so many rules, so little time

I had always thought that the dictator received an automatic copy but in checking the MQ rules/standards, I don't see this. Does anyone know for sure? Should we copy the dictator if requested? ...

Does anybody else get emails of updated account specs or just in general about how this is now changing in the MT world and things such as hyphens are being phased out, among other changes to make the document "more readable". I wonder...all these changes to how we are supposed to do our jobs, yet the only changes to what we are paid to do our job is a negative with pays dropping instead of going up. I say it here and I can say it so many times, if somebody can sit in an office and c ...

When a consultant's office calls the referred patient, is that office allowed to say the name of their office? Ex: Got a call from a GI office for my husband. The woman gave her first name and said she needed his medical hx before she could schedule an appointment. I asked what office she was from, and she said she couldn't say because of HIPAA but that it was a referral from his PCP. Is it true that because of HIPAA we can't even know who's ...

used to be when we ran out of work we could chose to make up time or take PTO, this was even at Thanksgiving. Now we get the email that after waiting 6 mins some of you are taking PTO, but now we can't do this. Now we are supposed to flex. So just because the "lead" lets toooooo many people off I'm supposed to just keep checking and checking, that's great, i'll just do that after cooking our dinner and watching the kids open gifts and if I get work it'l ...

I don't know what the AAMT book of style does with regards to typing out numbers such as in this sentence: I provided this patient and her 2 daughters with education regarding her diagnosis and treatment options. Would you use numerals for "2" daughters in this case or would you type out "two"??? ...

Couldn't we just leave a note on any report with a cc to "please verify physician name for copy" which would then take the burden off of our shoulders? Not a QA marker, but by doing Ctrl + Shift + Q. I plan on leaving a note for anything that is questionable at all, ie., only last name given, unclear, cannot verify, whatever... I am not going down with them. Fire me for it, then I will file for unemployment and win because they cannot fire you for a doctors mistake and then I might ...

Okay, I got a ding today from my extremely sweet and helpful QATL. It seems I did not send as a cc a requesting physician dictated. I looked at the report and I did enter the requesting physician in the ADT and the body of the report. I thought if they did not specifically request a cc be sent, then you did not. Am I wrong? Old dog needs help. Also, I thought if the Req Physician was in the ADT it automatically received a carbon copy.. Hmmm.. ...

D-dimer is negative, making a pulmonary embolus unlikely by _______rules? s/l Kline, Klein, Cline rules?? ...

There are some things that don't make sense to me in regard to certain rules for companies. At my company, when you send something to QA, you have to put a blank and the number where it is, but if we think something "sounds" like something we cannot put that in because the QA person could hear what we are hearing and not really hear what is being said. Now, what in the heck is VR then? Sometimes when you see text presented on screen it may sound like what you are seeing.&n ...

I was wondering if anyone had any knowledge in regard to HIPAA violations and whether certain rules apply only in certain circumstances. I had a workers comp claim and had my IME closing exam in March. There were problems - the doctor assumed that he knew it all, didn't take any history from me and then rushed me through the exam and closed my claim. I wasn't happy with the way the exam was conducted, and then on reading my exam report I found a number of mistakes, so ...

Our department was recently "onboarded" by a transcription service where we are now paid by the line. We have had several days where we had "mandatory OT" where the boss would email and tell everyone they needed to do 1.5 hours of OT that day. In my state, VT, the law says if you are required to work over 8 hours in a day you have to be paid OT pay. Does anyone know how this works for pay-by-line work? I know many of the practices of this company are questionable and ...

Number rules. I've been doing this a long time...but I just want to ask the group. If there are no account-specific rules, is this sentence correct? "He has had 5 episodes since 08/10/2001." I think I'm correct, at least this is how I've been doing it. What does the new BOS say? I quit MQ/MM and don't have the current edition. Thanks ...

I know that according to AAMT we are not supposed to put abbreviations in the Impression/Diagnoses sections, but does that include ALL abbreviations? Or just ones pertaining to diseases? For instance, are we supposed to spell out MRI in the impression? Or just diseases, like PUD or COPD? I'm a bit confused because I put "MRI" in the impression and QA left that as is, but I also put "PT" and they expanded it out to "physical therapy." Does anyone know? Thanks in a ...

The hopeful folks....did you forget we have not even started with the new guidelines by which our work will be audited at a yet unspecified date? You may be feeling all warm and comfy right now with your 99.9% to 100% reviews. I would not be counting on that. I've had plenty of those, too, and regularly achieved the quarterly bonus up until recently. So, I work 25 hours, and they audited 1 report only with 1 error and I am at a tad over 98%. Meanwhile, I pended 4 jobs and that ...

Is there anyone available to us for non-emergency questions? If we have a BOS question or a verbatim issue, is there anyone there for us? (Yes, I received that email earlier in the week to not bother anyone. But really??) ...

Does anyone know the rules on how many jobs you're allowed to abandon or break from?? Thanks. ...

Can someone tell me what are the latest rules on typing numbers? Do you type 3rd or third? Thank you!! ...

For example, if the doctor says platelets 277, then that's why you type. Later on down the road, knock points off my score for typing 277, claiming that we are supposed to type 277,000. Why does stuff like this ALWAYS seem to happen? Then I get points off my score because two different QAs are telling me 2 different things. I can't take this anymore. The last 3 jobs I have had were like this. I'm sick of getting yelled at and points taken off ...

It is obvious that those in charge have NEVER typed a word and have no idea what transcription is all about. They need to go on Undercover Boss and spend one day at the computer and listen to what we listen to and then tell me we need to be 99% accurate. What a joke! ...

Don't you just love the communication at Nuance? Just received an Email regarding new QA rules (new hoops to jump through for bonus), so disgusted I just deleted the message. Bringing the E5 *in line with the rest of NTS*? I don't want to know how much better and faster we are all supposed to be with WHATEVER technology you push out.... I just wanta say that some of you people in management had better learn to transcribe. And WTH is the learning module "Speak Hawaiian"....what ...

Is there a site or forum somewhere that updates on new grammar and punctuation rules since they change from time to time? ...

and noticed it was talking about a breach. This is something that happened the other day and under the new law, am I supposed to report a scenerio like this? I had a physician who told me this patient's social security number. There is no place to include that on their report, nor has it ever been with this particular company so I just heard and that was it. Would I be, as a business associate soon to be, required to inform someone about this, like ratting on this physician? ...

Hello, We are preparing to switch to editing and are working on a fair guidelines for the MTs. What are the industry standards of expections for things such as correcting if a dictator says something like "laboratory studies" and the draft comes through as "laboratory data" - do you correct it or leave it? What about things like numbers that begin a sentence? Correct or let it go? Any advice you can give would be appreciated. ...

I am currently looking for a new online job. I have been doing medical transcription for nine years now but work for a small hospital. I do not currently have, nor does my hospital require, the AAMT book of style to be the set rules for our transcription department. We still use q.h.s. etc. I recently had a job interview but blew it because the company requires their MTs to know the latest AAMT book of style front and back. Is this a big deal to know this book word for word? Wonderin ...

Hi, I need a quick check on HIPAA rules. With respect to the health care debate, I want to write to my senator, etc., about a situation with a patient I transcribed on. The only info. I intend to give is that the patient was a: Russian immigrant, on welfare and receiving Medicaid benefits--when he should not have. He and his "sponsor(s)" was responsible for his care and living expenses. Further, I transcribed a note in which the doctor said that this patient wanted to re-sched ...

My hospital employs Webmedx for overflow work. We have an unusual amount of work so Wmx has been assigning new MTs to us. Not sure if they are just new to our account or new to the company. I realize many companies ask MTs to type verbatim, but it seems the MTs are not using common sense... stuff like typing "okay and next problem" instead of typing the next number in the list and just not paying attention to where commas and periods should go in the sentence, leaving ...

If anyone knows of a hospital, clinic, or large practice offering remote full-time or part-time employee positions, I would really appreciate an email. I have the sudden need to help support a family member long term (in addition to myself) and really need to find a long-term remote employee position for the stability. Yes, I watch all the various employment sites and even individual hospital sites, but I was hoping that maybe, just maybe someone who works for a hospital that does th ...

so many rules, so little time - phatty

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