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Listen Up Nuance! - ADHI calling for equitable compensation!

Posted: Aug 16, 2012

Interesting...

http://health-information.advanceweb.com/Columns/AHDI-Track/AHDI-Calls-for-Equitable-Compensation-for-Healthcare-Documentation-Specialists.aspx

In addition, listen (or read) up Nuance QA and QC - anon

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This is my favorite quote from this article: "Speech recognition technology works best with an expert healthcare documentation specialist who is able to accurately capture what is being dictated without making structural or major formatting customization changes."

The bottom line. - coffeboy

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Who is going to be responsible for that report/document? A computer? No. We are responsible.

Clarify please coffeboy - anon

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The gist of that particular quote was not to over-edit.

Obviously it was not in referrence to "real" errors.

Regarding statement from AHDI - AnnieOakley

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What I gleaned from this editorial was that we are going to paid by the hour in the near future. Our company sent out a memo recently mentioning other positions in the company that an MT could possibly move into. This was mentioned in the ADHI editorial as well. But this could be a double-edged sword. Stay in MT and you stay at low pay. Move into different position, you might make more, but how many positions are there? Again it is de-valuing the skills we have. This is the way I see it. I hope I am wrong and that we all get raises and fair bonuses, but I would be the Queen of Naivety if I truly believed that.

what I got was this - sm

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with all the changes in clinical documentation and more patients due to the affordable health care act there maybe a shortage in doctors and/or doctors may have less time to input patient data meaning clinical documentation specialists will be needed more than ever.

The article mentioned that although traditionally MTs (clinical documentation specialists) have traditionally been paid by the line, with changes in technology the pay needs to be more "equitable" meaning, reasonable and fair. They are simply implying that the traditional line per hour pay may not work with the changes ahead and they need to come up with a fair and reasonable standard by which the MTs will be paid. They did mention a few times our knowledge and skills so I guess we will have to wait and see.

Its good to know that we will still be around and needed more than ever, but the question is..what will pay be like.

this is what they are saying - but when and what are they going to do about it?

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While I would love for our pay scale to change and for us to actually be compensated for our skills and knowledge, I would be selling myself short sitting here thinking oh its going to happen b/c AHDI suggested this. I'm not going to hold my breath until I see actual changes. We sit here day in and day out doing the majority of our job for free, is that going to change. Even if they do give us an hourly wage, would it be a fair hourly wage, b/c the companies that do pay hourly are only paying about $12 an hour. Um who goes to college and works in the field for years to only make $12 an hour. They feel this is fair b/c in all their eyes the VR is to make our jobs easier, which is far from the truth. There are federal standards for minimum wage, why is it that our job, which requires higher education and continuing education is only valued at minimum wage or not too much higher. Since I have worked as an MT my wages have significantly gone down and not up, this is reverse from most jobs in America. Even a person working at Target gets a raise at least once a year. I have been in the MT field for years and my pay has dropped.

Head Honchos, again I ask Hows It Working For Ya - BottomLine

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You have run off (most) of your seasoned and experienced MTs and are relying on the sheer numbers of eager new MTs coming out of your schools. (No slam intended on new folks.)

This business just is what it is, and experience counts when one must handle multiple accounts, confusing demographic information, keep track of multiple different *account specifics*, and particular physician perks.

So with your largely inexperienced staff of MTs, and accounts across the board IN THE RED on a consistent basis,

How's It Working For You?

How happy are your clients (the ones that write your paychecks)? Are they tickled pink that you cannot fulfill your obligations and promises to them on a timely basis?

Pay the MTs that have proven their worth statistically with production numbers, earnings, and dependability.

Don't be so damn greedy. Share the Love.
1, Consistency. They are there

I LOVE THIS!!! - FEDUPMT2

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Does anyone really care that there are 900 reports waiting? I don't. - mt2long

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Start with paying us a decent salary and more of us might care.

My deep distrust of AHDI makes me wonder why now? - They championed cpl, now they want hourly? sm

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You can't take what they say at face value, ever. One has to wonder what they think is in it for them, and what their ulterior motive is THIS time?

Possible Reason For ADHI turnaround? - Hadtoretiretooyoung

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Transcriptionists cannot afford to belong toADHI anymore, not at 4 and 8 cents a line minus taxes and health insurance.

Listen Up Nuance! - Here ya go!

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What caught my eye in this article is this excerpt below and I agree 100%. Something has got to be done about MTs making minimum wage, this is ridiculous.

"For these new roles, production-based compensation, commonly used in traditional medical transcription and speech recognition editing, is no longer appropriate or applicable. Compensation models for healthcare documentation specialists must be developed to reflect the wide variety of skills and knowledge required to perform the job duties and related tasks."

The MTSOs want the "skills and knowledge" but they - want to pay clerk-typist wages..

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This is a knowledge job. It's time we stopped allowing ourselves to be treated like minimum-wage clerk-typists.

It doesn't matter how a line of medical text is generated. It takes the same amount of KNOWLEDGE to edit a line as it does to transcribe it.

And, it makes no difference either whether the line does or does not contain errors - it requires the same degree of knowledge to know whether a line of text is accurate or whether it is not. "Right" or "wrong" are just two sides of the same coin (meaning, the same knowledge is involved).

good point - Cassie

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For some reason I never looked at it like that and just accepted what was given to us as far as pay, meaning edit is worth less. Although I complain that edits are horrible and really need retyped, I never looked at it from that point of view. Regardless, an all type or an edit does require the same amount of knowledge.

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