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What? Shaw is leaving us? - And we also now have

Posted: Mar 04, 2015

a "Senior Vice President of Coding Solutions" as well as a whole host of other suit promotions and departures.

Work faster - work harder

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we have a grossly bloated corporate structure to support.

LOL I loved your post! sm - MModal Livestock

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I needed something to cheer me up and your post just hit the spot. I caught the Black Death on Thursday and I hate being bedridden.

I wish Shaw luck in his new career in... the Durable Medical Equipment Revenue Cycle industry? Do they make the medical equipment or just the revenue cycles for it? Couldn't you put revenue cycle industry in front of anyone's job as long as they get money for it?

Whatever. Congratulations Mr. Rietkerk, I look forward to the revolutionary ideas you brought to our company coming to the medical equipment industry.

Predictions for Rietkerk philosophy at new job:

Catheter sharing program.

Fluency Dialysis Machine - duct tape a desktop water fountain pump to a Brita filter.

Return to wooden pegs and hooks for prosthetics. Promote corporate synergy with Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

Patent the new four point walker design: The Fluency AmbyLator - take a normal walker, slap flame decals on it and charge $2,400. Talking points: New compact/aerodynamic/ergonomic design improves speed and maneuverability.

New pacemaker: Fluency PayseMacher - car battery in a backpack with jumper cables hooked up to a Clapper. Just clap to receive life-saving shock. Talking points: No more risky and time consuming surgery, only costs three quarters as much.

New CPAP machine: Fluency OxxxxxxxyGen - pumps a fresh supply of helium to the patient. Talking points: 1) Helium is far lighter than oxygen and thus should be easier to breathe. 2) Patient can entertain guests with hilarious new voice.

New hospital bed: Fluency ReStoRz DeLux (silent z and pointless capitalization for originality) - Hospital bed that lowers into an attached coffin on wheels. Talking points: Faster turnaround time in patient care.

So, good luck with your revenue cycles and thanks for taking the time and effort to ruin my entire profession. You showed us that through systemic discrimination, ill-defined and arbitrary quality standards, and a complete disrespect for patient safety and human dignity, our company could achieve its dream of bankruptcy, serial lawsuits, and continuing underperformance! Keep on the living the dream!

Oh, and a hearty welcome to our newcomers. Congratulations Noel Tauzin on your promotion. You're gonna love it. Just remember the MModal way, work a year and then take the money and run.

And my condolences to Regina Buchwald... VP of transcription quality... I don't know what you did to deserve it, but I feel bad for you. Just remember the MModal way, blame us. It's clearly our fault. I'm sorry in advance when your highly trained and experienced American workers fail you. At least you still have the shining example of the ILPs though. Try to forgive us for our geographical disabilities.

MModal Livestock from the medical transcription revenue cycles industry

I have to tell you - that I just sprayed

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Diet Coke on my computer screen over the Fluency ReStoRz DeLux.

Sorry you've been sick, but, boy, have I missed your posts! :-)

Glad I made you laugh LOL - MModal Livestock

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Sorry about the computer screen though. Many a soda has been sprayed across my own over the years:)

Thanks. Yeah, this has been a nasty virus, but I'm beating it slowly but surely. Winter... uck!

Guess I should have read this before I posted above! lol! - cheated

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The more the merrier! nm - MModal Livestock

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What's up with that? - sm

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I thought the coding program was over. Unless they are hiring people who are coders already, or training outside people and not us. I know that the coding program has been going on for many years and most of us knew nothing about it. When they first offered it to us I checked an Indian MT board and it had been posted on that board a week before they sent out that coding offer to U.S. MTs. I know that Indian law prohibits people from being fired, so maybe they are only going to teach ILPs, but that is just a guess.

The guy who is taking Shaw's place, way worse than Shaw. Heaven help us.

I never understood why they'd have a coding - sm

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program in the first place & pay people to attend it when there are so many people out there who have finished coding school & gotten their certification & still can't find work. It was always a little fishy IMO.

Obviously you know nothing about coding - Its not like transcription

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bad coders not only lose money for the facility they can incur fraud charges for miscoded diagnoses. Why do you think coders have such a hard time finding a job without experience, even with credentials? I know 3 coders who finished school and can't get a job--no experience. Facilities just can't take the risk. That's why experienced coders get paid up to 70K. Mmodal put a program in place so they knew without a doubt their coders were being taught properly and then shadowed with an apprenticeship to ensure their coding logic was sound.

Yes, because we all know how much they care about quality... LOL - nm

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well, they do care about fines. So theres that. - x

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Oh please. Coders are not God's gift to the world. - nm

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maybe not but I dont see them complaining about being treated - the way MTs claim they are being treated

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I work for MM as an MT and love it. I'm sure it has a lot to do with my accounts and HDSM. But I don't see coders on here complaining like you guys do.

Not yet, but coder mistreatment is coming, - most likely to M*Modal first.

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Hey, whatever helps you sleep at night - x

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You do not know that. - nm

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So if MM made such an effort - anon

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With this fabulous program, teaching their coder trainees properly and shadowing them with an apprenticeship, why did the program fold and not provide coding jobs for them?

Probably just a tax writeoff during restructuring. - Feral MT

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Cause they needed the funds - for their new

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Senior Vice President of Coding

Bye Felicia!! -NM - lol

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Why are so many leaving at once?? That's a little scary... What do they know - that we dont... nm

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meh. It has happened before. - Still Standing

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they have so many clients...and just added new ones...this ship won't sink.

About coding - sm

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admittedly I know nothing about it and am not going that route at all...But I met a lady a month or so back that was looking into coding but said something about the ICD-9 codes going to a ICD-10?? And that if she took the course now, it would be out of date too soon..Again, I know nothing, just relating, is this true?

well its all dependent upon our government, unfortunately - ICD10 was supposed to be implemented last year

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now it is supposed to be implemented October of this year. ICD 10 is much more time consuming and will require more coders. That is why everything is in limbo right now.

Oh, good grief! That is silly! - Coder

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Tell that person her decision was very, very poor. Good grief!

ICD-9 is projected to be replaced by ICD-10 on October 1, 2015. Another move to delay it is again afoot in Congress, however, so nothing is certain.

Regardless, your friend's decision was ridiculous for several reasons.

1. ICD diagnosis codes are only one of several code sets coders use. The rest remain the same.

2. She apparently misunderstands what coders learn. We learn how to USE a code set, not memorize the codes in it. Using 9 and 10 are much the same. Switching from one to the other takes about 4 to 6 hours.

3. We will still need ICD-9 for anything that occurred prior to Oct 1. We will be dealing with that and with data that is in ICD-9 for years to come.

4. Your friend could have chosen a program that taught ICD-10 in the first place. At this point, most do.

um, Titanic? nm - anon

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I sure hope you're right nm - TLC

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They restructured or something - sm

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thats corporate life, make your money and move onto bigger and better things.

Yeah, they take that - fat exit bonus

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and go on to rape the next company

Difficult to understand how the fats get bonuses - as screwed up and failing as Screwance is. sm

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This ship is going under, leaking so badly now it's a wonder it still stays afloat. Everybody in corporate world has to have heard or know about this and I cant see how anyone would want to come here to work when there's really nothing they can do to improve or better the place.

I know one recruiter moved on from there to another company, I recognized her name when I interviewed for another company, so they are either leaving voluntarily because they know the ship is sinking, or they are put out because of sinking.

Yeah, a bonus for coming to work there, but what do they do to earn it?

Such a **blanked** up mess, it's a wonder anybody wants to go there into any management at all.

It's common for these CEO types to move in - order to reap those sign-on bonuses.

Exactly. the ones who think this is only an MM thing - are showing their ignorance of the corporate world

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They needn't have bothered telling us - Old MT

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I've seen so many suits come and go it's not even funny. I was here when they got here, I'll be here when they're gone (unless something goes very right in my life).

Sounds like a whole new can of worms - for MTs/NM

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