Have to punch a clock at Webmedx too. I even worked briefly for a place sm

that had a little popup window come up when you had been gone too long and you had to fill in the reason why you were gone.  A little bit too Big Brother for me. 

If a company does not make overtime mandatory, and I simply want to make some extra money and get some more lines in, I ought to be able to do so without the company being forced to pay me time and a half.  Sometimes we shoot ourselves in the foot demanding this and demanding that, and soon we end up with less than we had before ....but that is just my opinion.

• I guess I see things differently, as I do not know what all of the hoopla is about not paying OT. sm - LTMT
  • I agree with the OP and I work for TT sm - Because I am a break taker
  • Your OT goes into slot machines, that's why. - gambling is expensive nm
    • You talked about gambling in the payday thread too. nm - As you supposed to make sense?
      • I bet the people who own the co. do. - gambling is expensive nm
        • And if the owners are gamblers, who cares? I'm glad you entertain yourself. - Are you supposed to make sense?
  • It's a big deal because laws are being violated SM - it's the law, that's why
    • Time clocks for compliance - LK
  • Pretty much agree - LK
    • Agree with you both, this is how the decline of MedQuist started, sm - MT2
      • Have to punch a clock at Webmedx too. I even worked briefly for a place sm - LTMT
      • Absolutely true about the Q. Couldn't agree more with you. NM - Ex-Q

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I wasn't that crazy about their platform -- seemed slow and rather klunky, but maybe I just did not stay long enough to give it a chance.  Pay was a bit low, I thought (9 cpl), but it was always paid ontime and with direct deposit.  The people there are absolutely GREAT to work with, in my opinion.  You could definitely do worse.  (I was only working part-time and took a better paying job, in case you're wondering why I would leave if it was so great.)

Good luck!

Super nice people.  QA was really nice and helpful.  The account I was on was a big group of long term care hospitals. I worked in the evenings, so I had a lot of facilities feeding in to me. They do that to make sure that the people who work in the evenings don't have to worry about running out of work.   That part made it difficult, though, because I rarely had the same dictator twice.  Heavy ESL, at least on the account I was on.  You spell everything out - everything.  Even normal abbreviations like PEG and PICC.

They are all about the BOS.  That's probably what I had the hardest time with.  I want things to be right just as much as the next person, but it got to the point where I was stressing so much about stylistic issues that I was making content errors.

It was a fairly new type of work for me, so I had to look up a lot of bacterias and pulmonary phrases that I didn't know before, which slowed me down initially.

It wasn't a good fit for me, but someone with more experience than I've got would probably do well there. The platform is something they call IType (I think) which wasn't any better or worse than any of the other couple of platforms I've worked on.

I did clinic work, for which I was paid 7-1/2 cpl (you get 1 cent more for acute care, I think), which was extrmely low for IC work, but the work was easy, and I liked that they paid every week.   The wav files are downloaded from an FTP site along with the appt list for the doc you are assigned, then your finished work is  uploaded to the FTP site.  There was no special platform, just Word.   I don't know about how the hospital side was done.  The people there are great, and the QA people are friendly and helpful.  The pay was always on time, direct deposit. 

Hope this helps!  

The people are absolutely GREAT, and the account I had was not difficult.  I thought their platform was a bit cumbersome and I could not import my abbreviations into their expander, so my line count took a hit.   They paid better than some, though, at 9-1/2 cpl.

Good luck.

BUT, it is not worth the time.  The work was easy -- clinic work -- and I was already famliar with Bayscribe, so I thought maybe it would justify taking a lower rate of pay (8-1/2 cpl, I think) as the ease of the work would result in more lines.  WRONG ... Their method of line counting hurts you tremendously.  They do not pay for spaces, and then add in 10%.  At MDI, I average 300-350 lines per hour doing acute care.  With eTranz's method of line counting, I only did 250 lines with my fingers flying!  SO ........ WAY less pay, much fewer lines ... didn't make sense to jump ship for that. 

And, I must say, I found their QA person to be very snippy/snotty.  Any questions I had were usually met with some kind of sarcastic reply.  No one needs that. 

If I had seen all of the warnings about no pay, I would not have even considered the position in the first place.  Sometimes I suffer from the is the grass greener somewhere else syndrome, but I never leave because fact is, it isn't (for me, that is).

Good luck in your job search.  :-)

They do have a thing where you have to get a paper check for the first 90 days, then you can have direct deposit.   The account that I was on used ExText.

Hope this helps.  Good luck. 

employees more benefits than the people at home, stating that working at home was a benefit in and of itself, and, unfortunately, those needing to work at home because of family or other reasons apparently bought into it.  And yes, somewhere along the way, a lot of people have seen medical transcription at home as a bunch of mommies sitting in their jammies, bouncing babies on their knees.  Not that there is anything wrong with it, but I think that is sometimes why they feel free to pay low wages, give little or no benefits, etc.  They view it as mommy making pin money or whatever.  For most of us, obviously, that is not the case.  The women I know who work at home and have children are every bit as professional as someone you'd find in an office.

I pointed out to this company that by working at home instead of in their office, I saved them the money for office space and the need to provide equipment, office furniture, resource materials, etc., and I didn't understand how that added up to me getting LESS benefits than those in-house.  Needless to say, I did not stay long.

I do not have children.  I work at home simply because I can make more money beign paid by the line than being paid by the hour, which is what is offered for in-house positions where I live.  When my mom began having health problems a few years ago, it was a blessing as I was able to flex my time and be there for her when she needed me, so I fully understand how much moms appreciate having the flexibility to be there for their families.  It is sad in general how much the pay scale and benefits have gone down for the profession over the years.  I made more 15 years ago than I make today, but then again there was not the competition from overseas, voice recognition, etc. back then.  I guess everything changes and all we can do is try to adapt.

As I am writing this, I realize I probably got way off topic.  Guess I should get ready for my shift and burn off some of this energy.   Hope everyone has a happy productive day.  Remember, we're all on the same side.

Are they picky that you must punch in to the minute you are scheduled, or are they flexible that they just want you to punch in when you work, not necessarily to the minute of your schedule? 

I'm not sure I can go back to a time clock either.  I don't have a problem punching when I work, I just have a problem sticking to a very specfic schedule. 

I don't remember anything specifically negative about them.  Just that the pay was kind of low and I didn't stay long because of that.  The work was okay.  Mostly local accounts from the Louisville area.

Sorry, the older I get, the shorter my memory.  I can barely remember yesterday! 

and difficult and slow to work with, I thought.  I love cardiology, but this was not a good experience.  Perhaps others have had more positive expeiences with the company. 

If you like cardiology, you might try Cardioscribes.  I think they are a great company and the system is easy to use.

Good luck!

That was a long time ago, though, and things could have changed.  If I remember, they paid decent wages.

Good luck. 

with them and right now I have to clock in and out and hate it.  I wonder if I'm jumping right back into the same situation as I was told they, too, have a time clock.  After being an IC for so many years, I really hate this.

So, how is it? Do you find that Webmex is a little flexible at least?  I just don't know if I should keep looking or what.  Thanks so much for anyone with experience with their time clocks!

for the place I'm working for now.  My very first job right out of school was for a woman who owned her own company, and she had a son and a niece working for her.  The niece did more than her fair share, and in fact we became good friends after our dogs started having play dates together on our days off.  Her son, on the other hand, did all the easy psych work with all the templates and then went on to steal the ER work (also only docs with templates), and surpise... he always had the highest line counts of anyone.  Those were the days also when we got paid for headers and footers, patient info, everything, so he was making out like a bandit. 

Also worked for MQ in-house when they had an office here close to my home.  Some people sat there and typed the hardest account we had all day, every day and barely made their minimum lines, and there was this one person who would type nothing but ER notes that had very long templates and ended up being an average of 3 pages each.  Then she had the nerve to brag about how big her checks were with all her bonuses and incentive.  I got a chance to type those two days in a row and I made 1400 lines a day more than I usually did on my main account. 

I say share the fortune, be it good or bad.  The sooner we all get the bad work out, the sooner we can all get to the good work and start making money.  I also had one supervisor tell me that I do the harder work because I make more cpl, but hey, if you are sitting there typing easy stuff all day and using templates, you are making more money in the long run.