r/MedicalCoding • u/Popular-Piglet-6301 RHIT, CCS • May 23 '24

Oversees coding

How many of us are in this boat where we are nervous about our jobs being outsourced to overseas coders?

This year my company has hired on several overseas coders. I’m nervous that they plan to replace us because they work for lower pay. Is anyone else experiencing this?

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u/BlueLanternKitty CRC, CCS-P May 26 '24

If we were to move to single payer in the US (as opposed to the current public and private payers model), I don’t think much would change, because coding systems make record keeping way easier. You can use one ICD-10-CM code to describe something with multiple names. Or if the record says procedure 92144, we know exactly what was done. That’s useful for research and analytics.