primary..secondary
Posted By: GT on 2005-07-16
In Reply to: Cherry picking - DixieDew
I agree 100%. I was on a great hospital with MQ but they kept calling me to work in my secondary which is one of the worst hospitals I have ever transcribed, IMHO, over 36 years. I frankly got tired of the every day call to work in my secondary so I focused on my secondary, mastered the hard doctors and now my secondary is my primary, a hospital which most dont want to transcribe..so usually there is lots of work and bonuses too..guess **I won**, hun?
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primary and secondary
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Familiar with primary/secondary insurance?sm
My son is currently covered under my husband's (his stepfather) policy. His father and I have talked about changing him to his insurance come open enrollment time later this year because his coverage is now much better than ours. I am considering actually leaving him on my husband's insurance too though, in the hopes that primary/secondary coverage will leave less out of pocket expenses...because it costs us no more or less with him on our policy anyway (same family rate regardless of the number of children covered).
My question is this.....if our policy has a huge deductible then pays at 80/20...and if he was also covered by his father's policy that utilizes office copays...how would that pay? Would his father's policy still not kick in and pay anything until we met the deductible on the primary policy? If so that's pointless...but I don't see the secondary insurance company wanting to pick up all the expenses that the primary won't. Anyone familiar with this situation that has any suggestions? Would be greatly appreciated...very confused. LOL Thanks!
Secondary, tertiary accounts
Have you tried asking for back-up accounts to work on? I think a lot of us have experienced a slower-than-usual summer this year. Even though production may be slower/lower on accounts you don't work on frequently, having secondary, tertiary or more accounts to work on helps to get through the droughts. Good luck.
Training on secondary accounts. Can you refuse?
I have a great primary account. I realize I need a secondary for slow times but the secondary account blows big time. It is laborious (many fields, special requirements that are tedious, etc.). Can I say, "No, but thanks." I reach my required line count with what I have on the primary account even though I am not working a full eight hours. I have taken on a PT job and just fill in empty space by turning around and typing on the other computer when it gets slow.
Any feedback or advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
It is 9 in the morning and my main is out and secondary going out from Amherst. No wonder everyone
is leaving. How can you be paid on incentive with the new pay plan and be out of work and stuck in accounts you never heard of. That has to be the most ignorant stupid thing I have ever heard of. Totally ignorant.
I have diagnosed myself with motivation necrosis, possibly secondary to DQS. SM
I hope it's not terminal. Not old enough to retire yet. Anyone else with this sickness?
Use main pattern, secondary backup patterns when first SM
isn't enough, and then deviate by choosing the "intuitive" choice for an abbreviation that pops into my brain, on the assumption that it'll be the one that pops in when I need the expansion. Usually it is.
I've always had the drop-down list turned off on my ShortHand program, so I can't speak to working that way. A lot of people clearly like it a lot.
However, when editing rather than transcribing, I question how well one can read ahead for corrections to pop down to and scan the dropdown list too. Fast-reading ahead and even making corrections while listening to the squeaky speeded-up dictation as it trails is how to make good money editing. One needs expansions a lot less when editing, of course, but they're still extremely handy. So if you choose to keep developing a system to work directly from as much as possible, rather than coming to depend on scanning a list, I think it should pay off nicely over the long term.
OTOH, since editing does need a lot fewer expansions overall, an Editor would come to memorize all the usual ones anyway and only have to stop and look at the list now and then, never in some documents, often in others. I'm not tempted to change my routine, tho.
Thanks. Primary use will be for gas, though we don't
trade with Shell.
I don't need it for my primary
account either, just my backup. I did not think about using a phone card. Maybe that would work better for me. I am already paying almost $50 a month for regular phone service. That is why I was thinking the $50 a month through Time Warner might be better. I definitely need more than 2 phones, between my C-phone and a phone for both upstairs and downstairs.
Thanks for the info!
IF it is secondary income, where is the harm? As long as you work around your kids (at night, naps)
a big plus when you are around kids all day and bring in a little cash to help out the household.
My primary account allows
2 blanks to go right to the client. I rarely send to QA; in fact, just looked up on my email and I've sent 4 reports to QA in July.
I do about 50 jobs a day.
sounds like my primary...when they first did this,
I emailed my supe and suggested we just type the whole thing in the demo so they did not have to pay us at all...
Did I say primary? Oops. nm.
About 5-6 hours on my primary, but
secondaries slow me down to longer than 8 hours.
Primary question is SM
why didn't the internships work out? What was your quality score (you should have been reviewed at regular intervals)?
My primary account is in New Orleans
They aren't dictating. They don't need transcription help. I need work, but I'm not whining. At least I have a dry home!!!
Unless you are the primary record-keeper sm
You should dispose of all of them. My rule of thumb for files that I keep on my computer is two weeks. I send them in daily to the clinic, but I do keep mine for two weeks as backup in case for some reason theirs get lost.
You need to dispose of them so that the information can no longer be extracted. I remember a long time ago we had a magnet we would run tapes and/or disks through which would wipe the data. I don't know if those still exist, or how well they actually work.
You might get in touch with the MTSO or clinic or whoever the information originally belonged to and find out how they dispose of their sensitive material.
My primary is oncology and hematology
and I have tons of Expanders and macros. I also have to go off of a handwritten schedule that is faxed and cross them off as I go and obtain DOB, MRN and doctor names to place in the document.
Actually being on the same account for four months I would take as consistent primary! nm
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Actually being on the same acct for four years would be considered a consistent primary.
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There are only five states voting in primary elections today--sm
Wisconsin, where I am at, is one of them. check the internet to see if your state is included. this is a *primary* election, meaning we are voting to NOMINATE candidates for senate, congress, govenor, etc. We are not voting these people into office, just nominating them for election.
If insurance is your primary concern, then Trans Tech may not be an option for you.
The family insurance is horrid, over $1200 a month I believe, and the single coverage would have cost me $300 a month. I had to pass on the job due to this. I would be working just for the insurance.
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