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has anyone made the transition or considered - wondering

Posted: Jul 25, 2014

looking or working in the IME report generating venue? I have seen a couple of help wanted ads for this type of job. Where you would take pt records and create an IME letter. I was wondering if anyone out there has worked doing this before and what it is like.

If it is that type of report - generation

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that should be done by a healthcare professional. I used to transcribe for a doctor years ago that did IMEs and he got paid extremely well. It sounds to me like something else that will prove to be exploitative and underpaid. If you are considering it, I hope you have a long list of prepared questions to ask before taking that on. Who gets blamed if there are mistakes because of a difference of interpretation?

I second the high charge by the doctor for doing IMEs. sm - Feather Tuscadero

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I think my former employer charged $500.

I did IME reports when I worked for a cardiologist. sm - Feather Tuscadero

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The doctor still had to dictate what she gathered from the exam. I am not aware of a situation where an MT would create the letter simply from the records. There is literally a 3-ring binder of information that goes with each claim. The letter that I would type originated with a template of questions the doctor had to cover, and it ended up being several pages long. None of it was anything I hadn't heard before, but it surely was not something I would think an MT could generate without any dictation.

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