Depends where you live maybe? Many I know hate it.
Posted By: sm on 2006-04-11
In Reply to: I have Vonage they are great - hope this helps
Static, clipping, cut offs. Annoying.
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It depends on where you live. If you live in their
service area it would be cheaper than outside their service area. I only have rates for out of service area and medical is 139.13 for family or 168.42 depending on what plan you choose. Dental is 20.85 for family, vision is 5.13. These are per pay period.
Individual coverage would be 44.79/54.21 medical, 7.99 dental, and 1.71 vision.
I opted out of insurance as we have through my husband's job. I believe the cheaper insurance is a 70/30 plan and the more expensive an 80/20, not sure about co-pays. Deductibles are $2000 for family, not sure about individual.
maybe it depends where you live,
it was in the regular mail. Corporate is in the northeast and so am I. Maybe that's why I got mine and you are waiting.
Depends on where you live
It sounds like you live in an area where there is a moderate cost of living. Here in the Bay Area, $15 an hour for an MT in any specialty/area is unheard of. Most start at $22 an hour for 1+ years experience. Well, this is what needed -- plus a lot more -- to pay $2,000 a month for rent or purchase a $600,000 two-bedroom house.
Re: Depends on where you live.
In the East Bay, say Albany, El Cerrito, Pinole, El Sobrante, and there are some very nice areas in Richmond (despite the news/press coverage), even all the way out to Vallejo and Fairfield. But for Berkeley, San Francisco, Marin, the West Bay, and the South Bay - forget about it!! All depends on where you like to live and what you can afford. If you are looking for Marin or Walnut Creek-type neighborhoods, then you will pay $1 million for a two-bedroom house. If you are looking for more modest, but still nice neighborhoods like those above, then you will find what you are looking for in the East Bay.
That depends on where you live --
I just researched this last night. It's 38K in my area, but I do live in a rural community. Our dentist office just cut his staff back to every other week because of the current economy.
I'm still thinking about it, though, because 38K for 4 days a week ain't bad!
it depends on where in NY you live and how you want to base that - sm
I have lived all over NY state and have been doing this for over 12 years. It really really depends on what part of NY that you live in. For example, because some parts of NY have really slim pickings for transcriptionists, the doctors will pay up to $0.14/line in some small backwoods town. However, in the bigger cities, you might only get $0.09/line.
I could go on and on, but first thing - what part of NY are we talking about?
It depends on what state you live in
There are different carriers and plans and it depends on which state you live in on what carries are available to you. Some states have PPOs and HMOs offered and some don't.
Depends on the person. I live right in Philly and love it here.
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It depends on what part of the country you live; here in the Northeast sm
it is $18-$23 per hour.
Depends on the state you live in. In Texas, no this is not legal. nm
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I don't know where you live but where I live foreclosures are rising and there are no jobs -- non
I worried about my employer for part of the winter as my accounts grew sparse. I had plan to switch to being an employee with benefits but dared not make the switch in this economy (this was last year this time, got it?)
I figured keeping my seniority was worth whatever security it afforded.
My accounts have rebounded some and I can pay my bills.
By economizing seriously, I have paid off my credit card and put some money aside, just in case. I'm breathing easier, thanks.
So, all in all, I'm not complaining. This last winter was brutal, but I had a job and I paid my bills. When employment rebounds and/or national health goes into effect, people will go to the doctor again and we will be busy.
My part of the world is like a ghost town -- everyone who could left to find work in the city -- many apparently leaving their homes to the banks. Several houses in my vicinity have been on the market more than 4 years.
Forgive me my loyalty ... it pays the bills.
What does yelling at the rest of us do for you?
I've easily done 600, but it depends on the way a company counts lines and it depends on the
dictators. Obviously, if you have a good share of ESL, there is no way you could ever do 600 or 700. On really difficult ones, I usually run around 400 lines an hour and I have been working on this platform for 3 years.
I hate to say it, but MQ does. nm
come on now, don't hate
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I hate to tell you this, but (sm)
I have over 35 years experience as an MT, and I have never done a resume in my life. I'm afraid if I had to do one, it might not meet your rigid standards of professionalism. I am an excellent MT, and you would be the one losing out. BTW, this is absolutely true. I have never needed a resume. I have only had about 5 jobs in my entire career as an MT, and I know so many people in this profession that one has never been needed - so Heaven forbid, I would ever want to go to work for your company - and you would be the loser.
Well, there's nothing I hate more... sm
...than being at the bottom of someone's DO-DO list.
Thanks for the laugh in an otherwise testy thread, even if it was just a typo! ;-)
I hate to even ask but...
what exactly does it mean to be incorporated? I feel silly not knowing, but I'll never know if I don't ask, right?
Oh I hate that!
I used work for a company who made all of their MTs have Yahoo messenger open practically 24/7. If they didn't see you online, they would call you to find out why!!! They would constantly message me on my days off, or even when I set to appear offline! I would wake up in the morning and go to my computer to find tons of instant messages from like 4 in the morning! I am SO glad that the company I am with now doesn't do that! To me, if a company tells me that I have to give them my IM address, it would be a huge turnoff. It's kind of like a leash.
hate my job
I hate the last part-time job I took learning ESLs and working 1 to 8 p.m., but I must admit I have had work this summer when there were other people even with this company who didn't. Just depends on what your pocketbook can weather.
Ugh, I hate it but I do what I have too...sm
I work EVERY Friday night and Saturday night. I absolutely HATE my schedule but my kids have to eat, right? Plus I worry sometimes that all they will remember of their childhood is me working at night, missing out on things and then napping or sleeping the rest of the time. The economy around here is AWFUL. I have been looking/interviewing for a job outside the home since two years ago. NOTHING.
I hate
That is, unfortunately, about the rate for VR. I worked at Lartech for about a year and it was 3 cpl. I started out doing VR and when I switched companies I started doing straight transcription. I went from struggling with VR editing to what would have equaled 700 transcribed lines per day (editing of 1400 basically) up to 1500+ lines a day not even working as much as I had at Lartech. VR totally brings your time down and they dont pay squat! I read somewhere that the companies got paid the SAME amount from the hospitals whether or not it was VR or straight transcription. I have a feeling companies are lining their pockets left and right because of VR.
I hate to say it, but this is well said.
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I really hate to say this, but
go to MedQuist. You have to be able to pass the test but at least there you can gain experience fast. Also, after there for a year, you can leave.
I hate working there but anyone can do a year of it.
I don't know if they let you use books for the test or if it is timed or not. Maybe someone else knows, but a lot of the bigger places let you use books. Look up everything.
What I really hate to see is
people who do not want to work on VR for whatever reason come here and throw out, for example, less experienced, slower, etc. and that is what happens. If you don’t like, fine, work until your job switches you over and then find another job and then, well you can finish this thought out. To assume, like is about 98% of the time done with VR, is just wrong and that is what I am talking about. The first person said they had experience of 30 years and then went on to say less experienced, well she has less experience than I do and so?
Do I hate it?
Well, HATE is a strong word. I probably don't hate it as much as I hate war, murder, oppression and hominy, but I pretty much dislike it the way it is now. The thing is, I have hung on, keeping hope that it would get better, that I would find the perfect niche for me in this industry, and it just isn't happening.
It does to me too but I hate to think
That it's a company I contract with :-(
I'd hate to think that! NM
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Hate this
I hate this, too. I had planned to spend the rest of my career here and made many sacrifices (working extra, working when my family wanted to be with them, etc. etc., so much so that it caused difficulties in my family because I was ALWAYS TYPING) and I am sure you all did, too. The MDI we thought we knew is dead. As to how anyone could do such a 180, if I had to guess, I would say it has to do with cold, hard cash. When I was a little kid, my father used to say EVERYONE HAS HIS PRICE. I always thought that was a cynical point of view but now I have to ask, is that true? Again, I have said before, she had an absolute right to do whatever she wants to with HER company but I also think there is a moral and ethical duty to take care of the workers who have made you such a success. It is kind of like we are the MT world equivalent of a one-night stand. Wham, bam, thankya maam. This business of sitting in front of my computer with no work for three months and no explanations and no answers will haunt me forever. It will be a long time before I trust too many people again......How sad. How very, very sad.
Don't you just hate that? sm
I haven't applied with them, so not much help there. But, I've been filling out apps, testing, sending resumes all day. This is SO stressful. You just don't even know what sort of company they are, will you get the schedule you need, will the dictators be decent, is their sound quality decent. Soooooo stressful. Sorry I rambled and wasn't much help for you. Hang in there! :)
I hate being left out...sm
another post mentions Douglasville. Georgia, perhaps, cause that's where I'm at...please tell me, I wanna know...I hate being left out...
hate MEDSCRIBE
aNYONE else here despise Medscribe and their corny contests and their rude way of putting their MTs down verbally in emails and on the phone. It's like an old fashioned factory. UGH. Let me outta here.
They are biatches.
I hate Spheris too
Indian givers. That's a nice way of putting it. They are liars, cheaters and users. I need to start looking. I should have started looking years ago. What took me so long to see through them?
Thank you! I hate to see people get taken
like this with the liability issue. It is a nonissue with us.
YUCK!! I hate it!.....
Very few of the docs talk slow/clear enough for the VR software to catch everything. A lot of the reports pretty much have to be retyped.
I hate it when companies do that.
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Hate to break it to ya, but
*Isn't this just good business sense on their part in an environment where it is hard enough to feel connected and part of a team?*
Good business and reality are galaxies apart. During my final time at the last company I left, it was commented to me that for as long as I had been there and as good an MT as I was, they were surprised I had not asked for a raise. I had been with them 9 months. I was covering 12 different accounts and doing mostly ESL dictation. They thought when I turned in my resignation it was about money. It wasn't. It was about a having a level playing field and I didn't like their level of *honesty.* My work route was being manipulated and they couldn't admit what they were doing. Gravy was being given to lesser experienced MTs and I was getting nothing but crap and it was being touted that everyone was paid the same cpl. (okay, this example shows they were lying to me on that level! If they were willing to give me more money to keep me, then they were surely doing that to other people, right?) I wanted an honest work environment and the money. That is what I have now. I've already gotten one raise at the new MTSO with the promise of a second when I hit a new lpd average (two months).
So, it would not hurt to broach the subject if they don't with you. The worse they can do is say no to a raise and explain their review policy. At least you will know where you stand, how you feel, and what your options are.
Hate to say it but most patients have no..
clue about who types their medical records or where they go. I'd say the average Joe who doesn't work in the medical field or know an MT personally doesn't even think about their medical records unless they change docs or go to a specialist, and then it's just to ask the receptionist or whoever to fax their records to another office.
There may be a few people out there(very, very few) who have read an article or watched a news program about off shoring of medical records. However, I bet the average person is more worried about their co-pay, wait time to see the doc, etc. when they go to their doctor's office. Not because they are ignorant or don't care, just simply because it's not something most people would even think about.
Sure there might be some people that would be upset that their records were going out of the United States if they were told, but lets face it, it's not exactly information doctor's offices are volunteering to their patients, and most people would think to ask about such a thing.
I personally think it should be a law that they have to disclose that information to each patient, just like receiving the HIPAA paperwork, but I don't see that happening anytime soon unfortunately.
I agree. Hate to do that, but if it were to come to
I would contact the client and let them know. 
What could be worse? I hate OSI
My husband wants me to flat out quit OSI, just walk out now and worry about finding something else later. I am very sorry for the MT's who don't have other means of income.
I hate change, too.... (sm)
w/regards to your ?'s
*I don't know
*I was hired as an employee a couple years ago
*The rad rate I know is 8 cpl, don't know about range
*I don't know about the work volume but there's more radiology than I can do...
And yeah, I hear you on change. It royally stinks. Good luck to you in your search.
Powerscribe, I hate it
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Hate to bore everybody but
This is getting old now. For the past several months, waiting and waiting for work and I do make adjustments apart from getting off day shift. Christmas is around the corner and I am getting worried. 
Worked on both, hate VR! sm
Love both platforms but only for straight transcription. Went to the poor house doing VR.
for every some that hate a place, some will not. sm
do you work there?
I hate to disappoint you but I am an MT. ?
It seems rather closed minded to think everyone has your experience.
Several of my friends work for MQ, too. All but one is very happy. The one who isn't has not been happy with any place she has ever worked.
I would hate that - everyone paid the same.
I want to negotiate the best deal I can for MY skills and MY experience. Lumping me in with the inexperienced or poor performers and I lose out.
I hate to say it, but I agree with this. nm
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I hate it, but KS uses it on several accounts. nm
I've got one like that. And I really hate it when - sm
she makes corrections on my stuff - that WAS correct, and now it's wrong! She also doesn't seem to know that there are MANY terms out there that are correct in more ways than just one. Other times, she'll correct a 'mistake', and I'll change it in my spell check to help train myself so I don't spell it again. And then, wouldn't ya know, a few weeks or so will go by, and she'll 'correct' that same term again, back to the way I originally had it in the beginning!
So it's no wonder that nowadays I pretty much ignore her completely. I look at her 'corrections', take them with a grain of salt, and other than the ones that truly WERE mistake, I just keep on doing things the way I always do.
QA was originally set in place for quality control, and to help in training. But when they become nothing but something to slow me down for no reason other than to increase HER production numbers, then I just ignore her and get on with my work.
I hate to say the R word but what we really need
is REGULATION of the industry...
Or a UNION which apparently people don't believe in anymore.
EITHER WAY, if we are waiting around for MTSOs large and small to do the RIGHT thing by the PEOPLE WHO MAKE THEM MONEY, then we'll have a LONG wait for some of them who are just small time crooks.
THE VAST MAJORITY of MTSOs large and small are NOT crooks, and are abiding by laws written and implied, but we either sue bad companies individuallly at great cost and time or we speak to our representatives in Congress about regulation.
At the very least make your representatives aware of the abuses of the industry - IT JUST INVOLVES A SIMPLE LETTER TO YOUR LOCAL OFFICE.
Just because the suits (small or large) found out there was money to be made in transcription is NO reason for the workers to sign up for slave labor treatment...
This is from a 20+ year veteran who USED to be an MTSO.
If we dont do this? EVENTUALLY there will be high enough numbers of scribes out there that they can FORCE wages down from the old supply and demand construct.
THINK ABOUT IT.
Spheris, I hate to tell you this, but....ms
If you all do decide to stay on with Spheris, you will not make enough money to live on...unless you are really used to the really difficult ESLs because if your hospital had any really good dictators, they will go to India, no doubt about it. I am so sorry this happened to you. This place is a disgrace.
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