A.H.I.M.A(American Health Information Management Association Rips-off members

This is a comment I left on their site www.ahima.org(American Health Information Management Association).If it did’nt post my blog here is where you can see it.I spoke up for some coders that have complained privately on their business practices.

I’m appalled by your organizations insensitiveness towards your Medical-coder members.Not informing them that you were no longer mailing out Renewal-cards.You chose to go paperless and have them update their status online.The Identity-theft incurred by members and consumers alike is compromised through updating their personal information online to secured sites.Hackers still obtain it through loopholes in the sites or the manufactured ones they create in the firewalls.Thus your company should understand members apprehension.

Then there’s the Members-recognition issue.In recent years coding-members were acknowledge in the association’s journal for their crowning-achievement in passing their exams to acquire certification for their specialty in the medical-industry.Now that’s gone and it’s only accessible online for local chapters.

Did those factors occur to you? with the high fees your members already pay,along with the $300 plus for their study book/materials.That most would perfer the paper-renewals by mail.It’s the least you can do to offset those cost.But your company’s bottom-line is money and status to rank amoung medical criteria’s elite.

You’d rather do that and foresake the very people medical-coders whose money put you where you are.You’ll say it’s not that,when it is..It’s just the American-way.This is for the coders,I know that purchase your books.

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