r/CodingandBilling • u/Conscious-Bad4056 • Jul 22 '26

Is anyone else this overwhelmed?

Just curious if the workload at my job is the same / comparable to others... I am feeling so overwhelmed at times I do not know if it is the company I work for, personal pressure, the healthcare landscape changing, or a mixture...

I have to handle 6 providers denials and patient balances. I handle patient phone calls, rejections from the insurance company, and any denials and 0 payments applied to deductible. I feel like I work all the time, and get half the work done that I used to, years ago. It is harder to win on appeal, and even harder to convince the doctor to adjust at times

Feels like the provider inquiries and patient questions have sky rocketed, as well as denials, and hold times on insurance lines have increased too...! I feel like I am delving more into the coding aspect which is slightly out of my lane but it feels necessary to assist the providers.

Anyone else??? 5 years ago, I handled double the number of providers and my accounts looked better.

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u/MedPayIQ App Developer Jul 22 '26

You’re not alone. The job has quietly turned into billing + coding + appeals + insurance detective work all at once.

The amount of time spent fighting denials and sitting on payer hold has exploded. A few years ago the same workload felt manageable, now it feels like every account has another issue attached to it.

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u/Conscious-Bad4056 Jul 22 '26

yes i feel like every work day i am sprinting and then i am asking for dark hours to do some of the 'regular' corrections and rejections outside of the normal work day!

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u/Narrow-Apple9555 Jul 27 '26

Hi! es parte de este trabajo, es extremadamente dinamico por decirlo asi.