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major error - newbutold

Posted: Feb 24, 2015

Need advice, should I even bother? VR transcribed patient is a 9-1/2-year old xxxx. Got major error and corrected to 9-year and 7-month-old xxxx. Is that truly a major error??? Of course it was on short report so completely screwed my percentage, so frustrating and irritating. Let me know what you think guys?

What was dictated? - sm

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If you transcribed as dictated and QA changed it... I would raise hell.

I think the policy is if an age is wrong--sm - anon

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then it is a major error. There is no room for common sense in the way they score things. If the question was, "Is this really going to impact the patient, therefore can I get this revered." The answer would be of course it would have no affect on the patient, yes, reverse it.

However, the question truly is, "Do I have a shot at getting this reversed?" The answer to that is, not bloody likely.

2 yr difference = 3.0, 1year diff = 1.0 nm - anon

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xxx

Thanks - newbutold

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So utterly stupid and depressing. One month off in an age that was VR taken as a major error is insane. All it does is take away money out of my pocket for sure. Of course it is on a super small report not a large one. You can't win with them. No way does this impact anything whatsoever. It is not off by a year just 1 month!!! Absolutely the stupidest thing i have ever heard

VR is programmed to make typos with the hope that we - will NOT catch them.

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MO = The greedy ones want more money.

The greedy are getting greedier.

agree, steroids has appeared recently as - steriods, gee how DOES that happen?

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and a few other words similarly scrambled to keep us on our toes, or overlooked to give an error which lowers pay.

Spellcheck would catch the steroids/steriods - thing; but I do agree

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Nuance is shifty. I doubt they are setting up the VR to make errors BUT I DO believe they KNOW the VR makes errors and are pressuring the QA/QC HARD to FIND those errors, hoping that the MTs will miss enough to keep them off the almighty "grid."

age discrepancy - rock bottom

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If 9-year 7-month-old was dictated, it is a 1 point error.

If 9-1/2-year-old was dictated and the QA/QC put 9-year 7-month-old because that was the patient's real age, I would argue that.

A patient who is 9 years and seven months is 9-1/2 years old. At this age, it is not customary to use anything other than half years.

Further, I have noticed that some dictators do not count the month unless they have lived through the entire month. I've seen others count the month if they have lived into any part of the next month.

Then I've seen dictated 37-7/7 weeks gestation. Not sure what that means. Wouldn't that be 38 weeks, unless of course we were still in the last day of the week?

Regardless this is absolutely splitting hairs so Paul Ricci can get another 5 million bonus.

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