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surprised - cj

Posted: Dec 11, 2014

Boy was i surprised today. I work as a coder for a large midwestern teaching hospital network/medical college. We have an aggregate of about 900 inpatient beds, 160-some outpatient clinics on our campus, plus multiple satellite sites, 3 ERs and several urgent cares. a cancer center, a heart hospital, and 2 ambulatory surgery centers - so lots of transcription. Today at our CODING meeting while discussing some upcoming changes to our epic system and striving for improved documentation, it was mentioned that we are going to a new vendor for our transcription - guess who. yup, you got it. none other than Nuance. Oh how I wanted to pipe up and say "you'll be sorry." Anyway, I can tell you Nuance has one huge new account, will be Escription. Tons of work, tons of different dictators (because we are a teaching facility). Not sure what the start date is but I assume it is soon.

Sorry for your current transcriptionists - Need an accounting degree to figure pay

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I feel sorry for all the transcriptionists currently working on that account! They'll be told they're not losing their job, that the can move to Nuance (in other words, the hospital doesn't have to pay unemployment if they don't accept).

Any chance you could tell us which state this hospital is in?

They need to be made aware of this crappy new pay plan to. - mt2

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They'll never make what they are making now.

which state - cj

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it's in wisconsin.

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee? UW Madison wont be - far behind from what I heard. SM

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Am so very sorry to hear about this, as I knew someone who works there. Very sorry for all the UW people.

Is the transcription department currently in-house? - anon

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It may be huge work for a while but then it will dwindle away or it will be as overstaffed as other accounts.

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