Charging for STAT dictation

Does anyone know the standards for charging for dictation into an EMR (SOAPware). There's really no way to check line count. Do you charge by how many minutes are dictated? I'm in a quandry and think I'm being taken advantage of. Thanks in advance. ...

Stroke/neuro disease specialist speaks with lisp and is eating while dictating to boot (always fun... LOL!). He is giving Past Medical History on patient, so his specialty actually may not be relevant. She is being seen for Alzheimer's with visual hallucinations. Other dictated PMH includes hypertension, diabetes mellitus type II. (Obviously not complete, given her current meds are Synthroid, atropine, vitamin E, Aricept, Lipitor, nifedipine, Namenda, glyburide. (Gi ...

I know this shouldn't bother me, but I have this doctor (and he has a PA-C under him that does it too) that STAT every file. He's an urgent care doc, so I get that he thinks because the place he works is called "Urgent Care" that everything he does must, therefore, be "urgent." But it's simply not true. Your "urgent" sinus infection which you felt you needed to STAT got pushed in front of several files that your colleagues who actually sent patients to the ER by ...

I've been charging 13 cents a line for a 55 character line since 1989. Have rates gone up? I've been hiding out in my cave for a number of years now just doing my own thing and have not kept track of market trends. Please let me know! Thanks. ...

I recently acquired a very small account and the doctor requires me to pick up tapes twice a week, print, deliver the transcripts to his ofice and fax each of the transcribed letters to multiple offices using my home fax machine. Average letters to be faxed each week is about 30. I asked for a faxing fee and he said 'No" because the previous MT was not charging for faxing. What should I do? I did the math and it seemed I will just be breakeven and not make money cons ...

Just how much profit are they making. I have no clue, 17 years ago it was 14-cents a line for a 50 character line. Or maybe somebody can give me a site where I can look it up myself. Thanks ...

Okay, I am still a bit confused. I admit I have been spoiled by being an IC for years. I have a chance to pick up a couple of side accounts, but after talking to them they just think they can dictate into something at my home and I will magically be able to hear their dictation. I am totally not well versed with all these computer programs. Can someone explain to me whether it would be worth getting some kind of program to be able to do this? It seems costly to be able to ...

I thought I had already posted this but I guess it didn't go through since I can't find the post but here's my question. I've been working for as an MT for a long time in an imaging facility being paid per hour. It's been a long time since I was an IC. A friend has asked me to type a 6 hour discussion from a focus group meeting. Nothing too technical and no strong accents. I'm used to just charging .10 per line but he wants a quote per hour. ...

Hi, I am new here, just stumbled across this site and is seems very imformative. I just found out this week that my job is being eliminated due to the hospital I am working for going to an outside service. I am actually in better shape than the other 5 MTs because I have my years in for full retirement, 32 years to be exact. I have already picked up a small job working for a local cardiologist. My question is, I quoted her a per line rate and she is balking on payi ...

Hi, Is the word stat in all caps or just lower case? Thanks so much! ...

I'm doing an ER and doctor dictates CMP, BMP stat, and (what sounds like card A)? ...

Normally, with a brain injury patient, I would be extremely careful about pre-medicating the patient with lidocaine and fentanyl and waiting several minutes for this to s/l quit-al-bate and do a careful rapid-sequence intubation with etomidate and a long-acting paralytic agent. My clinical impression in this unfortunate patient is she is in trouble and needs a stat intubation. ...

Any idea why all of my reports are stats? Its weird. Most of my shift is stat reports. When the stats run out, most of the time I get NJA. How is that possible? They are ASR too. I used to get probably 50/50 before the merge. But now that I started getting all of these stats, I'm probably 90/10. ...

Any info on this company? Pay on time? Good to work for? Or stay away? ...

Does anyone have recent info on this company? The good, the bad and the ugly. The only things I could find were several years TIA ...

Anyone ever notice that everytime the NTS-Stat address comes into your IM list that work gets screwy? I mean, why have this address at all since we never use this person or address for anything? Seems fishy to me that if you delete it, "it" knows to reappear on your IM list in, like, 20 seconds automatically. I know, several of you will revert to calling me paranoid. Please don't waste your breath. I'm just trying to figure out why and how the "monkey-business ...

Anyone else get driven nuts by dictators who STAT everything? There a group of about 3 doctors who work in the urgent care for the clinic I primarily type on and they STAT the great majority of their reports. What's weird is that they don't make them all STAT, just the majority of them. At first I thought, "maybe they've just been trained wrong and were told that urgent notes need to be coded this way," or maybe when they call in to do their reports, the prompts they ...

In Fluency when you have a stat job as a your 2nd file in your que, how do you switch the jobs so the stat jobs becomes the first available job? ...

She is on peritoneal dialysis. She does not have an access. She has an old right AV s/l *brachiostemino* AV graft which was shut down at this time. Thx! ...

Anyone ever heard of them? I did an archive search and couldn't find anything. Thanks in advance! ...

Would appreciate opinions on this. Working as an IC and received an email regarding stat reports. If you are "scheduled" to be working and the hospital needs a stat you will be getting a call to transcribe the report. I am truly sick and tired of MT services taking advantage of IC status and then expecting an employee committment. Is it me, or is this situation getting worse? Recently I was looking to add hours as an IC and could not believe how many ...

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Doctor left out an L. Gill's laminectomy http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijss/vol2n2/lumbar.xml Upon further review, it sounds like he is saying "consistent with a GILS or JILS procedure" (and then he spells it Gils or Jils). GILS or JILS procedure. Can someone confirm if this is correct? This physician has a very thick Spanish accent and is so very hard to understand. He spells out G O G L I S (or X) procedure. An ...

OK, I know that probably nobody on here has heard of Stat-Copy Technologies out of Texas, because it is a small company, but I have to warn people anyway. The wage dispute person from MT Stars cannot help me because I am an independent contractor. This company now owes me over $2500 for work that I did in July and August. The last time she paid me was on Oct 10, for a check that I should have had on Aug 15 -- 2 months late. I have sent repeated e-mails aski ...

STAT Transcription in Michigan's ad says must have $$ own computer, own programs, own up-to-date books, Stedman's Medical spell checker, up-to-date Drug Index--$$--for low wages, oh, and pay your own taxes, no benefits. Hospitals buy equipment for doctors...anything they want to keep them happy and on staff. Once a radiologist came into the transcription department for batteries for his hospital-supplied hand-held Dictaphone so he could dictate his office notes...suppl ...

Does anyone have any information on STAT Medical Transcription Services?? Thanx ...

Have never done peds really and definitely not PICU so I am stumped here. A 5-day-old girl with hypoplastic heart syndrome, just had a stage I Norwood procedure (whatever that is) with shunt placement. "Her creatinine was 0.82 and preoperatively was 0.67 so not much of a change there. Her s/l "flank nares" have remained in the 60s." ...

Charging for STAT dictation - RhondaL

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