demographic look up
Posted By: justme on 2008-10-02
In Reply to: Does anyone just get so tired of supervisors harping - irritated
I wholeheartedly agreed that the demographic look up stuff is very time consuming and we don't get paid for that. That is something the powers that be don't understand.
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they don't want a certain demographic
Having worked there for 3 years, I believe there's a strategy in place to weed out older MT's or people like us who have 20+ years, who expect to be paid well. They were constantly looking for ways to lower my pay or so it seemed, like account switching. I was making around $4 less an hour by the time I wised up and left. I think they prefer newbies and people with very low expectations.
demographic fill-ins
Top-of-the-line platforms will fill in demogrpahic screen automatically (if docs enter right numbers in the first place), and it's wonderful. Other platforms will fill in partially, and on the ancient and/or practically obsolete ones, the MT has to fill in everything. Also, most of us don't get paid to fill out our production sheets, etc., either. When I worked in-house at 2 hospitals, we did get credit for time away from keyboard, like answering phone, filling in time cards, in-service education, etc.; they had a formula for it and it was pretty fair compensation. Buth, that was then . . .
100% QA is because of demographic issues on the (sm)
client's end that they are trying to sort out. Not because of MT quality issues.
What companies pay for demographic screen?
I am not aware of any, but have not worked for more than a few. Just curious.
If no demographic lookup, no formatting - sm
You can make decent money. Maybe 20 bucks an hour. But that is if you don't do any demographic lookup and no formatting. So the report would like like this:
SUBJECTIVE: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxOBJECTIVE:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxASSESSMENT:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxPLAN:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
SIGNED: DR. PERFECT DICTATOR
Add attending name on demographic page. Not gray
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GRATIS...REQUIRED DEMOGRAPHIC DUTIES...SM
 In addition to their dictations from h---, how do you like working for NOTHING with all their crappy look-ups, MD name researches, demographic work done by MTs for nothing....it's part of the job, they say. Why don't the clients hire their own clerks for that garbage and pay them? But I'm sure the company gets paid for this unpaid work required of MTs...else the client wouldn't be so fussy about it if they got it for nothing. How do you like the QA feedback? Can't decipher the corrections??? Probably neither can the QA. 
I have worked for a company that is SO picky and you have to do so much demographic work
before you ever get to the report. Then you have to switch screens, take out an underscore in 2 places, change the worktype in 3 places if the doc doesn't put it in right, IM someone to look up the name for letters (which is about half my worktype), change screens again to get the billing number, paste it in, and THEN you can start the report. Ahhhhhhh!
All for 1 cent more per line than the reports I do for another place that all I have to do is enter a MRN and I'm there, in the report, and no medications, no demographics. Now one of these days I am going to be brave and just switch altogether to this company.
I wasn't productive on MeriT. Too much time spent entering demographic information...
There is no roster to pull patient names from, so you have to type what the docs say, and those ER docs speak at lightening speed. I spent more time trying to get the patient name right than I did typing the report. I really, really hated that.
If you're with someone that doesn't count the demographic info or headers or footers, line cou
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