Working here is like taking a hammer and hitting your face repeatedly with it.
Lots of promises are made to you about where the company is going, what it is currently doing, how research and development is making innovative strides, how much insurance coverage the devices have, how the managers will do everything they possibly can to help you, the resources you are given to run your territory are small and they are continually reduced the longer you have been in it and of course... how much money you can make.
The company had its hay day a long time ago. Times have changed and they have not changed with them. They did not follow-up correctly with Medicare years ago about a device code and have been in the shitter ever since. They price gauge insurance companies, have no contracts and don't put forth any effort to have the device in possibly published research studies -- which makes the most strides in the medical world.
You spend most of your days running around trying to get Rx's signed, getting Dr's to sign letters to the patients insurance companies to TRY to get the device covered, putting fires out because Dr's are mad the device is inconsistently covered for their patients and how they can't rely on your company to ever come through, putting fires out with physical therapists because they are also mad the device is never covered for their patients, communicating back and forth with the home office employees because of whatever they think is incorrect paperwork, if a patient is upset about a bill they had no idea about - you get the brunt of the call because you are the point of contact, if a patient does not continue with care to get range of motion measurements by their Dr or PT then the device is no longer approved or being paid for therefore you do not get paid then you have to take the device away then EVERYONE gets mad. The whole thing is a diarrhea stain.
They have shady business practices, they do not look to change with the changing medical atmosphere, only care about what insurance companies and workers compensation case managers will open their wallets the widest - which has lost them plenty of patients thus YOU lose money, will piss off insurance companies by fighting back and forth about payment even though the device is not on their plan, etc. The managers in the South are a pack of wolves that will only accept their own kind. If you aren't related, if you graduated from college or if you didn't live with them at some point, you won't get promoted and you will be treated like a virus. While one of their own is a life sucking vampire who is willing to break Medicare rules, the worst person at managing her own life, is always late to everything, demands magic tricks from you, will send others into your accounts to get to know everyone before they fire you, the list is an endless migraine.
It would have been a good stomping ground/entry into Ortho 10 years ago.
Run as fast as you can from this house of mirrors.
