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Anonymous said:
Those modalities are not germane to this conversation. CMS requires certain elements of our space to be in place. Maybe if CMS decisions on cardiac event monitoring were left up to the LCD boards and not a national coverage policy, then your parochial observation would have some potential justification. Continuity of care is a big concern of CMS and is why they used to frown on physician offices doing the monitoring during normal business hours and outsoucing to a service ( US based ) at night. They most certainly will not condone outsourcing to another country. It is why most state medicaids require that the service be located within that state- it is the same guiding principle. Even if you were correct, it only opens the door for other companies to capture more business, because the service will most certainly collapse. It should give our reps something to help them and maybe they will finally grow up, accept some responsibility and sell something other than the smut on this site.
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Check the facts before you post. Not sure where you live or what your position is, but XRay, CT, and other test are outsourced to India, and it is legal, and remember, MCOT is not to be used for emergency purposes. Regardless, you are probably one of the ones that said CMS will not cut the rates 40%, and we all know that outcome!
 






Anonymous said:
Those modalities are not germane to this conversation. CMS requires certain elements of our space to be in place. Maybe if CMS decisions on cardiac event monitoring were left up to the LCD boards and not a national coverage policy, then your parochial observation would have some potential justification. Continuity of care is a big concern of CMS and is why they used to frown on physician offices doing the monitoring during normal business hours and outsoucing to a service ( US based ) at night. They most certainly will not condone outsourcing to another country. It is why most state medicaids require that the service be located within that state- it is the same guiding principle. Even if you were correct, it only opens the door for other companies to capture more business, because the service will most certainly collapse. It should give our reps something to help them and maybe they will finally grow up, accept some responsibility and sell something other than the smut on this site.
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The last sentence is a perfect example of the downfall of CN. The salesforce is frustrated from all the constant complaints and problems with practices, then they get no cooperation from the inside. Sales responsibility is to bring in sales. Your customers responsibility is?????....... NOTHING!!!! They are your customer and you do what you can to make their life easier and you thank everyone for sending you business. You make $1500 per patient and they get $20. Half of the time they get customer (patient) complaints from skin irritation to large EOB's. You need to help make the sales cycle easier not more difficult. Your techs will tell offices to call 10 minutes after sending a fax to be sure we received it, are you kidding? Dont you see anything wrong with that? I hope so.
 






Anonymous said:
The last sentence is a perfect example of the downfall of CN. The salesforce is frustrated from all the constant complaints and problems with practices, then they get no cooperation from the inside. Sales responsibility is to bring in sales. Your customers responsibility is?????....... NOTHING!!!! They are your customer and you do what you can to make their life easier and you thank everyone for sending you business. You make $1500 per patient and they get $20. Half of the time they get customer (patient) complaints from skin irritation to large EOB's. You need to help make the sales cycle easier not more difficult. Your techs will tell offices to call 10 minutes after sending a fax to be sure we received it, are you kidding? Dont you see anything wrong with that? I hope so.
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When was the purpose of long term monitoring ever been to be a profit center for physicians? It is designed to find patients to move on to other tests where the physician can make money. You are wrong, the customer is suppose to do something. See, that is where you go wrong and create false expectations for your customers and that is when they start "seeing" problems. Give me a break, skin irritations? And you don't think that patients get large EOBs from the physicians? Why is it physicians can balance bill, charge for their services but our industry is suppose to write off everything, not balance bill and provide non irritating electrodes? The fax issue is, however, a very real problem and there is no excuse for that kind of poor service.
 






Anonymous said:
Check the facts before you post. Not sure where you live or what your position is, but XRay, CT, and other test are outsourced to India, and it is legal, and remember, MCOT is not to be used for emergency purposes. Regardless, you are probably one of the ones that said CMS will not cut the rates 40%, and we all know that outcome!
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You should read more carefully. I said that CT, XRay are not relevant to event monitoring/MCOT. I know that they are outsourced, believe me I know, more than you do. I have been involved in selling PACS for years and most customers are XRAY companies. Consequently, some of those companies have been looking at the monitoring space for some time, especially the mobile xray companies. CMS has some very strict guidelines for the space of event monitoring and how IDTFs are to be set up. As far as MCOT being used for emergency purposes, what has that got to do with this comment? MCOT does however discover some life threatening situations that become emergencies and I am sure that CMS would really love those patients being triaged from 9000 miles away. And by the way, I knew that CMS was cutting the rates and they are not finished yet.
 












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Well I am sitting at my cube here in Rosemont, not doing a goddamn thing. And why you may ask? Because 30 people around me just got fired. Yup, 30...Gotta love LW. I am about to walk into a "townhall meeting" with the whole company to receive an explanation for all the firings. Why couldnt they just of fired me as well, take me out of my misery! I dont not want to go to this shit and listen to a bunch of jewish assholes tell me its my fault for the company downfall. Hopefully those fat asses over in IT will track this post back to me and fire me as well. I will keep everyone updated on the meeting.
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So what was the meeting all about?
 






Anonymous said:
You should read more carefully. I said that CT, XRay are not relevant to event monitoring/MCOT. I know that they are outsourced, believe me I know, more than you do. I have been involved in selling PACS for years and most customers are XRAY companies. Consequently, some of those companies have been looking at the monitoring space for some time, especially the mobile xray companies. CMS has some very strict guidelines for the space of event monitoring and how IDTFs are to be set up. As far as MCOT being used for emergency purposes, what has that got to do with this comment? MCOT does however discover some life threatening situations that become emergencies and I am sure that CMS would really love those patients being triaged from 9000 miles away. And by the way, I knew that CMS was cutting the rates and they are not finished yet.
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To use your words.....XRays also "find life threatening situations".......what's the difference, .9 miles or 9000 when you have the internet? As far as you knowing CMS was cutting the rates, who didn't know CMS was cutting the rates......RANDY????!!!!!!!!! Phil lied and told everyone that his sources said they were not cutting rates. This came from a Man who has to hire consultants to talk with the insurance companies because he can't look anyone in the eye when he speaks! IF you didn't know this was coming, you have no business being in the business.
 






Anonymous said:
To use your words.....XRays also "find life threatening situations".......what's the difference, .9 miles or 9000 when you have the internet? As far as you knowing CMS was cutting the rates, who didn't know CMS was cutting the rates......RANDY????!!!!!!!!! Phil lied and told everyone that his sources said they were not cutting rates. This came from a Man who has to hire consultants to talk with the insurance companies because he can't look anyone in the eye when he speaks! IF you didn't know this was coming, you have no business being in the business.
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Some people are just plain idiots!! Xrays and attended long term monitoring are two completely different spaces. Xrays you are just reading the Xray and yes you are correct in it makes no difference where you are. However, if you can't see the difference between reading an xray and providing attended long term monitoring where you actually have to triage a patient, then your management is not the problem. Set in on a CMS policy board meeting and listen the discussions on this subject and related issues and you would see the difference is quite clear. That is why there is different policies and procedures in place for different modalities- because they are different and each present a whole set of different complexities. It is clear that you do not and makes me wonder how competent you are as a sales representative. You are also correct in knowing about the rate cuts but do you know where they are heading now? I am not even in your industry but it is clear I understand your business as well as you do.

I would be happy to help your management for I too am a consultant.
 






Anonymous said:
When was the purpose of long term monitoring ever been to be a profit center for physicians? It is designed to find patients to move on to other tests where the physician can make money. You are wrong, the customer is suppose to do something. See, that is where you go wrong and create false expectations for your customers and that is when they start "seeing" problems. Give me a break, skin irritations? And you don't think that patients get large EOBs from the physicians? Why is it physicians can balance bill, charge for their services but our industry is suppose to write off everything, not balance bill and provide non irritating electrodes? The fax issue is, however, a very real problem and there is no excuse for that kind of poor service.
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I am going to disagree with you. No one said profit center, but you should not have to pay money to use mct devices. It costs a practice money to use these devices. No one on this earth would agree that a 24hr holter or 30 day event is same RVU as mct (but this is another argument). What is this "other test"? MCOT is "3X better", correct? I thought it is Better Information, Better Care, not Better Information, Another Test. You were told this in a conf. room and it is not real life. The patient complaints are usually very minor and you can explain each one away, but when you have 10 by Wednesday from the same practice you become a nuisance and just not worth the hassle. Especially if you say there is another test that they make more money on.
We have to be less of a nuisance and more a benefit.
 






Anonymous said:
Some people are just plain idiots!! Xrays and attended long term monitoring are two completely different spaces. Xrays you are just reading the Xray and yes you are correct in it makes no difference where you are. However, if you can't see the difference between reading an xray and providing attended long term monitoring where you actually have to triage a patient, then your management is not the problem. Set in on a CMS policy board meeting and listen the discussions on this subject and related issues and you would see the difference is quite clear. That is why there is different policies and procedures in place for different modalities- because they are different and each present a whole set of different complexities. It is clear that you do not and makes me wonder how competent you are as a sales representative. You are also correct in knowing about the rate cuts but do you know where they are heading now? I am not even in your industry but it is clear I understand your business as well as you do.

I would be happy to help your management for I too am a consultant.
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We do not triage patients. We are not emergency response. This could easily be outsourced. Rate cuts are still going on.
 






Anonymous said:
Some people are just plain idiots!! Xrays and attended long term monitoring are two completely different spaces. Xrays you are just reading the Xray and yes you are correct in it makes no difference where you are. However, if you can't see the difference between reading an xray and providing attended long term monitoring where you actually have to triage a patient, then your management is not the problem. Set in on a CMS policy board meeting and listen the discussions on this subject and related issues and you would see the difference is quite clear. That is why there is different policies and procedures in place for different modalities- because they are different and each present a whole set of different complexities. It is clear that you do not and makes me wonder how competent you are as a sales representative. You are also correct in knowing about the rate cuts but do you know where they are heading now? I am not even in your industry but it is clear I understand your business as well as you do.

I would be happy to help your management for I too am a consultant.
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So you are the consultant that Phil uses......... Now we all understand why we didn't get United. Yes, things are much clearer for the Sales Force now!
 












ok you're the smart one.

Triage (pronounced /ˈtriːɑːʒ/) is a process of determining the priority of patients treatments based on the severity of their condition. This rations patient treatment efficiently when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately
 












SOOOOOOOO Glad you got your own site! Please, leave the other sites alone and just complain to each other......it is healthier for everyone! Here, here to LIFEWATCH SITE!!!!
 






That's so horrible when they had so many talented sales reps. I would personally like the interview and to potentially offer them a position on my team.

Nicholas Edwards
IconMedix
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Anonymous said:
ok you're the smart one.

Triage (pronounced /ˈtriːɑːʒ/) is a process of determining the priority of patients treatments based on the severity of their condition. This rations patient treatment efficiently when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately
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Lifewatch should be TRIAGED!!!!!!
 






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