Glad I'm not the only one who saw how ridiculous those claims were. :-) sm
Posted By: LTMT on 2009-05-22
In Reply to: sorry LTMT I didn't see you post before sm - just wondering
No wonder MT wages are going down. We have dufuses out there making 2/3 what they were and thinking they are ahead! 
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Insurance claims
Did anybody else receive their check from Medscribe NJ for the insurance claim typing yet?
There are also traveling claims examiners. (sm)
While I never experienced anything like Kforce, I did experience my share of changes working for several temp agencies that hired medical claims processors that travel. The pay was always on time, they paid for the hotel and the rental car, gave us a weekly "per diem" allowance each week for meals, gas, etc. BUT, some of the people they hired on these assignments would send chills down your spine. You had people using the rental cars to transport drugs, using gas money to buy crack, fighting in the hotels, setting the apartments on fire accidentally, arguing with roommates over who would do the dishes, sexually harassing coworkers on the same assignments, the list is endless. Not only that, but after awhile, as a traveler, you get tired of living out of a suitcase and rushing to catch flights and running through airports like O.J. Simpson in a Hertz rental car commercial. For all of those reasons, I decided to come in off the road and work at home. Also, there was one agency that didn't pay for the hotel or the rental car. The manager told us that sometimes we'd have to "whip out that credit card!" and pay for everything, and they would reimburse us. I didn't do it, and they ended up paying for my hotel and car, but I worked with some coworkers that were owed $10,000 in hotel and car expenses, and were still waiting to be reimbursed because the manager said he had he had the receipts in his suitcase. Some travelers had maxed out their credit cards paying for hotel and car expenses. So, bottom line is, travelers go through a lot, and it's not as glamourous as it sounds (not by a long shot).
All of the above poster's claims are true
Ditto to everything above. AWESOME place to work. Transtech takes me back 10 years, when this profession was respected, valued, and actually enjoyable.
once filed, both parties must appear at small claims
court. If party that didn't pay doesn't show, then a judgment will be made against them. If the person filing the complaint in small claims doesn't show, it will be thrown out.
The only thing wrong with this is that the claims are false. sm
I have been with KS for 3 years. I am treated fairly. I was also the lead for the person who is named as the person putting in the lawsuit. That person was fired for quality issues and is obviously trying to get even with the company.
Lawsuits can be filed. Filing one or having one out there does not mean that the company is guilty. If that was the case, there would be no reason for a case to be filed; you could basically just send a company a bill for whatever you want.
OK, there is ONE person who claims they make money with VR.
Anyone else?? Hello?
Thought not.
That's right. Back up your claims with facts, not with lunatic remarks.
Step up to the plate and post in more of a professional manner. Otherwise, it serves no real purpose. MTStars was not created for people to come only to post their personal smear campaign.
Take her to small claims court. Good luck!
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I am filing a small claims action this week.
Have one doctor that I had problems with and only typed for him foer three months. He was unethical but then he felt that I should not charge for anything that was not actually typed, i.e. if he did a normal exam, etc. So we had a falling out and he owes me $200 and he has threatened fraud against me, etc. But I told him he could not bully me and that we would leg small claims court settle the matter. Am giving him a three day notices sent in a signed reeturn receipt and if he does not pay I will go to court. So if you are an IC that is your course of action. I work directly for the doctor, if you are with a service and you know the docs that you are typing for, can tell your MTSO you are informing them that they do not pay their IC's and you will not longer be able to work or provide services, but that depends if you signed a contract and stated you would not have any contact with the accounts. My first suggestion, write a last demand letter and outline that you will file small claims court proceedings and send a copy of that to their accounts.
Good luck.
I am finding them to be great. I have had a few major claims since they changed to them. sm
Everything has been covered. My meds have been covered. My claims have been paid quickly. I paid my deductible and everything else has been covered, totalling over $12,000. I am very happy with Guardian.
I hope you sued in small claims court! -(nm)
eSkribe claims to be based in Ohio, but is an Indian company
Check out their website at eSkribe.com.
WAIT! Before this gets further out of hand with the nay-sayers on here, talking about small claims
that, have you tried talking to them about a different account? They are pretty easy to work with, not impossible like the one I left that starts with M and ends with Q. (kind of)
My company claims the offshore work is excellent. In fact, I
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I am so glad, so very glad that finally I have reached
the age that if we are low on work, I just take off. No problem at all and love the extra day or so off. I now have worked since the 70s and finally made to retirement age, get SS plus other retirement money coming in and thank the good Lord do not have to worry about if there is work or not. BTW, when I worked inhouse never ran out of work ever, only when transferring out to company do they run out of work. If I had to raise a family now I would most certainly cross train on other accts at my place but only have 1 that I work on, by choice.
Thanks! I'm glad to hear that, I didn't think anyone used it anymore! I'm glad to hear so
I'll definitely check them out!
That is ridiculous
I never heard anything so ridiculous - none of the companies do what? want you to earn too much? LOL. Every penny you put in your pocket is probably two in theirs. Companies want you earning as much as you can.
This is ridiculous...sm
I received an email today regarding an employment application I had submitted some time ago. I currently work as an IC and am very happy with my job, so the application must have been submitted at least 6 months ago. First of all, the email does not state the name of the company that I supposedly applied to. It is three sentences long and states that they are looking for ICs to work from home. They will pay 6.5 cpl without spaces! Attached is a list of their computer requirements. The email states that if I meet the requirements to contact them and they will direct me to their testing site.
I have about 20 years of experience as an MT. What is going on with this field that a company thinks that 6.5 cpl is a respectable rate for a seasoned MT? Not to mention not putting the name of the company in the email...so I don't even know who I'm dealing with. And, not paying for spaces?!?!? I will not work for a company that does not pay for spaces. A space is a keystroke. It should be counted. Spaces don't get into a document by magic!!
I have a good mind to respond to this email and tell them exactly what I think of their offer, but then again, it probably wouldn't do a bit of good.
ridiculous
That statement is absolutely ridiculous. The QA manager is the most easy person to get along.
That's ridiculous
I have to say that I used to be MTSO and while I was not rich, I definitely made more than the people who worked for me...if you don't, even part of the time, then you are doing something wrong and why be in business? And yes, most of the MTSOs that I know (and I do know 5 of them right in my general area) do live in the very best neighorhoods, have 5000 sq foot houses, and if not vacations homes, then quite a bit of money in the bank.
This is ridiculous
3.5 cpl is ridiculous! The only way it could be any good at all is if you JUST had to fill in the blanks (nothing else). No 100% proofing. No new MTs. Maybe one or two accounts at most. And IF IT IS NOT being transcribed by offshore MTs. That's the only way 3.5 cpl would be worth it. Also, if companies would STOP paying QA on a production rate, it would help the industry! Being paid on production to ensure quality is an oxymoron. It makes no sense. It says hey, do your job perfect but the more the merrier. Its a sore subject with me, and I'm hoping that we stand up and stop accepting QA positions on a production pay. Maybe eventually the companies will have no choice but to go back to hourly pay and pay as what we are worth! If you have to proofread any more than filling in blanks, you're getting ripped off big time at 3.5 cpl. (mtsunite.com)
that is ridiculous IMO. SM
They are definitely short-changing you by giving you $3.00 for the first page and then $1.50 for subsequent pages in a report. That would be equivalent to being paid, for example, .08/per line for the first page( working for a company) and then .04/line for each subsequent page of a report. That is extremely unfair. Charge for what you produce. I had my own clients for years, and depending on the going rate in your area, I certainly would not go lower than .10/line (or figure out the equivalent if you have to charge per page). I am being conservative here as this is low rate. Also, if printing each page, add a percentage to that line rate. Whole different ballgame when you have to print and deliver reports. Time consuming and more cost to you. Their offer per page is ridiculous. Think how much money that patient is billed for the visit, and then see the pennies that you would make by producing one of the most important components (the medical report). The medical report is as important as the actual care the patient receives. If they do not agree with your charges, let them go with a company who will charge them much more, and they will likely call you back. I once had a client who wanted digital dictation so I footed a hefty TASP service bill every month so my docs could call in their dictation. They then requested that I print and deliver the finished reports. Not! They were upset because I denied their request, and ended up going with a large national and pay a much higher line rate. They still did not accomplish having their reports printed for them. They called me back, but I was already involved with a new client who appreciates me and does not try to get everything for nothing. Good luck in whatever you decide, but don't settle for less than you are worth!
7 cpl is ridiculous! sm
I was thinking about applying here, but I definitely will not be wasting my time taking the test and interviewing with them now! I don't have the experience you have (I have about 11 years now), but there is no way I would work for that!
Thanks for posting that and saving me some time.
ridiculous is right
You're not the only person I've heard say this and it's a shame this is happening. I realize we MTs cannot expect to be paid higher wages when the services are suffering as well.
But I see too many ways for this whole mess the transcription profession finds itself in now to just fail and do a turnaround. The government insists on privacy protection of medical records, then allows us to send them overseas with little if any regulation. What about taxes and Social Security loss due to this? The Department of Labor gives us our own classification (a bit of recognition for us) but our pay is not on par with other professions in the same classification. AAMT wants certification to be mandatory but what's the incentive to study and work so hard for it if it doesn't make a much more substantial increase in our salaries than a penny a line? Yes, that can add up, but it should be more, way more. Physicians want cheap rates with excellent quality but how many qualified MTs are willing to work for pennies before feeling used, frustrated, burned out? How many young people are willing to enter a profession with such low wages and have to work hard and wait years to achieve even that?
In the end, I don't see how all this VR and offshoring and underbidding it is going to benefit anyone except lawyers who will profit from suits brought about by privacy violations, malpractice suits due to the result of physicians depending on missing and/or wrong information in the medical record, misplaced records, dictation getting lost in the process of transfer between here and there, etc. How many service owners will want to continue making as little profit as they do now (small ones)? I also see coming an overall shortage of qualified MTs who can understand the American physicians who are impossible dictators and the ESLs. What incentive do the new MTs have to hang in there and strive for this other than a sense of accomplishment but that doesn't pay the bills. Yes, if you work long hours and/or multiple jobs you can do well, but is this what it has come down to? And how many will be willing to do this for any length of time when they have other options?
It's all going too fast to prevent errors, serious errors. I think we will be needed again, hopefully paid a higher salary again like so many years ago, but not until a tragedy happens and America wakes up to how these allegedly cost-saving methods of doing medical transcription is hurting the economy and the physicians start getting only what they are willing to pay for. There are the lives of the human beings (patients) involved here. This isn't about producing just a product (like a garment) in another country. Medical transcription involves too many people in too many areas of medicine to let it totally falter. Something has to give at some point.
One thing I'd like to see is for the insurance companies to raise the fees for physicians and services who offshore since their transcription is more prone to error than if it was done by a knowledgeable native American MT who knows our language, and also because it leaves the country thereby jeopardizing the patient's protection and privacy since these other countries do not have the security measures that America does.
This is ridiculous.
Two MTs fighting like children.
that is ridiculous!
I do not work for TT, but for DRC. We get morning reports and in one it said to enjoy this downtime. We are employees, not ICs. I think if you told employees who physically come to work everyday to go home and just enjoy time off they would probably start looking for another job. People become employees so as to have steady work, not to get stupid enjoy comments.
Ridiculous
I sure think it would be a mistake to take a job for this amount with your experience!
Ridiculous
There is no way any MT in their right mind should take this position. MTs transcribing heavy ESL at most companies are paid at least 9 cpl.
That is ridiculous.......sm
Diskriter is always placing ads, I just started and I have 3 accounts I work on, NOT ENOUGH WORK ON ANY!! grrrrr. I guess i will be saying bye bye soon.
This is getting ridiculous....
Totally wrong management.
The right hand does not know what the left is doing!
That's ridiculous!
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Yes, it seriously is ridiculous but
I have to reiterate that I really do like working with MDI and other than the disappointingly poor cpl they are paying for these VR accounts I think they are one of the best companies out there to work for. Just don't work on a VR account  . I was told, though, (of course  ) that we should be able to do triple the line counts on eScription;however, I STRONGLY question this and do not believe it possible but I guess I'm gonna find out.
Ridiculous
I'd consider that an absolute insult. I don't care how good the company has been, I'd be out of there as fast as I could. Companies that offer pay like that are driving the MT field into the ground, and good MTs shouldn't stand for it.
Ridiculous
I just keep the insurance for doc visits and meds, God forbid IF i would ever need to be hospitalized for surgery or a procedure, I would have to go to the University medical center as an indigent patient because no way I can even come up 2500 deductible....We really need health care like Canada has...it may not be great but it would help so many people who are dying because they cannot afford any type of healthcare
she said 8 cpl typ and 4 for VR, ridiculous... sm
you sure proved your point... she ain't making better than typing. Everyone knows that VR is a loser for the fast typing MT.
that's ridiculous
No one plays favorites. If you don't show up for work, you get written up. If you fail your QA, it is addressed. Get a job on site somewhere and try not showing up or come in late or leave early and see what happens. Do sloppy work, make extremely careless and dangerous errors. You'll be in the unemployment line. Transcription companies should be no different.
That's ridiculous (sm)
It's called work flow. If you've been in this industry for even a while, you should realize that this is the nature of the business. Recruiters are told by management to hire or stop hiring based on the flow of work, and, yes, it changes from day to day. What is suspicious? They have the right to not hire you based on any whim, so there is nothing suspicious. Silly post. It's not all a plot, you know.
Ridiculous
I'm that person. This is a frivilous lawsuit and will be proven as such.
RIDICULOUS!!
OMG $10 per hour for QA with 5 years experience. IC, acute care. Are you kidding me???
It's getting ridiculous
The company I work for just went to a bigger quota and they won't count by lines, which is not fair. There are a few accounts which are short clinic notes, fill in the blank only, and radiology, those are simple to get out. All the rest, ALL of them are 100% listen, give feedback, and are multiple pages long and it's absolutely not fair. They are forcing people not to look over the entire report thoroughly AND asking for 99.5% quality at the same time. Puleese....just another excuse. A 7 page discharge counts the same as a one paragraph clinic note.
Ridiculous!
Geesh! Is this what is has come down to? This industry was frustrating when I left 2 years ago; but my goodness, this is just unreal. So I'm going to type important medical documents for .055 a line. Unreal. I need a job desperately, but if I had to choose, I'd rather wait tables than work in a sweat shop. Unreal. If the line requirement is 1000 at .08, that would actually be 1300 lines at .055 a line. No thanks. I knew it was too good to be true.
That is ridiculous
So they paid you what every piddly amount they are paying for actual transcription! That is why I don't want to do editing/VR - we are just being taken advantage of. As it seems most doctors are ESL and sometimes we can barely understand them - how the heck is a machine supposed too. I would definitely keep track of those job #s and say something.
Ditto -- that's ridiculous to go through
for an at home position. I found out that the companies that are doing all these testing and background checks, take the info you give them and sell your name to ------- MARKETING COMPANIES! ----Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Like we don't get enough crappy phone calls during the day and evening !!! LMAO
4 cents?!?! That is ridiculous!
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Unprofessional and ridiculous! sm
Unless it is done in conjunction with a real test.
Please, name that company. Ridiculous.
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That's absolutely ridiculous. NM
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You are a bit on the ridiculous side.
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It was not a ridiculous question....
I think some people just sit on here all day to post rude comments because they have nothing better to do in life. Sometimes questions come about and sometimes people ask them here to get answers. That is the point of this board. Then, if you cannot get an answer to your question here, you can always call your sup and get an answer. I love the fact that I don't need to both my supervisor if I can get an answer here. :)
Wow $260 per month!! ridiculous nm
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Not only is there ridiculous discussion
there is also a lot of thinly-veiled shilling for people to work cheaply for Proveros......
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