Vantaggi
Contract work. Can pick your own hours.
Svantaggi
Pay per chart with an extremely low rate per chart. The scale is based on 0-2 days, 3-5, 6-10 and >10 days. This makes it very hard to really make a decent amount of money compared to being paid for your hourly work. The LOS does not impact the difficulty of the chart. you may get a 2 day stay where multiple procedures were done with many diagnoses that takes a long time to complete or a 15 day stay where no procedures were done. There should be a way to limit the type of charts that fall into each time frame and pay more based on the difficulty of the chart. This just is not comparable to the type of pay you can get working as an hourly employee. Also there is no real management. No one to give suggestions to or to care how the companies that you are contracted with treat you.