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NJA out West, anyone zinged by 99% yet ? - pitbullmom

Posted: Jun 03, 2011

Twiddling my thumbs. Usually get audited the first of the month, nuttin' yet. Now that 99% is here - has anyone been affected yet 2 days later ? Thanks -

Not yet. - mom2huskies

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However, I do notice that the reports that I am getting (that have horrid sound quality/bottom of the barrel dictators to begin with) keep getting worse by the minute. Of course, they will pick out the very worst report to QA.

just got a 99.5 - L&L

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nm

overkill auditing - LK

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I have worked at 9 hospitals onsite and every one of them did auditing/evaluations yearly or every other year. I recently worked for another major transcription company and they did auditing yearly or every one and one half years. This monthly auditing by MQ is a bit much. There is no need for it.

over kill editing - TJ

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I agree with you. I think a lot of it has to do with keeping control of people who zip through things. Sometimes we can get into that because we have to have a certain line count, and we have to make a living too. The editing as often as they do it is very nerve-racking and uncalled for. Wish they had to do it and keep a perfect score. Who can? Yes indeed --- who can.

99% - TJ

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I have not figured out how or when they audit. I wish I knew so that I could get 99%. Otherwise who in the world can get 99%. My goodness gracious that is nearly a perfect score. No one...not one person can really do this without looking every single rule up, and every single dose up, etc. And if we don't get 99% ... well then what? We do not do it on purpose. We have to meet quotas. We have to pay bills. I support myself and this voice recog stuff has killed me. It is great in so many ways, but you also get paid so much less which I find so disheartening. I really wish we could get paid better. Sigh..

I haven't been audited - for over a year

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Used to get one once a month with samples of all the reports audited, etc., any errors and point score. Its now been a little over a year since I had an audit of any kind. Been with the Q for 11 years and only had 1 audit the first 3 years, none the next 2 or 3, a couple the next few years, then monthly for a year and now back to nothing. I just go with the flow. Don't understand the inconsistency, but can't complain about this either! Having said that, I have a feeling with the new 99% thing, I will be getting them regularly again in the future.

hard to say - L&L

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We also get audited by people at our hospital (would love to know what type), but our QA section person (whatever the acronym is) has changed 5 times in the last year. They all tell you something different. MQ will just do to you whatever it wants, however it wants.

Curious about the hospital audit - CyberlandMT

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Who is responsible for doing that? Wondering if we are in the same BOB. North here. Email me if you would like to talk.

fill me in... - I also heard about hospital audit

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I do not believe for 1 minute that the hospital does their own audit, I believe that if an MME or MT sees something in the "report lookup" and reports that to the QA, then the CCM will say, "the hospital found this on their audit."

I am in the north also.

take my word for it - L&L

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The largest private hospital in the US west of the Mississippi, with 2000 docs on staff, and celebrity, executive, and royal patients, does audit my work.

My CCM, with whom I worked for this same institution in 1999 as part of YOG, told us about this. I have no reason to doubt her.

I got doubly audited for 2 months. They did not score us the same way MQ did.

We may not be on the same accounts in the north... - CyberlandMT

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Our QAC sends out a monthly Feedback Data list that supposedly comes from the client. Whether that is where it really comes from or not, I don't know, but I have no reason to not believe it. A friend of mine works as a supervisor in the transcription department of a major hospital and she tells me that indeed they do have someone assigned to do audits on work that has been outsourced. Not sure exactly what qualifies them for that job, if they're an MT or not. The department as a whole has been downsized due to outsourcing.

for once they weren't nit-picky - L&L

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It was the most forgiving audit I've had since 1999. Email if you would like details.

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