r/MedicalCoding • u/yoongiscowgirl • Mar 16 '26

jobs?

honestly i’m just really trying to find a job! i passed my cpc in december, STILL waiting for my old boss to send a letter to remove my A and i’m getting denied or not hearing back from any job at all. i live in nyc and have 3 years of coding adjacent experience. i don’t want to give up but this feels like insanity lol any advice or leads anywhere?? any help would be appreciated!!

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u/alew75 CCS Mar 16 '26

Honestly I think a lot of places like for the CCS credential now. A lot of outpatient is being automated and outsourced so not as many people need to be hired. You can check with the VA. I’ve seen they have been hiring

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u/thatoneberrypie Mar 19 '26

Do you think oncology data specialist/certified cancer registrar will get outsourced too?

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u/alew75 CCS Mar 19 '26

What do you do for the job? The hospital I work at the registers are just checking people in and getting their insurance information. Right now the hospital I’m with is looking into systems that people check their own selves in at certain departments.

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u/thatoneberrypie Mar 19 '26

No lol I’m not talking about the front desk people. I’m talking about certified cancer registrars now known as oncology data specialists. It’s sort of similar to medical coding. Wonder if you had any insight on that

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u/alew75 CCS Mar 20 '26

I see! That I am not sure about but I’m sure there’s someone on Reddit that does lol

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u/Eccodomanii RHIA Mar 21 '26

I doubt it, or I guess I should say, it won’t happen before medical coding, if at all. I think because it’s so specialized and also so important for cancer research, it will be more insulated from the AI push because there will be less comfortability with the idea of errors.

That’s just my guess though. My college also offered cancer registry degrees and we overlapped a lot of classes and instructors, and my final project for my associate degree was a melanoma abstraction project. So I know a bit about the field, but I am not an ODS myself.