Compensation for Medical Transcriptionists

I just came across this on the AHDI site, what used to be AAMT, in an article with the above title: "It is a concern of AHDI that medical transcription professionals are often viewed by their employers and the clients they serve as keyboard specialists who have a familiarity with medical terminology which enables them to transcribe dictated reports for an originator's signature.  In contrast, it is the view of AHDI that keyboarding and transcription should not be confused. Medical transcription involves translation from oral to written in order to generate a record of a patient's healthcare documentation. AHDI views medical transcription as a medical language specialty which requires medical knowledge and understanding, sound judgment, deductive reasoning, and the ability to detect inconsistencies in medical dictation." You can read the rest here:

http://www.ahdionline.org/scriptcontent/rjobcomp.cfm

Are they actually going to fight for better wages, or is this just a ploy to get people to join?

• Compensation for Medical Transcriptionists - Barry Wattss
  • I joined in the 70's because their goal then was professional wages. - mimi
    • Surprising - Lillybelle
    • LOL... - Barry Wattss
    • THEIR pro wages paid with membership fees. - MTs?? What are those? nm
  • need help - Jackie Revis
    • To help us we use education, research and - practice, practice, practice. nm
      • I agree that what you need is plenty of practice - Barry Watts
  • What future demand is there for higher-skilled MTs? Inquiring mind wants to know. SM - MissIndigo
    • Besides, most coding is billing work. Any better possibilities? NM - MissIndigo
    • Is the future of coding... - Barry Wattss
      • Future of medical coding is good - sam
      • yes - ...
        • That's what I was afraid of... - Barry Wattss
  • They want standarized testing, for a large fee. - Supposedly that will help raise pay.

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Whoever says that needs to take a look at the job board and the posting that has over 1,000 views.

There are no transcriptionists looking for jobs either.

We are looking for experienced Medical Transcriptionists in the US Virgin Islands.

Please visit our web site and contact me.  http://www.globalmedicaldata.com

Thanks.

Bob

Hourly charge.

The prospective client can then either pay what you're asking or find someone who is more in line with what they can afford or are willing to pay.

As long as I'm an IC and setting my own rate, VBC is not my line standard and I would not agree with any statement that it is the standard of the future.

If it is just a matter of maintaining 98% accuracy with QA, then there is no problem.  My concerns were with changes in the structure of the payment method to the MT, MedQuist's interpretation of a line count, what constitutes a line, as MedQuist is no longer adhering AAMT's line count standard, etc. All of this would directly affect the MT.  Thanks again for all of your responses.

and Tessier's The Surgical Word Book, 3rd edition.  Books you could buy used I would say would be Stedman's Pathology and Lab Medicine and Cardiology/Pulmonary word book.  These are all the books I use the most during my day.  You could buy other speciality word books as you need them and could probably go used with those.

I wouldn't bother with buying a drug book, new editions come out every year and I just stick to the FDA website and RXList as my drug references.

Also FYI, not a book, but I use my Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictationary a lot.  It's easier to open the program than it is to pick up a huge 30-pound dictionary.

Does anyone transcribe for a vet?  How did you get in to this area of transcription?  It sounds like it would be interesting.  Maybe they just have their secretaries transcribe.  Thoughts on this.

Thanks!

I transcribe all ops, and I have an oral/maxillofacial surgeon, but no samples on him.  Is there anyone doing this type of transcription who might be able to send me a few good samples of dental surgeries? 

Thanks. 

Any other MTs doing ophthalmology?  I'm working for docs who are on the east coast.  I get so FRUSTRATED because the reports are so short I feel like I'm starting and stopping all the time.  I've done 33 files today for a whopping 600-ish lines!  Great docs, easy to understand, mainly letters to the PCPs.  Most of my files are easily less than 3 minutes long and when I do get a long one, he can't make up his mind so I end up erasing and retyping, and STILL don't get a decent line count. 

Just looking for a sympathetic ear from another Ophth MT.  I feel like I'm in a different world than these other guys I read about on here! 

I would love to know - I have a question.

thanks!

Please help! We are a group of psychiatric transcriptions working for a hospital who have been bought out by another hospital. We had no line count or QA. Now the new hospital has QA and wants us to type minimum 1500 lines a day. We type assessments, h/p, progress notes, consults, neuro and psychologicals. We have many foreign docs who ramble on. We also work on Dolby transcription and dictation system.  Their medical people are required 1000 lines per day and x-rays 2000 lines. We don't feel like any of us can reach this. Are they asking too much?