Even hospital benefits are sky high

• Help! Looking for good benefits, especially medical. - weary job seeker
  • Single or family? nm - another MT
    • Even hospital benefits are sky high - USMT
      • I wish I was that lucky!!! I pay $900/mo - for family coverage -nm
      • Exactly! I just posted that same thing below - under the keystrokes thread sm
  • Get private insurance. It is probably cheaper - yea
  • Benefits - MTing

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The hospital benefits differ depending on each individual hospital, but they are less expensive in general.  For my hospital, medical insurance is about $200 per month for the most expensive PPO for family. 

I do know that if you are looking into one of the hospital employee positions, you have to live in a state compatible with who the hospital accepts, i.e. usually that state and the states surrounding it.  I believe it has something to do with the state tax withholding, so not everyone will be able to work for the hospital directly.  Make sure you ask about it though with the recruiter.  They did the same thing to me (tried to push the Diskriter position), even when I specifically applied for the hospital position.  Good luck 

Many MTSO's are hiring only ICs now with no no benefits given.  Now given these are mostly smaller company's.  But why don't the hospitals form their own and contract out.  That's basically what some of the smaller MTSO's are.  They use the hospitals equipment.  I work for a small rural hospital as an independent contractor.  I worked inhouse for 2 years doing their Basic 4 and radiology reports.  For family reasons I was planning to leave but they offered to send me home to work.  Since my husband had medical benefits, I did not miss the benefits at the hospital.  But this situation worked out fine since I had a sick child that I was paying daycare for when he was not even there but home sick.  Ten years later, I am still working at home for the same hospital.  Hospital's work has grown and I am not willing to work so much now.  The hospital thought about hiring a MTSO but decided not to after they found out what they charged.  Which was about 3 times what I did.  They hired part-time Transcriptionist themselves to cover what I could not do.  So, to all those below who thinks it wound not benefit the hospitals, here's one story where everyone benefits. 

You would at least think we were worth some decent benefits, good insurance at the very least but I guess if you work at home, you dont get sick LOL.. Point well taken as I have worked in a hospital and that was exactly why they outsourced. The hospital budget did not allow for any more employees.

I like the idea of going to my job every day, doing it well, and being done with it. You are not penalized pay-wise if you dont happen to meet your line count and the incentives are nice. I'd say jump from that sinking ship and jump aboard job security.

produce the lines, but not necessarily the quality.  I know lots of MTs who never do any type of proofing before submitting work.  I used to work with one high producer, but the quality of her work was horrible.  This was several years ago and no spellchecker and no QA.  She would never survive in this business now with the error rate she had.  

I'm sure there are some quality MTs that can also produce a huge amount of lines because they learn to work smarter and can type like a demon. 

the pay scale and congrads to you! 

They have to process it all and mail us our vouchers anyway, why charge just to mail out a check? I prefer direct deposit myself anyway, but I have a friend who had her identity stolen and was advised to close all her accounts and not open anymore for a year. If she worked for this place she would have to pay $100 a month, just to get paid.

I used to have excellent credit too until my husband lost his job and I had surgeries 9 months apart. There are circumstances that do cause people to lose their credit.

Maybe some bad luck should hit you and then you would understand how some of us feel!!!!

Out of several acute care accounts, there is 1 account with a high percentage of ESLs.  When hiring for that account, management also makes it very clear regarding the ESLs.

I have been there 2+ years and I still love my job.  They treat us with the respect we deserve.  They expect high quality and they audit 3% of our work monthly.  The platform is great and exceed the line count every pay period.  We don't have to mess around with the demographics unless the dictator puts in the wrong MR# and then all we do is put the name and correct MR# if dictated. 

It sounds like you have spent too much time at the beach listening to the waves and in the sun as your brain is fried.  Who do you think you are talking to anyone this way??? 

I have a good job, make good money and I always have work but your attitude is just right down horrible.   

Since you don't spend much time here, I think you should just probably stay totally away if this is the kind of attitude you bring when you do decide to be here.

Maybe this is why you feel I'm high and mighty because you sound very childish or not educated.  I did not post the above to be demoralizing; I was referring to any MT thinking work is their property when it is not.  If you work for a company whether it be employee or IC, you are doing their work not your work. 

P/S:  I'll ask my 14 year old son what does my bad mean?  Maybe he can explain it to me because I am wondering if that is childish slang..

I have researched anything and everything I have ever delved into thoroughly before jumping on it.  If a newbie jumps right in without researching first, it is their own dang fault.  Geez.