Omega Healthcare, which offers BPO services to the US healthcare sector, plans to hire 2,300 this year. The employee additions will include coders and graduates with a science background, including BSc, biotechnology and others.
They will take on medical coding, accounting, data and revenue cycle management for US-based healthcare companies.
Omega Healthcare CEO Gopi Natarajan told
“We have been growing at 30 per cent in the last few years and expect to grow at 39 per cent in the 2016 financial year. This recruitment is in line with our business visibility,” he said.
Omega Healthcare is a privately held company and hence does not disclose financial information. The company said the headcount additions will happen across its centres in Chennai, Tiruchi and Bengaluru.
The company also has a centre in Manila, which employs around 300 people, according to company executives. Omega and other companies such as Cognizant and Wipro have been taking up projects from the US government after the Obamacare initiative as well as from large healthcare insurance companies.
“US healthcare providers are still transitioning from ICD 9 to ICD 10,” said Natarajan. ICD (International Classification of Diseases) is a medical classification list of the WHO. It relies on coding systems that analyse the cause of death from a reported sequence of conditions and assigns a code to a particular health condition.
There are periodic revisions of the ICD system and the US is undergoing a transition from the ninth to the tenth version. “There are up to 80,000 codes in ICD 10,” said Natarajan.