Advance for Health Information Professionals. Mostly geared toward coders now. nm

• Isnt there a transcription paper/magazine that comes out monthly?? - Kat
  • I used to get Perspectives from the HPI people. It was a quarterly MT mag. - Tinks
    • It's an e-zine that you download for free and read. It's still quarterly. Just in case anyon - Tinks
      • anyone was curious. (Got cut off! I hate that!) - Tinks
  • Were you thinking of MT Monthly.....see link inside - AllieCat
  • Do you mean the Journal of AAMT? I believe it comes with sm - nm
  • Advance for Health Information Professionals. Mostly geared toward coders now. nm - U can read it online, too..nm

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specifically identifies the patient, i.e. name, MRN, SSN, account numbers, etc.  As long as all identifying information is removed from a report, it poses no HIPAA violation to keep it on file.  Furthermore, as an employee of the hospital in the medical transcription department and charged with peforming QA, I have legitimate reasons to access a patient's chart.  HIPAA says so.

Go back and read your HIPAA laws again.

Anyone have any info on billing and coding that would help me choose a school or program, also if there is opportunity to work from home?

In my own experience, my daughter was upset all the time, crying, acting out, etc.  I was receiving phone calls quite often, but I knew my daughter.  She was in th 4th grade already.  I met with teacher it was only about 2 months into the school year.  It was actually the teacher my daughter had, who was new to the area and the district and seem very timid.  I changed her to a teacher who I knew from before with her brothers and was outgoing, gave lots of praise to all the children and really interested in the kids.  My daughter was back to herself.. 

I have also had problems with the principals, and one was a psychologist.  They will try to "bully" you, so you have to stand up for your children.  I even had them take off a suspension on her record because it was unfair, as I had many times spoke with the principal about some girls teasing my daughter and hitting her many times and my daughter  never did anything and finally was tired of it and hit back and she was suspended.  All the other times the other girls never were suspended but they were just talk to.   The principal never took the time to speak to the kids before this happened.  She just thought my child had issues, but in the end I showed her that my child did not have issues. 

Anyway, my older son has ADHD, so it took a teacher who was patient, caring, and who expand the mind of the children not just classify the children with learning disabilities as "worthless" and put them aside. 

I have walked into class without notice to see what is going on; I have stayed to help out for awhile. 

If you do not get anywhere with the school officials, speak with the superintendent; go up the ladder, make waves.  Make sure to document everything, person you spoke to, time, date, etc.  Believe me this will help enormously.

We have to be there for our children.  We also need to remember they are imperfect, they will also make mistakes and they do need to take the consequences of their actions. 

A doctor may say the patient has hypertension as a diagnosis, but the reality is there are a bunch of different codes for hypertension.  There is no such thing in coding as plain old hypertension.

Same with certain procedures.  There is a code for this procedure and a code for that procedure.  BUT if you do this procedure WITH that procedure, then there is a whole nother code for that.

In order to have coding fully automated you would have to have software that could scan a patient's eletronic medical record record and then decide which diagnosis of hypertension best meets this patient's history and then assign the correct code.  Plus with the enormous fines for medicare fraud and upcoding, no hospital is going to trust a computer to coding.  Coders will probably end up editing codes same as we edit transcription from VR.  Our jobs don't just disappear, they evolve.

I am wondering what it takes to advance to another position in the MT field.  I've been an MT for about 13 years, acute care for 12 of those years.  I'm tired of typing and have done QA as well, but the pay is horrible.  What does it take to move up the ladder to another position, such as MT supervisor or account manager?  I'm just curious. I know there are probably many more qualified people than I out there for any such position, but curiosity has got me as to the general qualifications and average salaries of each.  Anyone know?  Thanks....

about how wonderful it is to train Indians to do our job.  OH YAAAYYY, LET'S HERE IT FOR SPHERIS AND HEALTHSCRIBE   Let's give a big whoopie and cheer them on while they continue to post for transcriptionists on this board and yet outsource and TRAIN Indians to do our job.  I guess I'm angry about the article on other levels, such as the fact that it seems that Advance magazine is constantly promoting offshore transcription.  This is not the first time they have printed articles like this. 

Our hospital used Spheris and Cbay and we spent hours up hours redoing the reports, yet these companies got paid in full.  Where is the logic in that?  Thank God, administration wised up and brought the work back in.  Now we can go back to doing what we've always done ... OUR OWN TRANSCRIPTION ACCURATELY!

Cover story:  Are MTs Paid Fairly.  This story needs rebuttals.  (I don't know if I spelled that right -- too mad to look it up.)  There is another article about MTing as well as some good letters to the editor.  No, I didn't write them.  Not promoting self.

Look, this magazine wants feedback.  Controversy creates publicity which creates readership.  Please think about sending your own letters to the editor.  Write what you write here.  Let more people involved in our field know your thoughts whether they be MTs or not. 

No, I don't work for ADVANCE.  I'm just an MT just like most of you.  I just want our voices to be heard by more people who call the shots that affect us.  This is one venue.  Even if you don't like the publication, fight back and make your voices heard!!!  What a lot of you write here would be fantastic letters to the Editor which would reach a wider spectrum of our associates than this forum for MTs.  We've got to keep the topic of the MT situation HOT in the media.  You can submit articles to them as well.  Get busy, PLEASE!!

I will  write a letter...