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If you left transcription, what would you do? - Coding?

Posted: May 11, 2011

I've heard a lot of people saying they are getting out of transcrption but what are they doing? Are there jobs comparable to transcription that may pay better or at least consistently.

Still an MT but currently going to school for - sm

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coding. First I am getting my AA degree in Health Information Management to become an RHIT. Then, I want to go on further to get my bachelor's degree in Health Information Technology to become an RHIA. I know people will say that coding will become like transcription some day, sent overseas, blah blah blah. But, this is what I want to do and these jobs are in high demand (at least in my area - Los Angeles area). An RHIT here makes about 50k a year and an RHIA can make up to 100k.

That's what I've heard about coding - It will become like VR

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is to transcription, so less money. Have heard good things about HIT program. It's hard to go back to school when you have to have an income.

It is hard to go back to school when you need an income but - sm

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I am still working full-time as an MT while going to school. The university where I live offers the HIT program completely on-line, which makes it easier for me. I am also a single mom, so it can be done!

Going to court reporting - So Tired

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I would love to believe that we will always be able to make it in medical transcription, but it is now a situation of having to work sooo hard, actually tooo hard for very little money. The days of this business being lucrative is over. I use to enjoy being an IC when I made very good money, but now making less money and the high self-employment taxes, there really is no upside to being an IC now and the employee status jobs stink just as bad.

I am having a hard time riding it out when I see the fall out coming. JMHO

I am a bit of a hermit too, so my job prospects - are limited. I cannot concentrate

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unless I have extreme quiet. The thought of having to go into an office and have mindless meetings about who is going to stock the paper towels nauseates me to no end.

Online school? - syringa

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Please let me know which school offers the HIT program entirely on-line. Thanks!

I know Santa Barbara City College - offers HIT program

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completely on-line. SBCC.net

Here are all the on-line schools that are accredited... - sm

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http://www.cahiim.org/accredpgms.asp

Accredited refers to financial aid but you can find some really bad accredited schools - see message

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There are some huge problems with accredited schools. I've been reading about the Department of Education trying to close some of them and there is legislation out to try to stop the fraud and abuse related to the federal financial aid. The accreditation part is important though, if you require financial aid, but it is not a good indicator of quality of education. Apparently too many people are getting high-pressured into bad programs, just because they are eligible for financial aid and the schools want that money. They have salespeople who are paid on commission who will do anything and everything they can to sign you up.

There's not enough practical skills in most of those degree programs - MT

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When I searched for HIT programs, I found some of the schools that are being sued by the federal government because of their failure rates. I found others that look like they are very light introductory courses, but not enough of anything that would get you a job once you finish. I think the first thing to do is to decide exactly what you want to do once you finish. If you want to code, most of the people with HIT degrees tell me they didn't do enough of that in school to be able to do it on the job. A management job might be good, as long as you have some kind of experience to go along with the HIT degree, because otherwise the competition for management jobs is going to be fierce.

I have talked to some court reporter students about the problems they are having - sm

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I've talked to several court reporting students who paid thousands of dollars for extra years because they can't meet the required speed. It isn't like the speed MTs talk about. It's completely different. The people I talked to have said they finally gave up when they couldn't reach that speed, but some of them have been out $10,000/year for several years before giving up.

Then I'm not so sure about the jobs being available if they had succeeded.

I am going with a court reporting firm who will train and pay me while I learn. - So Tired

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I will be paid an hourly rate while taking depositions and then per page for the transcribed depositions. I will go through their boot camp while learning. I also have friends who are attorneys and once I am trained, they will be using me to help with their depositions as well.

Anything has to be better than what I am dealing with in transcription. I have been in medical transcription for a very long time, been through mergers, and this industry just continues to change drastically, but not for the benefit of the MT. We have to work a lot harder and way more hours and still get less pay. I love transcription, but I do not love what I have started settling for to have a job.

That sounds like a really good deal. - sm

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I think you are very fortunate to have found something that you enjoy. Good luck with your career!

That sounds like a great plan, So Tired. For balance, tho, - let us remember what happened to

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court reporters. They went through all of it before us--the good old days--the brief but great showering-gold days--the bust--and now the new equilibrium you're happy to join, all of it involving continual obsolescence of old skills and development of new ones.

I'm glad for you, though, that you are going for what you want now instead of just hanging on and hoping it'll come to you.

The sooner, the better - sucker punch

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I'm about 1/3 of the way toward my R.N. degree...

Oh, I do envy you, Sucker Punch. If I were younger - I would be doing the same. So many wonderful

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doors to open with that one. So many jobs really worth doing.

Life after transcription - MThead

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I'm going to go back to school for dental assisting next spring. It's a one-year program at a local community college. the pay in my region is $20 to $25 an hour.

Even though I would never want to do that, it sounds like a great idea - for those who do

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Dental Assisting just doesn't sound like anything I would want to do, but it would probably be a very good job for people who would enjoy that kind of work. I personally have done some hands-on patient care, and I prefer not to do that if I can avoid it. I admire people who do though. Good luck with your studies!

There are 2 kinds of people: Those who think - standing all day with

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their hands in other people's mouths is good way to make a living, and the others. :) Good for you, BTW. Maybe stock up on some nice conversational tidbits? I'm one of the grunters who likes to keep that one-way conversation flowing.

Now, I figure I'll grow and sell rare violets on e-Bay. They're small, and I could grow them in a trailer park if it came to that, which it no doubt would.

GoGo Dancing - Petula Periwinkle

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There is a market for over-40 shimmy chicks. Not a pretty market... but it is out there and I am going for it!

Dumpster diving - it's gotta pay better

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and then selling my finds on Craigslist.

Extreme Couponing N0Msg - going balistic

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because I just gotta 'work at home.' No/msg - going balistic

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