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Outsourcing coders - TGIF

Posted: May 24, 2013

With all of this outsourcing of MT/Editors, what does the future look like for medical coders? I have heard that Nuance has developed software to "assist" the coder. My concern is that it is going to REPLACE the coder. Any thoughts?

Outsourcing coding - Been there

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Many facilities use computer assisted coding, it is not meant to replace coders. Nuance is actually arriving rather late in the game. No one has a crystal ball and no one can predict the future.

oh please don't start this again - here we go

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where's the person who always hollers the sky is falling the sky is falling? Must be off today.

I think that if there's a way to outsource, or even - replace medical clerical workers of any - sm

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kind (up to and including coders), the medical industry will clamor for it. That is why Nuance and M*Modal will work tirelessly to find a way to do it.

I've so thoroughly had it with every aspect of the entire medical industry, and I'll do whatever it takes to get out.

Nowadays, medicine is all about the money. Patient care is merely an afterthought.

Coding is not considered clerical work - Believe what you will, though

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No health information fields are considered "clerical work," including coding.

The federal government classifies health information professionals, including coders, as ancillary healthcare professionals, the same as physical therapists, nutritionists, speech and language pathologists, audiologists, radiology and laboratory technologists, and nurses.

If you do not wish to be treated as a clerical worker, I suggest you stop seeking employment with employers who trivialize your skills and view you as some kind of disposable slave labor.

The power to remove yourself from your bad situation is available to you, but you seem to prefer choosing to gripe instead. If you spent as much time retraining as you do wasting time here trying to ruin everyone else's career plans, you would have had a new career by now.

Whatever. You're free to believe what YOU want, - too. I prefer to go with common sense.

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Almost all aspects of medicine, and its support jobs, are controlled by HMO's these days. And contrary to what they would like to have you believe, the HMO is NOT your friend. Or anyone else's, except for maybe AHDI, obscenely wealthy CEO's and upper hospital management. All aspects of medicine have become corrupt.

All about money - Been there

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Name one industry that is not "all about money." No one runs a business or corporation unless they are going to make a profit. After all, workers' salaries and benefits have to be paid and the lights need to be kept on. Every employer is going to look at ways to get the job done with the least number of people, health care is no exception.

Don't be concerned about outsourcing, worry about offshoring - sm

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lost my coding job recently as they decided to go with a company overseas. The hospital I worked for basically decided to "try out" a contract with a coding company overseas, yes India. So, I lost my job as well as several other coders. If it can save a buck, it will be sent overseas! Trust me! Now, after being a MT, a coder, now I'm broke and having to go back to school yet again. Now, I've decided to do something hands-on that can't be shipped out.

Outsourcing is what led to offshoring. No hospital - ever sent its work directly offshore. (sm)

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Originally, outsourcing to an MT service wasn't a bad thing, it's what hospitals and clinics did when their workload exceeded their MTs' ability to do it. But then someone got greedy. They decided to send ALL of the hospital's work out to the middleman. And then the middleman got greedy. Started lowering prices to encourage more hospitals to use them instead of housing an MT department. As more and more middlemen started doing this, pay for MTs began to drop precipitously. They started undercutting each other. When that wasn't enough, they started buying out each other. When digital dictation systems and the Internet made it possible to work anywhere in the world, offshoring became the next big money-maker for them. And the rest, of course, is just sordid history.

Offshoring and outsourcing ARE different things, but they're both tied so closely together that it's become such that you really can't have one without the other anymore.

May the entire MT and medical industry ROT!

this is a good post - nm

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nm

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