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Getting warned about QASAR kicking in today. - Getting fired from audit. I have a question.


Posted: Feb 23, 2010

My question:  If I do not pass my audit (good chance I will not for MANY reasons), and the outcome is getting fired, WILL I BE ABLE TO COLLECT UNEMPLOYMENT AND GET TAA.  I would like to go back to school, no matter what the outcome is, and of course collect unemployement while attending school.

I have been an MT for 30 years.  My audits are usually 97.8 and hard to get 98% ALL THE TIME with the horrible dictators.  If I get a couple of good dictators, then it is at 100%, like all of us should be.  Plus I work in the evenings which family tends to bother me and I get distracted, but had to work these hours to get work and if I stayed days, I would get NO JOBS AVAIABLE.  Just cannot win being an MT. 

My ulcers are kicking in and just knowing the threats of losing my job, basically a sweat job, is enough to do me in.  Every month we will have these audits from now on.  MQ says clients want it done, bull I say, the company told the clients this will be done in order to keep the accounts for the big wigs.

Everything is for the client.  The highers ups tell our clients a bunch of promises and that is how this company gets the clients so these big wigs can keep getting their high income. 

Hopefully something good will come out of this when I get let go.  I am also considered paid high on the totem pole which is another reason to let me go.  How fortunate for this company to find a way to do this to the high paying employees.  Just hope it will help me out at the end by collecting unemployement and TAA.  

My husband is actually happy about this.  He said it is a long time coming for me to finally be rid of this company and MT life.  He said if we are to get 98%, then these dictators better be dictating at least 98% clear and perfect.  If you get a dictator that talks like crap, you get crap back because that is all you hear.  But, oh no, not MQ.  It has been PERFECT NO MATTER WHAT! 

Thanks for reading.  I am really freaked out.  Never thought I would get fired after going to college for this.  Do nurses, x-ray techs, medical assistants get treated like this?  Do they have the worry about being QAd all the time and worry about the constant threat of losing their jobs like this?  No, of course not.  Does ASR get fired?  They are definitely not 98% compatible and yet we get fired and not ASR? 

GOOD LUCK TO ALL!

I don't think you get fired for 1 bad audit - scrub

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I have had a bad audit before and I am still here.

I am not sure if you would still be able to collect unemployment if you are fired, but I think you could fight it and win just because they make our situation impossible to acheive quality and accuracy anymore.

I have no first hand experience, so hopefully someone else can help you out with that. If you get NJA, I would immediately file for unemployment insteaed of making up work though, because I heard you have to get unemployment to get TAA.

In my state (CA) you can still get UI if you get fired. n/m - Kiki

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AUDITED - Nature

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First I would like to say that ASR gets audited too. I do both ASR and transcription. The doctors are still hard to understand even with ASR. We have been audited for a good while now. Yes, it does make life much more stressful. Since all this auditing, taking away our primry accounts, having our blanks counted, and still having to keep our 150 line count, my stress level has increased ten fold. I was at the doctor last week. My blood pressure was 200/100 (on medication). My doctor just stood there looking at me. I have also developed DM type 2 (which my doctor says stress makes worse), and my cholesterol level has gone up (why I do not know, as I eat 2 meals a day and do not even eat until 12 noon.) I have never had high cholesterol before. If I lose this job, I am a dead duck, as I will not be able to afford all my medications (which I hate anyway, but have to take them).

I have worked for the combination of these 3 companies for 10 years now. I use to love my job and could not wait to get started in the morning. Now I dread it every day.

If I live long enough, I can retire in 3 years. I also went to school and many hardships to get my degree and learn this trade. It is too late for me to go back to school, as by the time I get out, I can almost retire.

Some nights I wish I could go to bed and never have to wake up, but then I would miss seeing my beautiful grandchildren grow up and being with my children.

The Good Lord help us all, because no one else can. Please pray for me, as I pray for all MQ MTs every morning and evening.

Your post made me sad and mad at the same time. - Kiki

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Sad for your situation (mine is pretty sad too) and mad that companies can get away with so many things that end up causing stress to so many people but they don't.

I ended up in the ER recently for a stress-caused condition. I could barely afford the 100 copay and wish I didn't have to go, but I felt if I didn't I would die from anxiety. They gave me a dose of meds and sent me off. 100 bux. Ouch.

I think you can make it to retirement; you're lucky, you only have 3 years - I have many more than that. Try not to let the stress get to you. Funny coming from me, but it's true. Take care of yourself first and foremost. My cholesterol was sky-high, too, and for no obvious reason---I'm not overweight, eat pretty healthy, so it was also probably stress-related. It's just not worth it. Try to get some exercise, even if it's just walking around outside if that is possible or just pacing in your house, stretching, etc.

I have to believe things will work out for all us, whatever we decide (or don't decide) to do.

oops, left word off first paragraph; They don't CARE.... n/m - Kiki

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Oh my gosh, me too! MAJOR HIGH BP; I think from this job. - Getting fired from audit.

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Yes, I know we get audited from ASR. It is just the company seems to think ASR is so wonderful and dropped our pay because of it. ASR is the most horrible thing I have ever seen. Maybe 20% of the accounts are good with ASR, but not most of them.

The stress is killing me too! I do exercise though. I try and walk at least 30-45 minutes a day, up and down hills. I eat well, chicken salads, veg/fruits. I started having horrible headaches for the last 4 years and finally went in to the doctor. My blood pressure was 150/100. I was told to take Atenolol. Well, it did not work. Three months later, I gained weight because of the medicine and I am so tired all the time. A headache started up again for a week and I started to feel nauseous. I went back into the doctor and my BP was now 168/110.

The doctor told me to immediately not exercise for 1 week for fear of heart attack/stroke and did not want my BP to raise anymore during exercise and now I am talking 3 pills, 3 PILLS to control by BP.

I had all the lab work done and saw a cardiologist. My heart is fine, low cholesterol, great diet, exercise is fine. All lab work came back normal, thyroid, blood sugar, etc. It is just my BP is way off. STRESS FROM THIS JOB and sitting all day long. By the way, my doctor and cardiologist use EPIC. They do not like dealing with MTSO's and so they have a GE program they use and everything is done in the computer by the doctors and nurses while you have your visit.

Just know I am praying for you Nature! You are almost done. I have to head back to school to get out of this field.

Boy, I can appreciate where you are at - Heading south

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because I was feeling the same with my situation (hoping I would not wake up)and then realized I had been given a second chance at living for some reason and that made a huge difference in my life. I can now look around and see people worse off than me. I also will be at retirement age in a few years and that keeps me going as I will be getting more money a month than working these past several years and be better able to take care of myself and loved ones. It is so hard to look forward when you are in a place that seems like a deep hole with no ladder. Please, keep thinking of your grandchildren, they need you. I know words cannot help much, but know there is someone praying for you this very minute. ((hugs))

THANK YOU - Nature

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My dear fellow MTs, thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement. So many times I have read here of a MT having problems, and I have dropped everything right then and there and prayed for them with tears in my eyes. Now you are doing the same for me. It is humbling, and I thank you. What makes me really sad is that many of you are in the same situation, so I KNOW what you are going through. How I wish I had an answer for all of us. Bless you all.

Types both too!! - So Tired

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Hi, I hear you!! I type both ASR and transcription for seven facilities. I just failed an audit when I've never failed one before. Now I'm at 100% QA with the fear of gettign fired with the next failed audit. I find ASR so much harder especially with the foreign doctors because there is so much to fix--words, grammar and punctuation. Then on top of it over the three years, I have had 3 DECREASES IN PAY!!!

no, you don't get TAA if fired - bj

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I called and talked to UE office about the TAA. She said if we get fired then we do not qualify for TAA. Only way you qualify is if you get laid off. No exceptions.

you might not be able to go to school and collect UC at the same time - spice girl

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I think at least in my state if you are in school then you are considered to be unavailable for work and thus cannot get unemployment compensation. I don't really know this for a fact, just what I have heard in the past.

Same exact boat as you!!! - So Tired!!

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I've been a transcriptions for 20 years and have worked for Medquist for 9 years. I have been under 100% QA for about 2 months now because of a failed audit at 96.2% and have been told if I get another one, I will be fired. I also work at night and constantly distracted. I also seem to get the crap dictators that no one wants to do during the day. My supervisor says there is no way that people can pick and choose during day....yeah right!! Anyway, it seemed that they picked all of the reports that I had trouble with to use for my audit almost like they are purposefully trying to get rid of me. I told my supervisor that I am constantly getting new foreign doctors because two of the facilities I type for are teaching hospitals. Her answer to me was...get this..."typing is typing. If you know how to transcribe, you can type anything." Obviously, she has never transcribed a day in her life and I bet that 95% of the high-ups haven't either and have the same concept. Unfortunately, I can't lose this job because I have a disabled son and need to be home and this job is perfect because I don't need to leave to work. I haven't been able to sleep in 2 months!! I read and reread each client profile, look up everything even when I know that something is spelled correctly and even when I get my reports back from QA even those people don't have a clue!!! As my mom says, take it one day at a time and just keep looking for something else.


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