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Where are all the H&Ps, consults and nice long op reports?? - Morgan

Posted: Jun 16, 2012

I've been doing this for decades as an IC but am new to working for a service. Who is getting all the long reports that you can just speed through and actually make a few cents?? All I get are jobs that take 5 minutes of busy work and a few second on the keyboard to type less than 2 minutes of dictation. What a waste. Are we being filtered these ______ jobs?

we would be good together.... - just me

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I can only transcribe very short ones due to injuries.... I envy you, as you make the money on the long ones while I spend all day naming files and not much typing...

At the client - longtimemt

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Most accounts any more are overflow, the hospital keeps the good dictators and long reports, that is what it is where I work anyway, very seldom anything long and never very good anyway.

I am only good for the short ones and route out the longer ones - just me

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My hands are so far gone from my neck issues (radiculopathy) and frozen shoulder, that I have to be careful what clients I accept. I thank my lucky stars for the transcriptionist helping me, as anything over a few minutes kills my hands. I spend more time naming files than I do transcribing them. You definitely make more money on the long reports... My newest client--- I asked him a million questions before taking him on to ensure I could handle his account... Then he started dictating the long reports. Luckily, somebody I met on this board set me up with a friend of hers who is transcribing the long reports, or I would lose that account, which is not good because he is connected to my surgery center accounts. You should pick up some work doing the IMEs and workers' compensation. They pay very well. I am jealous.....

You could not be more wrong. More and more hospitals and clinics are 100% outsource. sm - Geesh

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If you would read up in the industry, about healthcare and transcription both, you would know this.

Sorry... - Morgam

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I'm sorry about your disabilities. It must be very hard. I don't do long reports because I don't get any and was wondering if anyone else was getting long reports. Wishing you the best.

I also only do short ones. Mine is just - because that is

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the type of reports I like. I actually do much better pay wise with the short than the long. I bore very easy, and I find myself to be much slower with a long report. The doctor's I work for now send in charts that are mostly under 2 minutes. I have found with the ones I have worked with that the shorter the charts, the faster the dictator, which for some reason keeps my attention better.

Like some others - said

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I like the short ones. I about fall asleep typing long reports where I think the doctors just like to hear their own voice and repeat over and over and over. I like the little ones that I can whip through quickly and move on.

I totally agree, more money to be made in a longer report - not having to do so much for, sm

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demographics and being able to keep your hands on the keyboard for an extended period of time does equal more money for the hour. I used to do long reports but have been stuck in a clinic job for a while where the majority of the reports are less than 2 minutes. I now have to type upwards of 70 something patients to get 2200 or more lines. I miss the days when I could get 2200-2500 lines in 8 hours and type around 40 patients. I have no idea where the long jobs have gone for you, but in my case, it's clinic work that is EMR and most of the report has already been put into the system and I am just typing what needs to be added, meaning that the HPI and Plan sometimes are the only things I have to type in the report, which makes for a shorter report = fewer lines per patient. The time for patient look up and demographics is not included in my lph pay.

Long reports - Only way to make counts. - Morgan

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For all the busy (unpaid) work we have to do for each report (load sound file, adjust volume & speed for dictator, fill out spreadsheet on patient, confirm work type, open and close other programs to do this and occasionally Google search a term or new drug, to be paid .08 cents is ridiculous for a one-line report. As an IC I did 1200 to 2000 lines a day. Working for a service with all this unpaid documentation I have not been able to do more than 600 lines a day because the majority of my time is taken doing unpaid labor.

Another thing cutting into our line counts. sm - state of confusion

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Really miss transcribing long op notes, always something new to learn, such as equipment, techniques, procedures. Love the cutting edge stuff. Very bored with H and P, discharge summaries, consults. Wonder where they all went since I've been working on some of my account for 5 years and wonder what happened to the long notes I used to get????

Compound short reports with the transition to only being paid for one space between sentences, pre-supplied headings we no longer are paid for (the ones we used to type in ourselves)......sigh

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