Is Multispecialty Clinic paid the same?
Posted By: FL on 2006-03-06
In Reply to: Multispecialty Clinic - sm
Or is it less? I've done H&P, Consultation, and Discharge Summaries. Just no Op notes.
Thanks for you help.
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Multispecialty Clinic
Your experience sounds more like multispecialty clinic work than acute care and you would probably be much more comfortable with clinic work at this time. Unfamiliarity with acute care will definitely slow you down, which will ultimately cut into your paycheck. You might not have a problem doing work for a small hospital with limited procedures and limited specialties, but any larger hospital or teaching hospital is probably well beyond your skill level right now.
Radiology or Multispecialty test for newbie?
I have tested with a couple of companies that give the option of testing for Radiology or Multispecialty. I'm just wondering, as a new graduate, which test I should choose? 
most psych work is included in multispecialty hospital work..sm
contracted to a medical transcription service that requires multispecialty experience because of the hospital work. Unfortunately, very rarely can a medical Transcriptionist these days be given only one specialty when working for a service or hospital. We have to be well versed in multi specialties. The Turn Around Time on demands have increased, and thus the service or hospital gives the MT many different types of work. Learn as many specialties and gain as much experience in different specialties, which in turn will make you a more valuable MT and more apt to gain employment.
So it's better to start out in the clinic
area rather than the hospital setting? How do you find clinics who are hiring? I look in the paper and I don't see any.
No, I believe they mean they do many clinic specialties when they say that. (nm)
(nm)
If you do clinic work, I'm sure you
could find ophthalmology, but if you need a dependable income I'd suggest you not be that rigid.
One characteristic of most good MTs is that they like learning new things. There used to be a lot of money in repetitive reports, but less so now with VR and EMR technology, and foreign countries doing the work for lower pay, there isn't as much of that anymore.
clinic work
Spheris hires Career Step grads but only at 0.055, (at least you'll be home) and probably won't make more than 150 lines an hour, so you'll start out there making about $8.25/hour, they're clinic platform is easy, they have flexible hours, supervisors and QA people are good, they pay on time.
Need a Job! Experience in clinic and radiology
I am a new medical transcriptionist, I have some minimal experience, I have over $500 into books from stedman and also $300 in computer software! I have every single thing needed except the job! Please I need someone willing to work with me, and someone to understand that I am looking for something LONG TERM! I have experience with radiology and clinic specially. But also a dabble of others as well.
Please contact me via email. I will send you my resume. Blessings, Marilyn
RE: Need a Job! Experience in clinic and radiology
Look on the job board for OSi who posted today looking for cardiology transcriptionists.
clinic versus acute
acute care consists of patient care in the hospital from the time they are admitted until they are discharged (emergency room, history/physical, consultations, progress notes, lab/imaging data, transfers, and discharges are the most common). clinic notes are office visits (sometimes include consultations and maybe lab/imaging data). these are usually shorter dictations than the acute care.
Apply for clinic positions & then ask if any GE/GI is available. Otherwise, you get hit with a
s
my multispeciality clinic has 28 specialties
GI, GU, cardio, ortho, derm, ENT, surgery, endocrine, plastics, audio, ophtho, podiatry, physical therapy, OB-GYN, internal medicine, pulmonary, sleep center, oncology, infectious disease, pediatrics, urology, nephrology, allergy, rheumatology. Those are all the different specialties you can learn in clinic.
The newbies working on clinic accounts for me..... s.m.
leave one blank every other report or so. Usually it's due to some random phrase they're not used to hearing. It's rarely an actual medical term.
what is the difference between clinic and acute care reports?
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Would the open positions be for acute care or clinic? FT or PT? Thx! nm
s
Not as a newbie! Lots of new drugs, lab values, tests, implants, etc. Clinic would be better. nm
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you have to call the hospital/clinic line to connect with the dictation machine on their end
so you get a dial tone, that means it is working. Next you dial the number of the dictation system, and it says something like "welcome to bla-bla hospital. Please enter your user ID followed by the pound sign." Then you enter your ID and it starts giving you work in your queue or asks for job type or whatever.
What program is not teaching the difference between acute care and clinic work?
I have seen quite a few questions about this lately and was just wondering.
There's another one where you DO get paid... says
see link
I wish I could get paid this way again
When I first started out all I had to do was type the document, open up the information and get my line count, so much easier, even a return was a line. I had been able to keep it that way up until now where it is a 65 character line, with spaces at least though. I think I would definitely make more money with just plain old straight lines.
You must have already paid, huh?
AHP is a huge rip-off and the complaints outweigh the praises.
You paid for this?
David, I hope you're not saying that you PAID for a course wherein the teachers or moderators do not reply to your questions by email.
It might be time to go further up the food chain at that school.
Not getting paid well at first?
If you choose the right school, you won't have to be in the position of "probably not gettin paid well at first." You won't have to "work your way up," either.
Doesn't it make more sense to choose a reputable school with a history of placing students directly into decent jobs at regular pay rates?
Going with a crummy school because it's cheaper . . . or being blinded because it's more expensive . . . makes no sense. If you can't work at all, or you have to take a job at low pay just to get your foot in the door, you've wasted your time in the program and you are continuing to waste it.
I don't know what to think about people who encourage others to do the same.
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why students continue to ask about and enroll in these horrible "schools." Isn't the massive amount of negative information about them enough to steer you away?
I think getting paid by the minute might be better because
lots of times you get the docs who will carry on a conversation in the middle of the dictation, or who will lay the phone down to thumb through the chart, though I have no personal experience with being paid this way.
Man you got ripped if you paid that much to get an
AA degree. Shouldn't have cost you more than $2,000.00 and even though is a stretch.
I am not a paid affiliate
and have never benefited from the school except a good education and a great job that I got right after graduation. Yes, CS prepared me well!!!
get paid hourly
best bet is get a job locally that pays hourly. you make more money that way. in 1976, i made $9/hr. now i make $17/hr. when i edit, i make $23/hr (boston)
What a crock. Are you being paid to
push those two schools? Go ask experienced MTs on the main board which schools they went to.
If I get paid 7 cents per 65-Character.....
by electonic character count, do you think that would be with spaces or without?
Anyone? Not sure!
Thanks!!
Honey, if you expect to be PAID to do this job, you still
There is no way to confuse H&P with HNP.
good luck getting paid
I work there and twice they shorted my pay and my check didn't even come this time. They don't have direct deposit, just one very hateful payroll clerk who acts like it just kills her to answer a question.
MedLine has paid internships
after going through their program and you are qualified to work on real dictation jobs because the school is owned by a med. trans. company. It is an excellent school, I am going to it, after wasting money on TRSI's school which was horrible. They called their advanced transcription "internship" which wasn't an internship at all, and no one answered my questions or helped me and I ended up leaving there knowing nothing. Anyway see if Medline can answer your questions.
Better paid healthcare position to MT here...big adjustment, but it's...
entirely worth it. The lower pay (at least for a while) versus the stress you feel as an RN - only you can decide, but in the long run I'll go with MT any day.
Also, if I were you, I would go with M-Tec rather than CS. It is a much more comprehensive program, and you will be much more prepared. Yes, it is a bit more expensive, but you will have many, many job offers when you graduate and can pick what suits you best. 
I paid medical insurance claims
for about 17 years, so while this did help me tremendously with the terminology, etc., I don't think there is any way you can do this without the proper training. I knew a lot about the medical field, but it still doesn't compare to what you learn when schooling to be an MT
School gets paid for intern work
I now know they are paid for each report I do, supposedly to help cover the cost of "interning" students. The client company benefits by having reports already proofed that do not have to go through their QA and the school gets paid. I have started sending out resumes and taking online tests. Hopefully, I will get a paying position soon.
That's a first for me. I've never heard of an IC being paid hourly.
I wonder if that breaks any laws about ICs? I'm not an expert at all on IC laws, but I wouldn't be surprised if being paid hourly doesn't make you an employee. You might want to post that question in the subject line on the main board.
I have been paid by the dictation minute, I prefer it ...
for the reasons you mentioned. On a couple of occasions, the recording "continued" for about 15 to 20 minutes after the dictation was done, and because I had to continue to listen, I got PAID for those minutes!
Are interns paid for the work they do? (see inside)
I see there is a fee for this program. If one has to pay a fee, and do work without pay, it doesn't sound like such a great deal for the newbie.
The problem with affiliates promoting the school is they get PAID to go it.
If you file jointly it doesn't matter who paid for them, it all comes
from the same pot anyway.
Nevermind...not paid. In fact, website says they charge
a $99 enrollment fee. That means this company is getting paid for work that is done for free by newbie MTs. Yikes!
If school is AHDI-approved, there are paid apprenticeship programs available.
I happened upon a company that offers paid internships
The company is in California. If you go to their website and click on the tab entitled "Join our Team," you'll find more info.
I'm not affiliated with the company and know nothing about them, just happened upon it while job searching for myself and though new MTs or graduates might be interested.
I hope you're being paid a decent wage and not being
taken advantage of, which happens a lot.
Is your internship paid? Can you stay with it and get experienced and apply for an at-home job
s
Most people lucky enough to be paid hourly worked on-site first.
Otherwise those jobs are very rare.
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