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HR launches Employee Referral Program

Medical Center employees recently received postcards at home inviting them to supplement their income to the tune of $3,000. To collect this bonus, employees need only refer someone to the Medical Center who is hired for one of several hard-to-fill jobs.

They include:
• Hospital EEG/END technicians
• Medical Coders (clinical data assistants)
• Registered Nurses
• Radiation Therapy Technologists

A nationwide shortage of nurses and hospital technicians has been highly publicized, but less well known is the growing competition for medical coders—the technicians who code tests, diagnoses, and drugs for billing purposes—that has resulted from recent changes in healthcare regulations. Studies indicate that coders are fleeing the field, or choosing not to enter it, for numerous reasons, including increasingly complex revisions required by changing government regulations, greater workloads, and the lack of comprehensive job training. Such a shortage often leads to a serious backlog in a hospital’s billing system, preventing hospitals from collecting millions of dollars in revenues.

“We have always greatly valued employee referrals as an effective way of recruiting top-notch candidates,” says William Kelley, Assistant Director of Recruitment and Staffing. “But faced with such urgent shortages in these areas, we’re now offering employees an additional incentive to help us draw upon a larger pool of qualified applicants.”

The Employee Referral Program is open to employees of both the School of Medicine and NYU Hospitals Center. For complete information about how make a referral under this program, call William Kelley at (212) 404-3846; for nursing referrals, call Kathleen Ames, Director of Nurse Recruitment, (212) 263-6658; or visit Human Resources on the intranet at http://nyumc.net/nyu/human_resources/recruitment/employee_referral/index.html