Having been an MT/QA for many years, this IS a rare
Posted By: MT for many years on 2006-09-08
In Reply to: ...sorry. This is not a rare happening and will happen to you a few times more. nm - It stinks, but it's how it is.
happening. You might run into a company every now and then and if you do, DO NOT BE SHY about contacting them and telling them that you have to work and you expect this as soon as possible. Ask them when they will overnight it to you and ask to be notified later on that day of the tracking number for shipment of your equipment. Tell them if there is a problem to please advise you immediately so that you may pursue your job search.
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You * I * are a rare one....
I sure hope you are being compensated well for all the effort you obviously are putting into your profession. Keep up the good work. You will be one of the ones who will soon be posting that they are making over 50K, if that is what you want.
Good job. 
Maybe you are a rare one but
I have been QA and manager. Yes, QA gets credit for an entire report, but trust me when I say that usually one blank does not warrant QA unless the client wants no blanks. If you have a good MT and they can't figure it out, usually a rare good QA person might, but QA gives it their best shot.
Now, when you say easy. I wish I could tell you what I would have done if we had all good MTs! My last QA gig was with an all Mexican border account. I could do it without a problem, but the MTs left megablanks. We earned every bit of our keep. It is that way and has been with many companies. There are more MTs who do not know what the dictator is saying and will throw in something and it is QA's job to listen if we see anything suspicious. It takes time to take out text and add text.
Overall, it takes more time to QA a report than it does to just transcribe it yourself.
You sound like one of those good MTs.
Now, on what you said about making as much as MT and why settle for it? The most I made in QA was $20 an hour with bennies (good money), but the most I ever made in MT was over $50 an hour (I was really fast). I have over 30 years in the industry. You settle for it because you have to, but on my last gig when they asked me to go down $2/hr after I had been working there for 2 years at $17.50, I quit on the spot and then I got out of the biz (I can do other things and make that and have).
The poor QA who get paid by the line I feel for because that is chicken scratch for the most part and I won't do it. I didn't settle. I got out. Many have known no other biz so I know it is difficult to make a change.
I hate this industry, totally hate it. I am so glad to be out of it and nothing will make me go back. The disrespect I see is totally uncalled for and these companies are as about as professional as a big toe. When you have worked for really professional organizations outside MT, you would know what I mean and all industries have problems, but there is a definitive difference.
I feel for any QA people as well as the MTs because the money they pay nowadays is horrible. I made good money in management, but then that is another entirely different story.
That's right. It is rare to see them posted. They are out there
but usually the candidates hear about them through word of mouth and as you say, the people who get these jobs have been in the industry for many years and have many contacts. I see more and more recruiters who have been MTs and QA which is a very good idea.
That is rare that they hire PT...
I started out PT but eventually went to FT and that is how they want you to be if you start out PT.
You people are a rare breed!
Companies look far and near for op MTs. They are a rarity these days. No one wants to learn the medical technology anymore that it takes to do them. Some MTs can't do anything but clinic notes. So congrats, you are in a class all your own.
I agree - very rare occurrence - sm
But, I have seen it happen on several accounts.
Good for you. Consider yourself one of the rare lucky ones.
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Why are posts about Spheris so rare? Aren't they
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...sorry. This is not a rare happening and will happen to you a few times more. nm
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With a few rare exceptions, the companies I have worked for
don't share worker names - so how do you know these other people work for Allstate?
A position like this is a RARE one, newbies. I've been searching 11 yrs for a job like this and
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First you have to find a place that even does Op notes off premises. Very very rare anymore. :( nm
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Companies are hardly offer FT employees any decent benefits so I think is going to be rare to find
them for PT employees. I would love that too, unfortunately, I work too much just to get below average benefits. Best of luck in your search. Honestly, I think the only place you'll find benefits for part-timers is going in-house at a hospital.
I talked to them today. They want 3 years in a hospital or 5 years combination sm
hospital and at home or clinic and at home. For radiology, they want 3 years full time radiology. I thought they were very nice and I have a few friends that work for them and are happy. The pay seems average to high for what I am seeing now. I think they are 0.08 per line or 1.08 for radiology. Beats what I will have with the new MQ program.
Honda is 11 years old, 190,000 miles . Toyota was 15 years old and 279,000 superb
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I worked on site for many years. I've been doing this for 10 years... sm
I've worked on site, at home, for small MTSOs, for nationals, for hospitals. I've been paid per line, per minute, and per hour. I've been an MT and a QA. I have ALWAYS worked weekends and ALWAYS worked nights for the shift differential because MTs can't survive on 6 or 7 cents a line. At least I can't and I type 105 wpm.
I've BEEN dedicated from day 1, sister, so you are barking up the wrong tree.
15,000 lines per pay period. 8 years with KS, 6 years on this account! nm
Not going anywhere else!
30 years - this WAS my career. The last few years you guys have ruined it.
You work 9-5? Big deal. I work more than you do. I bet I work harder too. Treat US with respect, lady!
Don't talk to us like that and don't expect us to kiss your feet. Kiss ours for a change!
See if you'll be producing more after 30 years of MT'ing and at 50+ years old.
I don't think so. My income increased every year also, until I reached age 50 and 30 years of MT'g, been downhill ever since.
It wasn't tough 5 years ago. Or 10 years ago, yet
How to you spell
G-R-E-E-D ???
All the shifty, dishonest, greedy pigs in this country belong in JAIL.
Did MTfor 10 years; QA for 2 years and now
doing editing of speech/voice recognition. I find all three to be very different. MT you start with a blank page or a template, QA you have the whole document and you need to give a good quick read and check for correct name, MRN, formatting, and all blanks, etc., and if you know the MT you do not necessarily need to give the whole document voice to typed - editing is a whole 'nother thing. From what I have seen so far - you have a document and you cannot count on anything being correct - you need to change almost everything in some cases - which is more difficult than a blank sheet as there is a lot of deleting and it is confusing. It can be helpful because some of the medical words are in there and some of the drugs can be correct - and although I have found easier on the wrists some days - still very, very difficult. You must match exactly voice to type because you cannot count on anything to be correct - JMHO
I think it just boils down to years and years of
If you kick a dog often enough, it's going to not only turn on you, but other dogs as well. Even though I made more money as an in-house MT, our managers were the worst. All greedy, self-serving women who lied, cheated, and made their way up the management ladder by stepping on those of us who worked under them. They created hostility, distrust and ill will in the office by pitting MT against MT (I suppose they figured it would keep the MT's from turning on THEM!), and the suspicion it bred created a hostile workplace like no other. I finally couldn't take it anymore and quit to work at home, for less than half the money. I'm lucky - I have an employer that at least treats me well, even though the pay stinks. But from what I've read here, that isn't the norm at all. So it's little wonder so many at-home MT's are ready to chew someone's head off. They're tired of being lied-to, cheated on line counts, disrespected, and at the same time expected to produce more and more work, with little to no mistakes. So it's little wonder we're all a mite cranky.
Some of us have been at MDI for years and years. Why should we have to start all the way at the bot
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2 years ago
I worked as a statutory employee about 2 years ago and quit after about 6 months or so because I got a better offer. The people were nice but I ran out of work a lot. Also they still have me on their mailing list as a stat employee. Obviously they still don't realize that I haven't worked there in almost 2 years!
4-1/2 years for me too nm
9 years.
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Over 7 years, OTI
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18 years.
I have no idea what is happening for others or new plans or anything.
I've just gotten started. I didn't ask about any of that -- I just know what I was given.
Been with them 8 years
9 cents a line - NO RAISE
A little over 3 years. (NM)
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been with MQ for eight years and
never heard of such a thing, is this new/old/specific to your office ????
Doing this for 20 years
I had one hospital in Florida I worked for and they started out at 15.00 per hour, but the more you typed, the more you made. Their line counts though were based on 55 characters with spaces so it was very easy. If you typed 2000 lines per day, you got 20.00 per hour, and then for any after that they paid 8 cpl bonus, so the average monthly bonus was 1500.00. I made 65,000 for the first 9 months I worked there. There are still hospitals paying 12-21.00 for in-house work. In-house would be really the best way to make any money. I went to working at home because of illness. I made last year just under 50,000 but it nearly killed me because it was 7-days a week and up to 18 hour days. Now, I have seen ads for LPNs (1 year of study) making 15-20 per hour, and in most cases the admissions employees in hospitals make more than we do transcribing. Salaries for at home people have gone way way down since I started working at home in 2000. I've seen ads for 6 cpl for people with over 10 years experience and as long as people continue to take those jobs, the other companies won't pay us more either. Used to be we got overtime as well, but now they are going to lines per week basis and will let you work extra, but with no change in the line rate. It's really rather sad how the trend has been.
I get 10 cpl but have known them for years
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About 4 years ago...
problems getting paid. Not sure if things have changed since then
I have been with OSi for just under 2 years
OSi isn't the most popular national around, which is basically why I just keep my opinions to myself, but . . .
I have a very simple account (lots of normals) as my main account. While it isn't really challenging, even at 7.6 cpl as statutory I make plenty of money. I have run out of work on my main account a number of times, but I have 2 backup accounts.
I am never hassled by QA or my coordinator. I pretty much work when I want, have no line requirements or day or time issues to deal with.
I have been very happy there. There are bonuses at least monthly, and that adds to bottom line.
Go for it.
IC MT with 8 years exp.
I have been working an account for the local ER for about a year now at 12 per line. Now they have over-hired in house, and I am only called when they get behind. I am looking for part-time or p.r.n. work that will either pay this or at least get pretty close. Any ideas?
YES for 6 years now.
My dear friend, if a person is mad, they can express themselves on whatever grammar they want to express themselves. Since there are rules and regulations in this forum i am not using any foul words to hit these very evil people. You can rant whatever you want but the things in my Post is always the truth.
Wow, 14 years. They must be doing something right! NM
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I also have been doing this for 25 years and all
Accounts Payable. All my accounts are large teaching hospitals. Maybe a small hospital would work with you, but a large teaching hospital doesn't have time to mess with that. It doesn't matter if you tack on a charge for paying later than your invoices says, or whether you offer a discount for paying early, they STILL pay on their own schedule. Which is fine - I know how it works. I just go ahead and make my invoices net 30 days because I know that's how they pay anyway.
Now a doctor's office - that's a different situation and yes, they will be more accommodating. But I prefer acute care myself, and I prefer a teaching hospital, not someplace that does appendectomies and delivers babies and that's about it.
18+ years
she probably thought you might get her preferred job.
OTJ - 19 years. nm
OJT - 28 years.
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OJT - 15 years
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Been there for a few years..
and I like it. There is always lots of work with few slow times, usually just around the holidays. Pay is direct deposit and always on time. As an SE I get no pay raises but line rates are structured to higher line counts bring you higher line rates. I really have no complaints as they pretty much leave me alone to do my work. Hope this helps!
It's actually been going on for years
Posts crop up pretty frequently about them not paying actually. Personally, I worked for them about 3 years ago and had great difficulty getting paid. Many others were having trouble at that same time as well. Again, over the past 3 years, most of the posts I've seen about them on this board are about them not paying. I can't remember now what exactly their e-mail to me said, but it was along the lines of as an IC, I would get paid when they were ready to pay me and that there was nothing that said when they had to pay me. Of course, I had stopped working a few days after the paycheck didn't show up. I think it took about 3 months or so, maybe 4, to finally get paid.
6 years?
I thought they had only been around since 2001.
6 years?
My guess is that she means she's been doing medical transcription (not necessarily for FutureNet) for 6 years.
I did that years ago along with the law. They said
they would take it under consideration and never did it. The state now knows and they are going to sock it to them.
I did both for 4 years
I made MUCH more as an MT. I was paid $20 an hour, but that does not mean much when you have a few MTs who are sloppy, lazy, do not have a clue what they are doing, or the ESL dictator is practically speaking in their native tongue on some days! I had to literally retype parts of many reports at times. Too tedious. I would rather just type my own work and be done with it! To each his own. :-)
17 years here
I was just offered 8.5, and I think that's as high as I'm gonna get offered.
Been doing this 25 years, and it seems
like is all going backwards. With what is being offered out there now, it feels like I am being set back 20 years and I worked hard to gain the knowledge and put in the years of experience. Wish I was in a position to get out of this field altogether at this point.
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