Benefits from transcription companies

I'd like to hear opinions on companies who say they offer insurance to their employees.  Just today I was offered a position by a company who said they offered benefits and then when asking for details, I find out they don't pay a cent toward the monthly premium, it ALL comes out of my pay.  I am sorry folks, but that is not benefits to me.  I may as well be an IC and get my own insurance.  Probably would be cheaper too.  I counter offered to them asking them if I could work IC status and just get a higher line rate........they wouldn't go for it.  Another thing is they require you to type 12,000 lines in a pay period to be eligible for the insurance.  What in the world for?  They are not paying out a red cent toward those benefits so why would it matter how many lines you transcribed if you are paying for the insurance yourself.  This is the first time I have ever heard of something like this and I am pretty ticked about it (I know you can tell).......  In my opinion, there would no benefit at all to being an employee other than they would take your taxes out for you!!!

• Benefits from transcription companies - C.J.
  • 12,000 lines? OMG - what a major RIP-OFF! - Flibertygibbit
    • PAY PERIOD - Molly
    • 12K lines payperiod is 6K lines a week. - Geesh
      • Are we talking a 40-hour week, or an - 80-HOUR week? -nm
        • Payperiod ... 2 wks....6K lines/week or 12K payperiod. - OMG - You've got to be kidding me!
  • Benefits ... - sm
    • Another benefit of employee status over IC - MT
    • Guaranteed amount of work! - What a joke!
      • Yes, I get paid DOWNTIME when - me
      • And don't we pay our OWN unemployment? sm - BUbbywhup
        • I think California employees pay into their own unemployment - nm - mt65sha
        • Nope. Company does. - nm

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I've been seeking work with benefits for a year now.  I have an IC job with crappy pay (5cpl), actually am looking at another IC job now with better pay (7cpl), though not fantastic.  Part of the reason I got into this profession was to work from home and be able to afford health insurance... what a joke!  I don't make enough to pay bills much less health insurance. 

I really do wish the schools were more up-front and honest about this profession.  Don't get me wrong, I actually LOVE being an MT, but the hype of 10 cpl with benefits is crap!  Recently I had a woman approach me and ask if it is true she could make 12 cpl with full benefits after a 6-month course.  I told her if she finds that to give me a call!  A school told her this was possible for her to earn from home right out of school.  HA!

I just posted a message about TTS, and I have several more companies that I would like ANY information on. So, instead of writing several posts, I'm going to list them here and if you have any info about any of them, please share. I am currently working full time as an employee for a hospital, and I'm interested in becoming an IC for the flexibility. The companies are:

USA Medical Transcription

Iridium Services, Inc.

MedQuist

Sten-Tel out of Mass

SmartDoc

Medical Records Corp of Maryland

World Wide Dictation

Grace Transcription

CTS: Complete Transcription Services

OSI

Thanks in advance for any information!

refuse to use ASR?  It seems to be the wave of the future.

To Transcription Companies:

We are Transcriptionists or MLS.  We are faces unseen, but hearts that beat.  We are NOT a piece of machinery, but if you choose to think of us such, then I suggest you think of your machines as following:  In order for you to have your company, you need us.  We perform best when well treated.  We don't require much care, but the care we do require must be gentle.  Like any well-oiled machinery, we need gentle hands and warm touches.  It gets lonely, very lonely being a machine by itself.  Most of the time, the only contacts we get from you are your emails or IMs to us.  The wording of those emails is critical to the functioning of our machines.  A quick, thoughtless brash email lends our machinery to slow down and run boggy.  (Many a personal relationship has been broken by email and IM communication.  It's not a good way to run a business.)  Just like any piece of equipment, maintenance is important.  That maintenance comes in the form of our pay, and we only ask that it be on time and correct.  We produce for you.  We need our maintenance.  Sure, some of us may require a little more maintenance than others, but you end up benefiting from the results.  A little thank you now and then would be nice.  And, certainly at the holidays, we don't expect you all to be able to give us a complete overhaul, but certainly a card, a pen, a special little pad of paper, a calendar, or coffee cup would be much appreciated.  When feeding us input (or QA as you like to call it), we learn much better and produce more when it is given with tenderness and teaching.  Some machines learn best with a variety of teaching methods.  (Even speech recognition needs not only the voice, but the typist's words as well.)  We Transcriptionist machines may need some visual, as well as verbal teaching; and if we only get one, it may take us longer to learn.  It doesn't mean we are stupid; we just each have different methods of learning.  We will give you many years of service and perhaps a lifetime guarantee, if only you would follow the manufacturer's instructions.  Thank you.

A Transcription Machine

What companies are offering only straight transcription jobs?  A list of these would truly  appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Hey everyone, check out this link. This is what we are up against. Be sure and note how 3M or whoever is the sponsor of this webinar throws in that dictation and transcription is time-consuming.  Nevermind that EMR and VR take more time and money to be successful and it only takes 38 seconds to dictate a returning patient and 2 minutes to dictate a new patient versus 500 clicks on a point and click EMR or the mess VR makes and having to have an Editor come in and clean up the mess. Propaganda that we should know about.

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TIA.