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Benefit rates...just a thought - on the chopping block


Posted: Jul 29, 2013

Four emails, one meant for a completely different MT than myself.

Does it seem to any of you that Ms B.P. is demonstrating 99.6% accuracy?

She should be FIRED, just as we would be for such egregious errors.

Benefit Rates - Quit

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If we did that, we would be written up for a HIPPA violation!


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