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Coding jobs in Bangalore, India... - deja vu

Posted: Feb 16, 2014

Seriously...

About your doomsday announcement... - It is only deja vu to vous.

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You're late with your doomsday announcement. We have discussed it here before, roughly once a month, explaining the number of reasons that make the situation quite different than it was for MTs. Sorry you missed them.

You know, if you don't think coding and its related fields are what you would like to do, pretty much everyone here would agree on two things ... first, you shouldn't do it, and, second, you should find something to do that does not involve disparaging the choices of others.

Time will tell. - Chicken Little.

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A large line item in the budget makes for a lot of incentive to find a way to do it cheaper. Seems obvious to me.

In fact, was mentioned at my company in passing at a recent town hall meeting along with the "excuse" of there not being enough people in the US to do it all here.

Why would you believe that when you do not believe - anything else they say?

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Clearly, you missed something ... coding is not a dead-end job. CODING IS JUST ONE OF MANY CLOSELY RELATED JOBS.

Coders who get there through HIM programs easily move into other HIM and informatics positions. Coders who start just with coding also move into other HIM and informatics positions, with or without additional education. They do this easily.

That is one of the selling points of coding ... that it is a good stepping-stone job.

I hope so. - Just would hate to see it...

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go down for you all like it did for MTs.

Remember how smug all we MTs used to be - about our job security? heh, heh....

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It's kind of sad, but then again, it's also kind of funny.

Speak for yourself -- as an MT I was never smug - student

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But then again, I never thought anyone's misfortune was funny. I also never had enough time to troll boards that had nothing to do with me. It's funny . . . some of my best friends are MT's, and they are some of the most intelligent, funny and compassionate people I know. Too bad I don't see much of that here.

My facility is sure spending a lot of money to get s ready for ICD-10. - Student

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I would not think they would invest so much now, to outsource later. Coders don't cost money, they bring in money. A lot of money.

"There is none so blind as (s)he who will not see." - N/M

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Just sayin...

What job are you in now - to be talking like that?

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NM

What is your motive in posting this? - nm

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No message.

Deja vu - Why does it matter

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If you are not a coder, why does it matter to you? Do you get up every morning and surf the web for bad news?

Like I said originally... - deja vu

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this was stated by the CEO of our company in a town hall meeting about coding being outsourced due to a shortage of people in the U.S. to do the work. Sorry if you don't want to hear it.

I wonder if it's the same "shortage" of people - in the US that the MTSOs claimed - sm

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there was for MTs. That was their original "excuse" for offshoring. Then the schools cranked out tons of new MTs, many of which were unable to find jobs.

Could that be the course coding will take? I certainly hope not, but the way things have been going in medicine the last decade, stranger things have happened.

If the quality of coding from offshore companies . . . - student

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is as bad as the quality produced by offshore transcription companies, they will never put up with it. Hospitals seem willing to accept garbage transcription from offshore, (and it is ridiculous how bad it is), just because it is cheaper. However, coding affects their bottom line. Regardless, none of the coders seem that concerned about it, so if you aren't a coder, I wouldn't lose sleep over it.

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