Could you be confusing "using the facilities own MTs" with "sending to India" mayhaps?
Posted By: nm on 2005-09-30
In Reply to: You can ask their recruiter if they offshore. It is a known fact! - They offshore Ochsner Clinic and Mayo
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I take it they are two different facilities? :)
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From above: they are giving you. I bet facilities are
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Actually, I have heard of facilities
Okay, my apologies if I thought you were biting my head off. I'm so used to the negativity that usually runs rampant on these boards that (without my usual pot of coffee to start my morning), I thought you were discrediting my concerns. Again, my apologies :-).
Back on topic, I have recently heard that facilities now do push every dictator through onto VR, no matter how horrible they are (I guess they figure it's the MTs problem, as usual).
There are very odd things going on at MDI-MD, and with the new offshoring, etc., it makes sense that they would pull back the ones too difficult for the ILPs to understand and pass those on to the American MTs.
But I seriously would like some opinions on why work is disappearing for 3-4 days, then reappearing for transcription. The ONLY thing I can think of is this, too, is work that was routed to the ILPs but it was close to falling (or already had fallen) out of TAT and they needed the American MTs to pull it back in line. Like I said, I've been on this account for more than a year and this NEVER has happened, EVER. The work was somewhere...the question is, where?
IMO, I think the lack of work, the only remaining transcription being the dregs of the dictators, and work suddenly appearing (and large volumes of it) 3-4 days after it was dictated just all points to offshoring in progress.
Any thoughts on that?
And, yes, BTW, like you I do VR and love it. I think Escription is just about the greatest thing since sliced bread, lol!
Most doctors and facilities have never heard of . . .
CMT, or the AAMT. Although they (AAMT) want to you to believe it matters, the CMT designation isn't really an important factor in the real working MT world. Quality is what matters to the healthcare providers with which I work, and unfortunately having CMT after one's name doesn't guarantee that.
The AAMT also is pushing for mandatory certification. That will never happen. I predict the AAMT will go broke within a couple years.
The bottom line is to do quality work. That will keep an MT working and in demand.
From what I know the three hospitals are actually one big account with three facilities and then
the fourth is a cancer center. I have worked at Transtech for almost two years and it's the best job I've ever had. I think you will have a primary account and then a backup. I don't know of anyone here who has more than that.
Most facilities don't know their work is offshored
the MT dept. head knows about it and nobody else. That's pretty evil. Hadn't thought about that.
Facilities have to have employees vote
on whether to accept a union or not at their place of employment or not. If the majority of employees vote no, then a union does not go into that specific facility.
All those facilities amount to 1127 sm
actual beds (the size of 1 large teaching hospital), clinic work, a rehab center with 40 beds and an imaging center.
The list of facilities sounds impressive, but does not amount to the number of accounts we have lost and will lose over the next few months.
The way W overhires, this account will be like all others, everyone fighting for some work.
Depending on where you live, there are many facilities hiring.
Check with Radiologix. They had an ad running for MT, pay well with great benefits.
If you check around, there are many other facilities hiring in-house if that is what you prefer. Some are hiring at-home employees also with a better setup than what you describe.
Pick yourself up! Don't let it get you down. Life can be much much worse.
Really, if you were in a room full of people and everyone threw their problems into the middle of the floor, you will see you really have no problems at all!
Good luck to you!
Um, some facilities are getting back huge mistakes!
Depends where you work. If you have access to all reports, try looking up some that have gone to the facilities. Where I work, it is frightening!!!! ; 0
They will outsource and find out facilities are willing to accept
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The suits and facilities often control dictation, not
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Some facilities or hospitals keep their own servers in-house sm
to store their medical records. eScription is a software program used to access those files.
It all depends on how each client handles their contracts with eScription. Not every client or hospital is the same.
Big facilities contract out MT through administration. Drs have no say, they dont pay the bill.
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We need to CALL THE FACILITIES and let them know what is going on! OR Class Action Lawsuit
...we need to all go out on strike! If we ALL stopped working tomorrow, called the facilities and let them know why, where would WebmedX be?
Our only hope lies in the facilities staffing MTs direct. SM
Win/win. They save a ton even if they pay us more per line which in turn puts us back in the bladk. We get affordable health coverage and labor laws.
SIMPLE AS THAT
They must be confusing themselves with someone..
else..they are the ones that posted this ad on the job board:
Keystrokes has an opening for a radiology MT.
We supply the tower and the footpedal. You supply the monitor and the keyboard and the high speed.
This is a lovely account, clear and concise dictators, fast, but good. Platform is MANTIS, experience preferred, but not required on this platform.
Pay is by the report.
Yes, it is confusing ... sm
MDI-FL is different. They are also a great place to work, and their website is medicaldictation.com. You might want to look at them, also. The two are not affiliated in any way, only their initials are the same!
Thanks, it seemed a little confusing. nm
It is confusing (sm)
I think we can look to other industries as a possible example.
Imagine you need someone to paint 2 rooms in your house. You speak with a man on Monday and let him know that you need your living room and kitchen painted by Friday 8 p.m., as you have company coming from out of town. You both agree and create a contract that states his pay ($300), 2 rooms need painting, and the deadline to complete the project. The end result: Two rooms painted by Friday 8 p.m. for $300. The homeowner has a right to specify the end result, but is not managing his hours. If the homeowner had no control, the painter could finish whenever he wanted. This would make no sense. So, the homeowner would have someone come to paint with no idea when it would be finished or how many rooms would be painted? In MT, the end result could be total lines, number of tapes, etc.
confusing...
It is really confusing, the whole thing, which is why I left. Everyone is sad, myself included, that the Indian team leads are being let go as well. They were great to work with and I do know for a fact that they are being replaced with American team leads. It is confusing that they let the American QA team go in the first place, and from they way it sounds was without warning. They now have a forum board on Yahoo groups for the MTs to voice concerns and to stay informed. That was a good move on their part. If things get better I would like to go back part time. I guess time will tell the outcome. Focus was my first company and I wish them the very best.
It is confusing, and while not for the . . .
most part going to change the meaning, I do find it very confusing. I do use Stedman's and Dorland's as the most reliable sources on these issues..
All so confusing!!!
Wow.
I was referring to the one in FL. Sorry if confusing....NM
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WMX call very confusing
She just went round and round about how much more money we as MTs are making since we are so much more productive with the ISR, yet the example she gave had the MT making $100 less! I just don't get it. So disillusioned. Their coldness and statistics make me ill.
I think perhaps you're confusing them with another company?
They pay extremely well - higher than any other company I've been able to find.
Sten-Tel....this is getting confusing....please read
Yes, the previous poster below is right, I am referring to the job ad that they had for cardiology and pathology, not the platform or the franchise. It's the company out of Springfield, MA that I am talking about. I appreciate some of the feedback I got so far. It seems that those who are working for them out of MA are happy with their jobs. I was given an opportunity to work for them as an editor/transcriptionist and all I wanted to know is if they were a decent company to work for. So, if there are anymore Sten-Tellers out there, I would love to hear from you. Thanks.
Your moniker is Overseas MT, which is very confusing.
Your post was fraught with errors. You didn't even get the gender of the owner right.
I realize this is a message board, people write quickly and are bound to make typos. Many of your errors simply weren't typos, though.
If I were an MTSO reading your post, I don't think I'd invite you to work for me. Sorry.
I think they use different programs, very confusing and disorganized
nm
The archive searches here are confusing.
But when I put 'davis' in the second search box down (not the top one, with Google, etc.), just to the right of the ''Post a new message'' button, I got plenty of results.
I think the confusing issue here is the term
Maybe access is a better word. For instance, I have access to certain accounts for my online company. As an IC for them, I have no quota to meet, I draw from the pool of dictators. Now, I have agreed to take on certain dictators that no one else seemed to want to do. But, if something comes up in my workday, as an IC, I just e-mail the company and they find someone else. It's that simple and it works great. Other than that, I draw from the pool of dictators that I have access to for that MTSO.
Assigned means no help from any other MTs; it's all you and when a company assigns you work they should actually be paying you as an employee not an IC. An IC works piece work meaning each and every sound file is a job or a service you have provided to that company. You are an MT that provides your skills and they pay you for that service.
The only thing I've found that's difficult in this biz is naming your price with the online MTSOs as an IC. They seem to name the wage; so that part is tough.
If it is an ongoing relationship, it's also important that you think of this client and/or MTSO on a file by file basis. One voice file is a job and so on. There are other MTs in place at the company I work for that will step in and take work, so the downside is that I have to be on my toes if I want more than just what I have agreed to do on a regular basis unless something comes up.
As an IC, I have my own personal clients as well. But, I consider the online MTSO one of my clients, so I service them all in the same fashion.
In actuality, my own clients are the money makers, and the online MTSO is filler and works very well for me since there are no set hours, no set line quota, and I can not work at all on any particular day. As a courtesy, I let them know if I'm taking time off, but I really don't have to do that if I don't want to, but I like to because I know that TAT is important. I respect them and they respect me.
I think you're confusing the deductible with the premium. sm
Family coverage is not $1000 a month in premiums.
TTS has a very low starting pay & a confusing bonus scale. nm
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To make it confusing, there is also MedScript Services, Inc., and
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Mediscribe of Indiana, NOT MedScribe, confusing, the first one has ....sm
hired me without testing, which seems great, but should I be worried? I mean, 18 years experience in all phases, but this was so FAST! Please, can someone tell me about this company, worked there, info would be so appreciated because the contract does not tell me anything that I do not know....recruiter is Tonya. TIA!
I guess what is confusing is why keep running new ads if you already have too many resumes
Obviously, they didn't find what they were looking for and are seeking to get more applicants. I have sent in several resumes to different companies recently and some I have not heard from at all and some did not response for another week or two, but in any case, they did not repost an ad every few days.
This whole IC Transcend thing is totally confusing to me!! sm
I read this board pretty regularly and I recall a few days ago somebody saying how they got an email threatening termination because they were not making the PT status. When the company I was with was bought by Transcend somebody asked about IC and they said they only did PT and FT, no IC. Since they bought MDI there is all this talk about them now offering IC. I am just questioning this because it seems to me they might expect someone who is an IC to actually work PT status, of course with no PTO earned or anything else. Again, this all just does not make sense to me especially if what a read a few days ago is true and somebody got an email threatening termination unless they made enough to be PT status. I guess I am just wondering if anybody else has gotten an email stating that they needed to make PT status or might be terminated??
or they are growing. What a terrible blanket statement. This is so confusing now. sm
I hear good things about a company and the exact opposite from someone else. Then stay away from another, and a friend of my gets the position and has been there for 4 years. I missed out by listening to others on that one but listened on others about how good they were and now have had 8 jobs in 3-1/2 years. I AM NOT A JOB-HOBBER. I just want to work and be left alone except to get paid.
Anyone have any recent info on Sten-Tel out of Massachusetts? Old posts were rather confusing sm
as to whether the company was Indian or not. There is an ad up on another board for editors. Are they offshore? TIA.
India, Michael. The MT world is going to India. Wonder why? nm
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i work 3 part-time jobs now. it can be confusing if you are learning both at the same time, but sm
other than that not a problem for me. best to get one down before starting to other or you might become overwhelmed.
offshore to India, it's OFFSHORE (off shore), not outsource to India.
nm
If the transcribed files go to India, are sent out from India to be transcribed, sm
then the transcribed work is sent BACK to India to be pasted into the GEMS platform and then sent back to the clients in America, how on earth can the company claim to be US-based because its Indian owner has a home in Kentucky?
...or from India. nm
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so done with india
so done with india.... they can't make it w/o us americans
It all went to INDIA....
Spheris over-hired all right. All of your work went to India to the Combitore office they opened up. Look into some websites and you will find it. Indiadaily. com or something like that. It talks all about the nice growth they are experiencing in India with the new Spheris office. They immediately hired like 300 or some MTs. Now that is going to take a bite out of your work isn't it. Get out of that place and find a place that is not giving all of our work to India. Plain and simple!! Let them have all India workers for a while and when the quality gets so bad and they have to come back to US MTs, well then you should ask for a better rate of pay as well. Spheris does not deserve to have even 1 good US MT to work for them. They are biting the hand that feeds them. As a matter of fact, people should not even use the hospitals that use Spheris as an outsource. There is more than one way to skin a cat!!
Not ALL of it goes to India.
I do not work there, but I have a friend who does and she works on an account for C-Bay that does not allow the work to go to India.
india
Just wondering, do these MT companies actually give computers in India to those people like they do for their employees in US? At one point does the Editor know their editing a foreigner's work? Just a question I had.
India says? Says where?
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yes to India
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India
Can it possibly be worth it to these companies by time the pay someone out of the country and then QA. Wouldn't it make more sense to just have an MT who could do the job correctly in the first place! Guess not - since they are all going this route.
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