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How is accidentally omitting the DOS in the ADT a critical error? - nm

Posted: May 14, 2012

Good Question - asked the same thing

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a few months ago when I got one. Never got a satisfactory answer, other than "Because I said so."

Because they need it for billing and its all about the money. - NM

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If the correct patient and visit are chosen, the DOS hardly - seems like a critical error. NM

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It's "critical" but not critical enough to get paid for. We don'the get paid - to type it in the ADT. nm

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just humor them - slave wages

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it's majorly important to them. More important even than what's in the document itself. So be sure you put it. Double check. Humor them.

Date of Service - MT

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I have often said that MTs should be given a field trip to a hospital HIM department to see what the reports look like and how date of service, referring physician etc. all come into play. If you are working on a consultation and you do not put the dictated date of service, that consultant when the time comes to get paid by the insurance company will not get paid because there is not a date on it. So that critical error is yours. It is a critical error because it affects patient care. If you put the date of dictation in as the date of service, and the Client Profile does not state to do so, that too is a critical error. Put yourself in that report. If that was your report, and had a wrong date on it, wouldn't you, the patient be upset? As for filling the ADT there is a new thing now where the ADT will be prefilled if the physician enters the information in correctly. ADT is a very critical part of a patient's report.

Docs never fill the DOS. We do it manually, but we don'the get paid for it. - Must not be too critical. NM

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We spend time searching, - sm

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verifying, and correcting patient info & account numbers, which is the most important factor in patient care & billing, yet they don't pay us for that either. Sending a CC to the wrong doctor is a HIPAA violation, but we don't get paid for researching that either. I honestly don't see how they get away with make us research & enter things, yet not pay us.

They also don't pay us the straight typing rate when we have to retype bad SR - MT2

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I just mentioned in another post, every time I have to retype at 4 cpl when I should be paid 10 cpl what SR messes up royally, my mind says to me "stop it! You don't get paid for this!" But then, I rationalize I NEED A JOB. That's bottom line! I got so poor as an MT I lost my car and cannot find a job outside the house. That was my fault. Now I am glad I am here b/c I know I will get minimum wage every week and the rent and a little more will be paid (utilities). I thank God for that. This is coming from someone who earned 50K "back in the day," and slowly went into the muck and mire. So, while we don't get paid to research, and we don't get paid to retype (no F11 allowed on my team), well, we are grateful to have a job. I am. I truly am. So there is something strange going on here... is this perhaps that syndrome where those being held hostage start thanking the one who holds them hostage? Seriously... folks...

fine line...sm - boost

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we are told to fill DOS even if not dictated BUT if somewhere in the report dictator says "today" then we are to fill in the DOS that corresponds to the dictated date. How do WE know that dictator did not see the patient yesterday. Afterall they are human too and make mistakes.

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