2,000 employees set to become AAPC certified coders by end of 2016
Bangalore, 08th June 2015: Omega Healthcare, a leading offshore provider of healthcare outsourcing services, recently announced an alliance with AAPC with an aim to upgrade more than 2,000 employees as AAPC certified coders, on top of the 500 already certified coders in the organisation. This will continue to be a company-sponsored certification and at no cost to the employees.
AAPC is USA’s largest medical coding training and certification association for medical coders and medical coding jobs. Founded in 1988 in the United States, the Association was set-up to provide education and professional certification to medical coders and to elevate the standards of medical coding by providing student training, certification with ongoing education, networking and job opportunities.
There is growing evidence that implementation of ICD-10 is the next big step that will change the healthcare sector in the United States and the outsourcing industry,creating a huge demand for certified medical coders in the U.S., Middle East and India. This market segment is growing at 17% CAGR in the US (Source: Kaulkin Ginsberg Report).
“Medical coding offers huge growth potential due to healthcare reforms in the US creating the need for more processing jobs. The conversion of ICD-9 to ICD-10 coding system to be implemented this year has provided great impetus to the healthcare outsourcing industry. At Omega, we are gearing up to meet the demand by training and offering AAPC certification for our coders. This deal with the AAPC is unprecedented in the history of industry and sets Omega far apart from its competitors” said Gopi Natarajan, Co-Founder & CEO of Omega Healthcare.
He further added, “Our medical coding team is the largest in the country and we have always focused on providing a better experience to our employees and this alliance with AAPC will allow the employees to become certified coders before and also just after the conversion to ICD-10 is planned, providing them an edge over the others in the industry”.
Omega Healthcare believes in good HR practices and provides a continuous learning environment for its employees to enhance their skills. As a part of this organisational philosophy, employees are given opportunities to upgrade their skills on a regular basis. In addition, they can choose from core certifications likeCPC, COC, CIC, etc., along with 20 other speciality certifications. This training course will consist of approximately 100 – 150 hours of training, and includes 3 mock assessments.
The organisation is expected to have more than 2,500 AAPC certified coders by the end 2016, thus able to provide optimal service-levels to the US healthcare industry. CCI Newswire
