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Obamacare does not result in job cuts!

Early last week, as I put the finishing touches on my report, “Obamacare: Outsourcing opportunities in revenue cycle management”, a social media group member put out a request for recommendations on medical coding certification programs’.  On checking out, the member came highly recommended and worked in the US healthcare industry for several years, but had been recently laid off. The post echoes the sentiment among experienced healthcare professionals who have either lost their jobs (due to medical technology) or are looking to move into the highly lucrative coding and billing industry.

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2010 is dead. Long live outsourcing

The decade from hell. That’s what TIME magazine called it in 2009- what with terror attacks, two terms of GW Bush, the great big downfall of Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac and subsequent real estate fiasco– it’s no wonder that Americans are really tired.  Well, that and no more MJ!The first decade of the 21st century is over. So how did outsourcing fare ?

Since so much of what we do consists of looking at trends, here are some of the top of the hat trends that breezed around and then hung like a fog over the decade.

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