Georgia is a working girl

The week of February 14th was eventful for our household. Not only did Randy have his trip to the ER, but Georgia had some events as well.


First some background. When Georgia moved away from Oregon, our hardworking gal had many, many hours of pay from vacation and other types of leave that were owed her by her previous employer. So, for a number of months Georgia was gainfully unemployed as she received paycheck for doing little to no work. All of that ended in the second half of January, when she received her last paycheck. At that point she was just unemployed.

The week of February 14th Georgia saw an ad that was posted on Craigslist in early February for medical record reviews. Georgia thought it was something she could do, and sent off a resume. She was contacted within a couple of days, and was hired after a short telephone interview (she can see lightening and hear thunder). A training session was scheduled for the last Monday in February.

The company that employs Georgia has a contract with an Arizona insurance company to review patient files at doctor offices to verify that everything is being documented correctly. In the medical field the adage states “If it wasn’t documented, it wasn’t done”. Basically, if you didn’t write down what you did, you can’t be sure you did everything you should be doing.

During the next two weeks Georgia made a number of calls to arrange site visits at the doctor offices. Naturally the visits came next. From the visits made so far, most offices are documenting everything within tolerances. However, there have been exceptions. So it seems that it is a good thing to have an outside party review charts from time to time.

At this point she has just about finished the backlog that had accumulated since the position had become vacant. She is not sure how many of these visits will happen each month, but it is fairly easy money, and it gets her out of the house.

Later in the same week of February 14th Georgia’s boss at her old job contacted her with a proposition. They had a contract coming up with a company that had a significant Spanish speaking population. It involved telephonic health coaching. Was Georgia interested? Since there would be no traveling, our nurse said she would be very interested in adding that to her contract with them. (The contract involves passing on the information she accumulated over 7+ years at that company.)

There was a bit of training to go through with this employer, since databases had changed a bit since Georgia was in the office last. She was sent a list of people to contact. Since it was unknown if these high-priority people speak Spanish or English they were assigned to Georgia. She will start the outbound calls the middle of March. Her previous employer may have other contracts in the works like this, so we shall see.

All in all, it looks like Georgia will be able to keep busy and bring home a little extra cash as well.