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Not a clue !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Found this excellent resource for ops - sharing with all.

alliedschools.com

Has anyone tried either their medical billing or coding training courses??

Did you like it, would you recommend it?? I'm tired of working at a restaurant and would like to learn a career but I just want make sure that I am learning from a school that will actually lead me somewhere(specially that it cost 1600 dollars)

So please let me know what you think about them and if there is other schools that you will recomment over them!

Thanks

Okay, now that I have job offers, I have to figure out what to do.

Right now:  I am employed on site as an admin asst with great insurance, good pay, people I like, and job security.  The downside is missing my family--I only see them about four hours in the evenings and most of that is bathtime, cooking supper, you get the picture.  I also have quite a drive to work and parking is HORRIBLE.  I feel I work LONG weeks and then have little to show in the way of my emotional outlook and cash left over after buying gas, etc. 

What could be:  I have job offers to come back home and type full time.  I would be here to see my children and be close to their schools if something happened.  Also, my husband has built me a gorgeous office by closing in a porch, so there's a big three-paned picture window that overlooks my garden.  I can envision myself at home, but there's a tremendous amount of fear that's holding me back. I am AFRAID because I remember how long it took to get lines in every day.  I worry about the security of benefits, PTO, and just the job itself.  I don't want to be sitting in this office 7 days a week from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.  I hope I'm more capable than that, but sometimes it's not the MT, it's the conditions, and if I give up my other job... 

I guess I am just venting and worrying and wondering.  After a two-year break, can I come back home and be productive and accountable as an MT?  Can I count on the industry?    I really wanted to come home, but now I'm afraid.

TIA for any and all suggestions!

For those of you who transcribe SOAP notes, do you capitalize each word in the diagnosis?  I have seen it both ways, and I was not sure if there is a rule to this. 

DX:  Low Back Pain. 

DX:  Low back pain.

Thank you!

Or, at least I think it's funny. It's on my blog. Hope it makes someone laugh today.

http://thrivingandtranscribing.com/?p=61

Take care,

Diane

Can anyone tell me if the ShortHand Word Expander software is compatible with Vista?  Thanks!  Much appreciated!

I have always double spaced after a period at the end of a sentence.  I was reading my BOS, and it says that it is preferred to use a single space after periods, colons, etc.  I was not aware of this.  Was anyone else? 

Please help me with the wording of this letter that I am seriously considering sending to one of my offices:

Please inform Dr. XXX that in the future any dictations that are done in the swimming pool area, karate room, cafeteria or other public venues will not be transcribed by this service.  This decision has been made due to the fact that the dictation is difficult to hear and understand because of the amount of background noise.

Additionally, I believe this to be a breech of the confidentiality of patient records that are mandated by HIPAA and I do not agree to be a part of such violation.

Any future dictations that are submitted by this physician which have been done in the above-named situations will not be transcribed by this service and will be immediately discarded.

Thank you for your understanding in this matter.

Sincerely,

(end)

There is a new doctor in one of the practices with small children and she's one of those who is trying to be supermom. (That's a whole other issue.) I have transcribed for two other (male) doctors in this practice for over 15 years without anything like this. I have twice now asked the office manager to tell her about this situation and it improved for a short while but today I had 18 minutes of very loud swim practice in the background. Her solution appears to be talk louder and I've got one HUGE headache after listening to her. I don't understand why she has to be right there instead of even finding a quiet spot to do this while the kids are occupied but she apparently thinks they can't be out of her sight. (I know they're unsupervised, either; I can hear the coach shouting.) Among the reasons listed above, I really want to say that I think this is just flat out disrepectful of both patients and myself but I don't think it is wise to get that personal. I really don't want to lose this practice but I honestly am not willing to put up with this nonsense from her anymore, either.

Thanks in advance for any HELPFUL suggestions you might have. If you're not willing to help, that's fine, too, but please keep the mean stuff to yourself.

I went from hospital from MTSO and have had the toughest time getting my line count.  I am getting paid 65 charcter line including spaces, no headers and footers with the MTSO, same with the hospital.  We are using the same platform.  I even bought a new Expander program which helped but I am still not where I need to be.  I qualify for PT but not FT and I need benefits.  I can sit and work and do nothing else for hours and it seems that counter barely moves.  I am doing clinic transcription not acute care anymore.   With the hospital, I was getting 1200 to 1300 lines a day.  With this MTSO I do good to get 800 to 900, and on real good days I do 1000 but I really really have to sit there the whole 8 hours, eat at my desk during lunch.  I had been there 6 months and I am getting very discouraged.  I thought about trying another MTSO but afraid I will probably jump from frying pan into the fire as most of them have VR.  I am doing straight text, I have not experienced VR yet. 

Ok people, I need some serious motivation here. Went to try on swim suits yesterday and thoroughly disgusted! With the combination of menopause (won't even get into that whole #&@ ball of wax) and MT'ing the last 5 years, my body has just gone to pot. I have a few DVDs that I try to do once in awhile like the Buns series, etc. and have an older Denise Austin Pilates tape, but I had read somewhere that the Winsor Pilates was more effective because of her technique or sequence or something. Do you think it's worth the investment? I'm just so discouraged, it just makes me want to go get a big bowl of ice cream or chocolate or something. I'm not really fat, just flabby, have lost my muscle tone or something. I had lost a lot of weight due to a series of very stressful events in the past, some of which are ongoing, but have gained it back and just seems to be flab now with no muscle. I just want to tone up and wondered if anyone liked the Winsor series and saw benefits with regular use. Thanks for any help and encouragement!!

Employee status w/benefits

$13.50/hr with 0.05 cpl incentive fo anything above 1200 lpd and $2.00 shift differential (for 2nd shift which I will be working)

1000 lpd minimum productivity requirement

Work in the office first month for training and then home with hospital provided computer.

Dictaphone EXText Word Client transcription platform

Is this a decent offer?  I've worked at the same place in the office forever and haven't actually been out there  looking in several years.  I tried working for a national part time at one time because I wanted to be working from home, but couldn't see how someone could make a living on 0.08 cpl without working yourself into an early grave, so I gave up the part time job and kept the full time in office job.  Now I have a new boss who doesn't know her butt from a hole in the ground and I started looking around and came across this current job and before I jump ship, I want to make sure I'm getting a good deal.

The $13.50 seemed kind of low to me given my years of experience (13 years), but because I was at my other job for so long I maxed out pay wise.

Does anyone have any sources for info on overseas MT jobs?!  I have been Googling but haven't come up with a single MT position in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, or Costa Rica -- only Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Dubai.

Thanks.

transcribing for 15 years), but I'm confused about something.  I purchased an Infinity IN-USB-1foot pedal.  My question is this.  Some ads say a wav-player is required.  Is this the same thing?  I didn't get software with my foot pedal.  Also, some ads say it needs to be version 5.  This is the same foot pedal I used when I worked for a company recently with an internet-based platform.  I have DSL, Windows XP and Word 2002.  Can anyone help me understand the nomenclature here? - USB foot pedal - wav-player, etc.  I'm well over 50 and am not 100% "with the program" on the technical end of things, but I'm hanging in there. 

Thanks so much!

Im getting a new foot pedal, I need a heavy duty one cause this last one is about to give way.

So what is a great buy? Any recommendations?

Is it possible to copy the autocorrect in Word Perfect and put it into Word, on the same computer?  Really didn't want to write everything down and re-enter, so any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks, Debbie

accounts does your national have you on...just curious.

I started with one and now am up to three and they're trying to shove two more accounts on me for a total of five. Simply hate it...would love to have just one primary account again with just one back-up.

As soon as I pick up momentum on the account I'm on at the moment, I get switched over to help out on another.

And yes...I have complained to them already...just wondering if this is the norm nowadays.

I am trying to locate someone who is an MT.  Her name is Novella Smith.  I met you at the STOP Organization in Suffolk, Virginia.  I am interested in talking with you about some training.  Please contact via e-mail at ladyp85@hotmail.com.  Thank you.

Pam

If you get hired at MDI, how do you know which office you will be based out of?  Would you know before you got hired?  Are there bad offices at MDI?

Does anyone know if they have any physical therapy work?