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what's happening - kcmt

Posted: May 16th, 2016 - 9:01 am In Reply to: Fellow MTs, QAs, QA for ILPs please help piece together - what has been happening

My opinion based on what I knew when I worked in a multi-physician office.

1 - Insurance companies are cutting the amounts they will reimburse for healthcare, which means reduced payments for providers.

2 - Malpractice insurance is ridiculously expense due to all the lawsuits, warranted or not....most of them not.

3 - Healthcare providers are forced to cut costs anywhere they can. As we all know, in corporate settings (like most hospitals have become) the actual healthcare professionals are not the ones making the decisions.

I left working in an office about 10 years ago, and EMR was just becoming a "thing." I do know the doctors I worked for were absolutely not in favor of it. My PCP now does his own typing right there in the room with me. He knows what I do for a living and he jokes with me that it would be much faster if I would just type it.

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Fellow MTs, QAs, QA for ILPs please help piece together - what has been happening (Views: 1214, 2016-05-15, 9:48 pm)
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- timeline - JuneBugMTMS (Views: 1102, 2016-05-15, 10:59 pm)
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      - You must be new or grossly naive - LDSMT (Views: 1205, 2016-05-16, 9:52 am)
        Actually I have been doing transcription - for over twenty years (Views: 835, 2016-05-16, 9:57 am)
      - If she made $80,000 a year - she earned every penny of it. (Views: 1173, 2016-05-16, 10:41 am)
        Of course you are on production - You got paid more per line (Views: 820, 2016-05-16, 10:53 am)
        You are killing my - Happy MT Week buzz (Views: 949, 2016-05-16, 11:39 am)
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        made $25-50 per hour - Tx Goat farmer/Cannuck Fish Farmer (Views: 769, 2016-05-16, 11:57 am)
      - 80k does sound high, but I'm guessing she - worked much more than 40 (Views: 846, 2016-05-16, 12:12 pm)
        You are making an assumption - OT was not mentioned (Views: 1013, 2016-05-16, 12:37 pm)
        $80,000.00 - suthern girl (Views: 1179, 2016-05-16, 5:15 pm)
        No, the objection is that you are saying - that a transcriptionist (Views: 911, 2016-05-16, 6:03 pm)
        what a transcriptionist makes - suthern girl (Views: 762, 2016-05-17, 12:24 am)
        I did not mention a lot of professions - My comment was not (Views: 836, 2016-05-17, 7:10 am)
        Nobody thinks that, she said she MADE that - we DO deserve more though (Views: 724, 2016-05-17, 10:47 am)
        Actually the first response said that - when she said (Views: 815, 2016-05-17, 11:28 am)
        There was NEVER a case where everybody - made $80,000 each and caused outsourcing (Views: 825, 2016-05-17, 11:33 am)
        You did not work any harder than the - in house transcriptionists (Views: 816, 2016-05-17, 11:40 am)
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        LOL - I am kind of in the know (Views: 756, 2016-05-17, 11:55 am)
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        Why would you dislike that? - LOL (Views: 670, 2016-05-17, 2:01 pm)
      - I've been doing transcription since 1972 and my top - year was 73K. It used to be that way. (Views: 703, 2016-05-16, 3:15 pm)
        PS, $100 bonuses for a little extra work were - not uncommon, either. (Views: 647, 2016-05-16, 3:18 pm)
    - 12 yrs ago made almost 70,000 last year just over - 24,000, looking at bankruptcy (Views: 864, 2016-05-16, 2:52 pm)
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- my take for what it is worth - corgi (Views: 837, 2016-05-16, 11:31 pm)
  - Excellent, Corgi! - PTMT (Views: 841, 2016-05-17, 11:16 am)
  - My experience on this as well - is that without the trained (Views: 811, 2016-05-17, 11:35 am)
  - Corgi, I agree - Could be my story exactly (Views: 797, 2016-05-17, 9:09 pm)
  - yep - moonchild (Views: 663, 2016-05-19, 2:21 pm)
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