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Line count discrepancies - Poppy
Posted: Oct 13, 2009
"So if the company wants to consistently give me a slightly higher line count than I am able to document at my end, I should have a problem with this... why??"
Wow. Crankybeach. You are old enough that you should not need to ask that question. Here are a few of the more publicized examples of "why":
Exhibit A: Enron. Lots of people played along and look at the end result.
Exhibit B: Madoff. Lots of people played along and look at the end result.
Exhibit C: The financial meltdown of a year ago involving complex algorithms developed by Ph.D. mathematicians that no one understood but virtually all went along with. Look at the end result.
Arguably, the people who led these institutions got away with much they should not have because the minions went along, collected their share and didn't care to actually understand what was happening. This is going on in the MT industry too.
Far too many people (it sounds like you included) had/have the "I" and "me" mentality that you mention when you ask "So if the company wants to consistently give me a slightly higher line count than I am able to document at my end, I should have a problem with this... why??"
As long as "I'm" getting what is best for "me," no one and nothing else matters. Thus, a very big piece of why our economy is in shambles. Just because you feel you are getting a fair shake with more lines than you are able to document does not make the practice ethical. What happens when the line count is not in your favor? Will you be so generous in your attitude?
I'll say it again, at the risk of repeating myself. - CrankyBeach
[ In Reply To ..]I'm getting paid for demographics.
I just manually counted all the characters in the editable fields in the demographic screen for the job I am currently doing, which include patient name, DOB, SSN, billing number, MR number, facility ID, patient class, station, service code, etc., and, go figure, for this patient the count came to 122. At a 65-character line, that's, by golly, nearly 2 lines per job. Hold the presses! That bears a mighty suspicious resemblance to the line count discrepancy in my favor that I've been noticing all along!
But seriously, if you Google docqscribe and 'line count' there are instances where people are claiming that 'the Q' has been known to manipulate line counts. This would indicate that this can be done with the DocQScribe software. However... I do not work for 'the Q' and I have a vague recollection of being told at the time I was hired that demographics are included in our line count. So regardless of what other companies might do, and what the software might be capable of being manipulated to do, the Transcend accounts that are on the DEP platform are being paid at a 65 character per line including spaces and including demographics. Deal with it. It's a harsh truth but somebody has to speak it.
At current average LPH rates, with an average of 30 jobs a day, this might come to around $5 a day, or a little over $100 a month.
Quick... somebody call 60 Minutes.
I think the Enron and Madoff people would laugh in my face, with numbers like that.
Maybe her company counts headers/footers, but her - see msg
[ In Reply To ..]her own computer's software doesn't pick up on the headers/footers because they haven't been merged yet.
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