BPOs attract doctors with fat salaries

New Delhi, May 18: After engineers and lawyers, now doctors are also gearing up to join the BPO brigade, with the outsourcing firms opening up alternative career options for medicos.

In a BPO firm, the job of a doctor can include medical billing, transcription and coding for the US hospitals.

Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession, which deals with converting voice-recorded reports as dictated by physicians into text.

However, some companies such as Patni also provide high-end knowledge process outsourcing where a doctor is required to study the reports of elderly patients and carry out risk assessment and prepare reports for health Insurance companies in the US.

At present, the firm has 10 doctors in its team which does insurance claim processing, claim and long-term care management.

Mr Nishikant Kadam, human resource head of medical BPO firm CBay, said: "We generally hire doctors for training our workforce. The doctors in our firm also work as quality analyst for our medical transcription work."

The doctors are also enjo-ying this corporate job which comes with fat pay-packet. "It takes three to four years for a fresh medical graduate to establish a successful medical practice. In this period, he can work in a BPO and earn good money," a doctor working with a BPO said.

"Salaries are lucrative co-mpared to regular medical job. A doctor with three-five years experience could earn about Rs 8 lakh to Rs 20 lakh per annum in KPO," said Patni senior V-P, Mr Sanjiv Kapur. (PTI)