fair that you are laid off and they don't even tell you. They just don't give you any work. A few of the coders with the highest QA scores are getting a little bit of work but most of us get none. Very poor communication and very poor consistency. They won't even tell you if you need to look for another job. Poor ongoing training.

4
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All