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Maybe you would have better luck posting this on the coders board.

Posted By: nm on 2008-07-06
In Reply to: Advice for transition to coding - lolabug

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Please see the Billers & Coders board on the left.
There are many who may be able to help you there!

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and yet they are posting on MT board!
and all that hard work paid off so they could spend time with the riff-raft on MT board. sweet. i bet her parents are real proud of all that money they spent on her education. hee.
Posting on this board sm
I agree with the moderator and the thing that bothers me is that some take up so much of some of the boards, that they seem to "overcome" and this is why in desperation, some say, "Please help me on".....xyz board because they know the board they should be posting on has only one or two posters. Albeit, these posters are helpful also, but don't you think it would be wise to allow only a certain number of posts per day on certain boards to allow someone else to get a word in edgewise? Then there would not be so many "lockouts" and posts on the main board. I was in a situation that was of importance to my future business and I did ask for help on a board which seemed to have only one or two posters lately, and I was shut down. This is not a punitive message, just a suggestion that sometimes we are desperate to be helped. This board is an excellent source of communication and I would hate to see anything negative happen here. Just a suggestion. Carry on the good work!
why are you posting on the main board ??
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Did anyone see the posting on the job seeker's board with
the ortho emphysis? 
Did you notice the posting on job board

for the company hiring new grads?  I would be highly suspicious since they didn't give the name of the company.  It may be a legit company, but.....


 


I tried posting on State Board, but is anyone else from TN?

That particular poster is now posting on the new MT board
noticed several posts from her over on that board, which is where I suspect she belongs, to be honest.
might have more luck on the word board.
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CHS Acct Mgr posting on job seeker's board
I have a sneaking suspicion that this is Ascend.  If anyone finds out what company this is, please let us know!
Anybody having problems posting on word board ?

I have tried several times but will not post, some type of error. 


 


I was banned from other board for posting diff.
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Thank you so much for posting that. I just came on the board to look up the going rate for Midwest
and there you were! Thanks so much!!!
Check out the posting on job board titled "mt job".

This is who we're losing our jobs to?!?!


You can be banned for posting these type of questions on this board. At least that is....
what they told me.  Unless they are selective on style/word/abbreviation questions being asked here.  Hmmm.  I wonder.
I am sick of people posting crap on this board and not backing it up. nm.
nm.
RadGuy, I gottah say this. You'll find someone on this board if you keep posting!! Even though mo
married (happily, others not), you just come off as interested in what we do as MTs (because you understand), you are funny, witty, and have a great personality....

I can just see it now....
You are personally invited to a virtual on-line wedding to celebrate.....

LOL!!

You realize you are posting this on the main board, right? Not everyone at this site works for MQ.

Lots of recent posts if you do a Company Board search. Good luck! nm
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coders turned MT? Any of you out sm
there that went from coding to MT? OR, MTs who went into coding? Love coding, hate coding? Not much talk amongst coders anywhere. I just wonder what it is like and if it is worth considering.
Coders or billers?

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?


Amphion hires coders, too.
Don't know about the prospects of looking for a job.  I don't know how much you make doing transcription of what you consider similar.  I think coders probably start out in the mid-20s per year up to 40s with some experience.  There are not as many billing jobs at home as there are remote coding opportunities.  Hope that helps. 
Administrator- the billers/coders
link is not working. Has it been discontinued or will it be up later?
Amphion already uses at-home coders(sm)
Andrews School is the best and will get you your first job.
New coders have the same problem as new MTs....no experience, no job. nm
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How exactly are coders from home paid?
I always wondered how this worked. Thanks!
plenty of coders work from home....nm

Because coding isn't as cut and dried as transcription is. Coders have to research a patient'

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.


Advance for Health Information Professionals. Mostly geared toward coders now. nm
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Not to flame but every day there's posting after posting about how awful MQ is

Why does anyone still work there?


I don't get it.



Good luck. See what luck they're having on the
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And its gonna kill you to post on the Company board rather than the main board?
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This post should be made on the Company board. See that board. Thread locked.
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This post should be made on the Company board. See that board. Thread locked.
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This post should be made on the Ask the Dr. board. OP please repost on that board. Thread locked.
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Post belongs on Ask the Dr. board. OP, respost on that board. Thread locked.
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cherrypicking co-worker issue (meant to post it on this board instead of MQ board) sm...

I need opinions please...I work on a very small account with just a handful of ladies.  Because of the nature of the software (trying not to get too specific here) we can see who is working online and what reports they are working on in real-time...



We have one cherrypicker on the account.  Instead of using FIFO method, she retrieves the reports by author ID - usually picking the better dictators of course.  She knows I busted her and she did admit to it in on our work e-mail (not too bright) which I am saving just in case she gets out of hand - so far I'm still able to make money since really most of the dictators aren't bad. 



But every night it's starting to wear on me since she's screwing up turnaround time.  I don't really want to cause a big uproar being that it is such a small account and I need to work with her almost every night usually one on one.



What would you all do?  I want to handle this as delicate and professional as possible because we can't really afford to lose anyone on this account.  In other words, I refuse to stoop to her level by cherrypicking right back.


My boss has asked me several times why so-and-so does so much more than I do...I just bite my lip at that point but one of these days I think I might explode and just open up a can of worms....


Definitely one of the other board's people who refer to those on this board as "holy rollers,&
Now go ahead and post your reply - I know you're dyin' to!

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Please see my question on company board -posted on wrong board
nm
read recent posts on this board and on the company board
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Post belongs on Ask the Dr. board. See that board. Thread locked.
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Word Board=Help Board. NOT a do the math = figure it out yourself=GOOGLE IT!

What is the Main Board for? All general topics seem to get moved to the new gab board.
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wrong board - rules are pls use WORD board

I meant to say Job-Seekers Board, not Company Board.
No mssg.
When I go to New MT/Students board I am taken to the Abbreviations board. NM
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You put them on the company board, not the main board. They are still there.
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Main board is for MT topics. Non-MT goes to the Gab board! nm
Goldbird
wrong board - try word board
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go to the HOME board and then to Career board on the --sm
left hand side. Inside that is the resume posting site.
here is a link from the New MT board-you might want to read a bit on this board
http://forum.mtstars.com/medical_transcription/v/3/7497.html