data processing...medical charges
Posted By: finagle on 2005-08-28
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okay, so I've been doing medical data processing for a clinic for the past four months and the office lifestyle is NOT for me. Does anyone have information on work at home medical billing? I sure would like a nudge in the right direction. Thanks!
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Medical records are data driven. Numerals are data.
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it is likely they are processing your medical
claims.
Medical transcription isn't data entry, but you can
check with Career Builder and Monster and see what they have, you can Google for it and see if there is a board like this for data entry.
IRS is not processing ANY tax returns sm
until at least Feb 11, when the new software is in place. You may be talking about and H.R. Block type place that figures you return, for a price, then cuts you a check. But IRS not sending checks or processing until Feb 11.
Please name a post office processing
We are talking about handling mail for the US postal service. Not any other entity. Inmates are not allowed to handle mail anywhere in the United States. It is absolutely forbidden by the federal government. Name a center where inmates handle mail.
Did you check your processing speed?
I would see how fast your processing speed is through your internet company. My eScription got really slow for a while and the cable company came out and replaced something and now it is super fast. I have an "older" computer too. Pentium III, 797 MHz, 384 MB of RAM.
Does your word processing program
have "search and replace" feature? That should do what you want.
They hand your credit card #'s when processing orders - why not mail?
It is common knowledge inmates work by processing internet and catalog orders. They hand credit card numbers every day. How can you even trust to place an order anymore, not knowing who is actually processing your order? It is surprising what inmates are allowed to do. Some live better than us behind bars!
Vista is just the operating system. You buy the word processing software separate...sm...
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data entry
Has anyone done Data Entry jobs from home? Thanks
I use Northstar Data .... I think they are
at www.MTFTP.com
I started using them in April, and their website and FTP are really easy to use. My doctors were new to digital, as was I, and we picked it up quickly.
hth!
We are more than data entry BUT...
Yes, they will still need us to copyedit and clean up the voice recognition and offshore "crude" product, but from what I've read on these boards, there's not going to be much money in this for MTs.
I too am thinking of leaving MT for another field. This summer my 15-year-old son got his first summer job as basically an unskilled laborer at minimum wage, and he was making quite a bit more per hour as I ended up getting, turning an Indy 500 ESL's mishmash into a perfect operative report. The day I learned that, I decided to start rethinking my career choices.
By the way, I'm one more experienced MT who finds it mind-boggling that people are still out there debating the merits of the various MT schools out there. Wake up and smell the coffee, people!
Backup data?
I'm glad this subject came up as we do some traveling and I was just thinking about this as well. How is the best way to back up the data? Just use a CD or someone mentioned a flash drive external hard drive? Don't know much about this new fangled technology, so am finding this very interesting and helpful. Thanks for the info.
data entry
I agree. But don't you know, there's always someone lurking in front of their keybord waiting to belittle someone else's from-the-heart question??
That study used very old data.
EHR has come a long way since 2004.
SAVING MY DATA
I have an external hard drive and want to save my data from my old computer to my new computer. How exactly do i do that.
Copying data
Can anybody say how to copy a large amount of data to a DVD without having to copy one page at a time. It's a training program that I'm not going to be able to finish before the time runs out. Since I paid for it, I want to be able to have it available to study on my own. Thanks.
Charges
I would really like to see the opinion of some of those who are so upset to see what they would do if they were running a MTSO and what they would charge to the client, pay the transcriptionist, pay for overhead, pay for QA and see what kind of a profit they would make. I have only a small company and still have to take 30% plus type myself to make it worth while to cover the "non billable" hours that I put it. So if you are upset at getting only 9 cents per line what would you do if you ran the company?
charges
 Tapes just switching to digital, depending on their volume 11.5 to 12.5 gross line. I pick up and deliver, cut chart notes apart. But great accounts and would not charge more as don't want to lose them. Gross 55K per year with 6 docs. Put in about 24 - 26 hours per week with delivery, printing, etc. Pay on time, Christmas bonus, and have been with me for 5 to 15 years.
Charges
At least this company is being up front and telling you what they are charging the company and you do not have to wonder what they make off the account. If you are making .975 per line that is pretty good pay for a sub/IC especially if you have the same account/docs, etc and can get down your shortcuts. I am upfront with most of my subs/IC and tell them what portion I take for myself if they ask. Don't hide anything. You do not get rich off of having subs working for you when you pay a fair wage and that is why I expect good quality work.
Patti
Charges
I have done seminars, interviews, and court proceedings as they use a tape recorder or a CD recorder now. I charge a little more than my regular accounts as it is a one time shot but still charge 11 to 13 cents per gross line depending on the difficulty of the tapes/digital file.s
Patti
charges
Even though they pay most of your expenses, our cost of living has gone up. It was hard for me to raise mine but I did and they did not say anything. I try to figure out what I am making an hour and see how that goes. But I hate raising 0.05 per line and so I usually do 1 cent every 2-3 years. I have more expenses that you but still like I said the cost of living still goes up and I am sure that they have raised their rates in the past two years. But again, it all boils down to what you are making per hour and if that is okay with you then keep it and raise it if you are happy. I still charge pretty low according the standards on this board but I make good money per hour and just cannot justify raising it to the 15 to 16 cpl if I am comfortable with what I am making per hour. I am the one that I have to live with.
Patti
PA charges ..
I cannot tell you who might have the information, but I do know that the State of PA charges a tax for MT services. You might want to call their Dept. of Revenue and inquire .. it would not be pleasant to get hit with it down the road and you know that you are then guilty without recourse save for paying!
charges
Lots of time with a speciality you will be able to set up a lot of templates, normals or wharevery you call them as they do the same thing or say the same thing over and over. So with that in mind, I try to figure out what I need to make hourly and figure that out into a cpl. It will be slower at first but as you get going you will make more since you will be used to the docs, etc. I keep my charges lower than a lot but I make enough per hour to cover all my cost. Out here in Oregon there are people charging .15 to .18 cpl but I am still at .115 to .12 cpl and I make good money and have good accounts. But I am also gross line. That is how I started out 18 years ago and have kept it that way and since two of my accounts have been with me for those 18 years they know no difference. Again, look at the big picture and see what you need to make. With all of the Expanders that we have now and the normals, etc. especially for clinic notes and repetitive docs, you can make good money at 11 to 12 cpl. Slower at first but it will get better. Good luck.
Charges
Again more info is needed when asking this question. Need to know gross or character per line, margins, font used,tTAT, etc. Are you contracting with a MTSO company or the insurance company? Sometimes they let you know what they will be paying you. What type of reports? Tapes or voice files? Do you print or send back E-mail or what? Are they interviews or finished reports? You need to get samples of the work, ask a few more questions unless you know the above answers already. But BALLPARK figure would be 0.12 to 0.14 per line but again depends on gross versus cpl and what type of reports. I never quote a price without seeing what I will be typing. Do a search as this subject has come up many, many times. Patti
charges, TAT
Charge for pick up and delivery is in my cpl charge. I do 24 hour TAT. I have a locked briefcase I put the tapes in, in the trunk of the car if I stop anywhere. Not many allow 48 TAT at least to my knowledge. You pick up Friday's tape on Monday and return on Tues.
Charges
I do daily pick up and delivery, print, cut apart chart notes on sticky paper, envelopes, and charge .125 cpl. But this is Oregon and might be a little lower. But I look more at what I am making per hour and I can average 400 to 500 lines per hour depending on how many consults, OPs, that I have. If I suddenly went to .16 cpl I think that they would be looking for someone else. Perhaps not. But I make good money and cannot justify raising it right now. But go for it all they can say is "no, we will look elsewhere". But again figure out what you make per hour and see how that goes. Never did like charging by the page. Good luck, let us know what they say.
Charges
Can you get copies of the templates or a report to see how many lines there are or an approximate time to do a report. Also will you have to retype the templates or will he give them to you? Also you don't know how many he will make minor changes so that could be time consuming. But I would probably do per page or report making sure that you equal out to $20 to $25 per hour. When doing hourly they are always questioning if that time was spent and with page or report, there is no question. But again without actually doing one, you are shooting in the dark for a price and be sure that he knows that the price could change if you find it is more work that it sounds. Like I said, many templates are changed and sometimes that takes time and can screw up an entire report. Good luck.
Charges....sm
Be careful, when you go over bytes that they allow you, they usually charge a per byte used to connect to the internet......and it can get VERY expensive if you use the net a lot.
Here's some interesting AAMT data...
According to the October 2005 JAMT financial reportings:
Revenues from membership in 2003: $1,053,516.
Revenues from membership in 2004: $ 920,681.
You'd think they'd get the idea with so many people not renewing memberships due to their stance on overseas work - especially since it's hitting them hard in the wallet!
Data Entry Jobs
Does anyone know where I can find information about legitamit companies that hire for data entry work at home. Looking for my daughter, who wants to stay home with her small child. Thanks!
Is it transcribing or data entry?
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Data Hand keyboard
I just received my new Data Hand keyboard and am starting to use it. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has used one of these. Thanks.
Ours is "diagnostic data" and includes it all.NM
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Data entry position
My post did show so I will ask again...does anyone know where I can find a listing of jobs for data entry positions?
certainly not data entry or typing,
my reward, aside from pay, is satisfaction that i am doing a very specialized job in an excellent manner. after 34 years, it seems more tedious and difficult, but i enjoy the work.
Line charges
I had this done to me as well. From experience 1) be aware she will dump you. 2) Look for another account. 3) Be the dumper instead of the dumpee. Just go along to get along and get rid of them.
How are other MTs doing phone charges?..sm
With AT&T/SBC telling some of us it will now be 3 or 5 cents per minute because we are a business, how are MTs being able to afford paying anywhere from 400 to 600 per month in phone charges?
How are others doing this? I know i would literally have to take on more work just to pay that bill.
Any feedback on what others do....
Dot
Phone charges
I don't know what anyone else is doing, but I'm contacting Lisa Madigan, Dick Durbin, and Barack Obama. I was told by SBC's business office that I am not a business.
phone charges
But you are using it to generate an income and they will consider that a business. Sorry that is the way that they think -- you are not conducting personal matters but matters to generate an income. Do you deduct your phone charges on your income tax form? This is not the way I think but they way that they think. I do not use my phone anymore than a residential but because I am an independent contractor, I must register as a business and my Comcast cable Internet Provider, my phone line is double that of a residential person -- have been paying double for almost 20 years. They will get every and any penny that they can.
They were federal charges
go to a halfway house first, but I thought surely that the prison could tell me something, if that was the case?! They just said he was out of custody and that's all they could tell me. Thanks for the encouragement...it's appreciated!
AT&T/C-phone charges
My advice, get rid of AT&T, they suddenly, after taking over SBC, wanted to charge me 10 cents per telephone use while using my C-phone, said it was not considered a telephone call, but that data was being sent over line, so, another one bites the dust with them..am now with "WOW" for a 1/3 the cost and is great service.
Can I write off all my DSL charges
on taxes. I assumed I could, but now somebody is telling me not if I use it for personal stuff that I would have to figure out how much I used it for personal, and how much I used it for work. Of course I wouldn't have DSL if work did not require it, so why should I not be able to write off the whole cost.
And do you know charges different according to where you live?
My rates for landline very high as compared to a person I know in smaller town, same thing, theirs was less than 20 and mine more than 40. Asked person at AT&T about this and waa told yes, it does make a difference in the charges.
MTSO charges
I do not believe that no one on this board knows how much is charged - I believe no one wants to say - I think that MTs, either employees or ICs would leave under great numbers if all was known about any MTSO. I knew of one company that charged the client $25 per hour during the week and $27.50 on the weekends - that was to work in-house - some of the MTs were making $17.50 straight - weekday or weekend while others were making $11.00 - so you see - it varies and the MTSO's main concern is how much they are making - not so much what the MT is making - which is why we no longer make the money we used to - plus the outsourcing - but I know that it takes a lot more time to make any money than it used to.
really, that's what offshore charges?
are you kidding??? I work for a hospital in California and get paid 10 cents per 65 character line... i would hope that I am getting paid more than ESL workers!
How can I record patient data as fast as possible
Radiology patients, so reports are short most often. We have to log two several digit numbers, the types of exams (chest/abdomen) dates. We have sheets to do this on but am thinking I should keep Wordpad open and type in there.
Any ideas on how I can do this and not lose momentum or time? I do about 100 exams a day.
Thanks!
Of course, it is only as good as the people entering the data...
Also, when computers make mistakes, or are hit with malicious worms or viruses, etc., it could be devastating, could it not?
Also, more and more lately we are noticing actually a lot more mistakes with things that are automated, and once there is an error, it has been extremely difficult to get it corrected. Such as - errors at the DMV (?), errors in our car computer (? - again, it is always a mystery when trying to get things fixed), lets see, then there is the mixup with our phone number that belongs to about three other people (still not fixed because we are told it is all done on computer (?)...
Also, who takes responsiblity when there is an error, because with everything automated, there seems to be little or no accountability - you can hardly get through to real people in a lot of businesses today.
The idea of technology is awesome; however human error will always have an affect...
my humble opinion and just an observation. most information still has to be entered by humans. perhaps we will be obsolete.
It's putting criminal data into the computer and
no ESLs to listen to!
I'd like to see hard data before buying into that belief
I will blast a poorly performing QA'er all day long. Someone with something of substance to offer in critiquing my work is someone I communicate with and have nothing but respect and praise to give. I won't get into a snit about the use of too many or too few commas, but a QA'er who fills in a blank I sent in for a second ear and fills it with something incorrect IS someone who holds no respect in my eyes. That is the person I'll blast all day.
Darn. I was not quiet. Wonder what this will do to my image on the board?
You purchase the plans which allow so much data to be transferred.
I paid for the $59.99 monthly package, which is a lot of data usuage and have used programs such as Dictaphone ExText and Escription on the road. It seems like someone told me you'd have to pretty much be on it nonstop to use up all the data allowance but you can check it out here..http://b2b.vzw.com/broadband/bbapccard.html
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