Question on transcription by chart...
Posted By: TIA on 2008-05-22
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I have a doc I have been typing for for years. He HATES dictating lol Rt now he has stacks of patients on his desk and I am getting ready to go on vacation, but there is no way he will dictate before I leave. These would just be short orthopedic FUs, Im wondering if any of you have gone by the chart or the diagnosis and the prior note and typed a note for the patient. Does this make sense? lol Anyway any suggestions would be great.
Thanks!
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According to the line count chart - sm
at http://www.medicalese.org/line_count.html
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I'm getting paid gross lines right now and my company is going to be using new software which will use 65-char lines. I'm looking for some sort of chart that shows the difference in $.
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