How are the DRC/Acusis MTs holding up? Are you
Posted By: all still there? NM Wondering on 2007-08-29
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"hand holding"
No.....hand holding I don't need...nor do I need EXPERIENCE...I have been doing this for 20 years...so think about it!!...I am talking about little things that add up that they have NOT TRANSMITTED to you....a physician list for letters that were not given to and I had to look up every address......(oh we are working on getting a list)....pfffff....also had NO CLUE...where these physicians were and trying to find out where and why? Experience I have...just that I am not a yellow pages directory and they had very POOR COMMUNICATION...I was trying to be polite but since YOU ARE NOT.......I will lay it out....they are a TERRIBLE organization to work for....Also....try to put everything in microsoft word and then transmit, etc......lots of BS to put up with. And waiting for work...NOT KNOWING if you have work in your q....waiting for them to let you know if there is work......but yet you had to have it done @ THEIR convience even if it meant missing dinner with the family because I FORGOT to put it in your q....puuuhhhlllease!
The company is getting by on yanking peoples chains and empty promises.
Wow! How are your hands still holding out
typing that much for that many years! After 10 years, my hands are killing me after half a day. I used to be able to do that much, but it hurts too much now.
Really? Your STM should be holding these at least monthly
I would check with your STM to find out when he/she holds her team conference calls.
Anyone holding out on PC check at the A? nm
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I am not holding out hope - already looking elsewhere
The new accounts aren't coming, several current ones are leaving, and layoffs have started, even in QA. They hired in anticipation of the new accounts, so now they have those MTs plus the MTs from the accounts leaving to redistribute into the already shrinking workload. It does seem like this is a situation being experienced not just at the Web, but that doesn't help us pay our bills. I think we need to find a company on the upswing.
Heartlanders: A week later.. how are we holding up? sm
I don't know about everyone else, but the shock hasn't worn off yet and I'm still in disbelief. I've had the worst week of my life trying to figure out how I am going to survive, especially after seeing those COBRA rates - no favor to us! 
What's holding you back is your address -
If you'd called them from Bangalore, you'd probably have gotten responses to every single application.
If there is a person holding each end of the pole, does that make them
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Good advice! I was holding a grudge
I realized that while I was angry and at home all the time with a grudge, my friend was out dancing and going on with her life. I was the one caught in a trap. Be above all that, forgive, turn the page and go on.
Dear SM thank U for not holding your tongue any longer
You don't even know what you are talking about. They had no choice but to be open about offshoring after the best QA manager EVER got fired for accidentally forwarding an email from India.
If they had nothing to hide she should have never been fired in the first place.
Trust me you are much better off not taking the OSi job.
At least 20 or 25 of us left that place specifically because of what they did to her.
That was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG Never looked back
try holding cntr down and using mouse scroll.
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No hand-holding here at all. Experienced! But truly the WORST ACCTS.
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I can do that as I expect a lot of places are holding off hiring now because work does tend to get a
little slow at this time of the year. I can manage with what I have until January.
Why would anyone be so adamant about holding on to such a crud-ball, crap-paying, loser of a job lik
If this is what it takes to get us off our butts and get a respectable job that pays more than a 16-year-old makes babysitting, so be it. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise.
I for one am outta here. Good luck!
Here, here, I agree. At one time, I was even accussed of holding MY templates hostage. Templates
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Acusis
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acusis
So you're telling me that DRC got sold to Acusis? What phone call is everyone talking about?
Acusis
The hospital we were outsourced from now uses Acusis for about 80% of their transcription work. It is my understanding they are 100% Indian with no U.S. MTs. Also lots of quality issues. They send a ton of work back with blanks which the hospital then has to pay in-house MTs to review and fix. Go figure.
Are you Acusis -
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Acusis dba DRC? nm
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Acusis/DRC
I too am worried and feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. And it probably will... Perhaps the customers are worried too and have started farming work out elsewhere to test the waters before they drop A/D altogether. One can only guess. All I can do is shake my head and say, what a shame -- DRC was the best -- what a shame.
Acusis??
I am in the process of testing with Acusis. Can anyone give me the good/bad and the ugly about this company.
TIA
ACUSIS US
consistently run out of work. I have my resume out. Been working there fore 6-1/2 years and now it is time to go with no work every week.
There is an Acusis
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Acusis
 Great company!!! It was great as DRC and still is as Acusis. The platform is the best, the pay is higher than most companies, and there is plenty of work. It does slow down around holidays (just like every other company...why doctors think they deserve a vacation I'll never understand :). I have never not gotten my Keystrokes in though...yes, they do pay per keystroke. I highly recommend them to anyone wanting to work for a company who expects high quality work!!
Acusis/DRC
What a time to find out about the loss of their biggest client -- just before the holidays. How many will be out of work? 
Acusis/DRC
Appreciate the words of encouragement. Someone posted a note that Spheris got this account. Wonder if that is true. I too loved the account and am so very sorry this has happened. I almost feel like those doctors and NPs and patients are part of a very large extended family. Quite a few got married while I was on this account. Am very worried about loss of benefits though, especially now with a very sick husband. What will you do?
DRC/Acusis
haven't gotten a certified letter, but keep getting the no more files available message when I try to get work from my account for the past 2 days...This is certainly upsetting!
former DRC/ACusis
Yes, I did and I only started this week and love it. It is Landmark Transcription. They use Bayscribe, which is in itself is not the best (I found out there is something wrong with each/every platform) but the company is wonderful, the account I am on is a dream with only 1-2 ESLs. I have only been there a week and so far it has been absolutely terrific. I will let you know if and when things change.
Acusis
Does anyone have any current info on Acusis? How is the workload? How is the new platform?
Acusis
Does anybody work here or have knowledge about the company? At least as far as pay and/or benefits in comparison of some other companies?
Thanks!
Acusis
A friend of mine went there from Medquist and she absolutely loves it. Says she makes good money, is treated well and highly recommends it. I have no first-hand experience but I trust my friend.
Acusis PT
Part time employees must produce 600 lines per day, or 3000 per week. I'm pretty sure you have to be full time to receive health benefits, but I'm not sure about the 401K and PTO benefits.
Hope this helps!
Acusis
Anyone currently working for Acusis? I would really like to find out anything about them. TIA
Acusis? Anyone? sm
I saw someone just asked about this company and no one had anything to say. Is there anyone that works there? Good/bad info? Good dicators? How about insurance? Pay? Thanks!!!!
Acusis pay cut
I'm curious...I have read on here about Acusis cutting pay...Has this really happened to anyone and is it going to be done to all MTs working for Acusis? TIA
Acusis pay cut
Also heard same thing about pay cut from a friend of a friend, but would be very short-sighted on Acusis' part to risk losing good employees if goal is to expand their business, only answer can be is they don't care one bit about how they treat their employees, so no one would be safe, I would think.
Pay cut at Acusis
Yes, it is true. They have cut editor's pay by 0.03 cpl. I don't think the MTs have been cut yet, but don't think for 1 minute it's not going to happen. It will happen. Ohhh for the good ol' days....when life was great at DRC!!!
Acusis did
We got a coffee mug with a lid (don't know if it's for travel because the base is too large to fit in a cup holder) that is really very nice. In addition, they had M-F contests with 2 winners each day getting a $25 gift card, along with an essay contest- although the topics seemed like they'd be pretty tough to write on- a positive Acusis experience, why you would recommend MT as a career, or the joys of VR. Needless to say, I'm simply enjoying my coffee cup.
Acusis did
We got a coffee mug with a lid (don't know if it's for travel because the base is too large to fit in a cup holder) that is really very nice. In addition, they had M-F contests with 2 winners each day getting a $25 gift card, along with an essay contest- although the topics seemed like they'd be pretty tough to write on- a positive Acusis experience, why you would recommend MT as a career, and the joys of VR. Needless to say, I'm simply enjoying my coffee cup.
Acusis
Acusis has a program where you can buy a computer through them. If I recall correctly, it's around $900 and does not include a monitor; you have to make $100 payments per pay. In my opinion it's overpriced for the computer you get. I would also say the same for a lot of the computer places where they do no credit checks and you pay weekly; add up the costs, and you end up paying $1500 for a computer worth half that. If I were you, I'd probably try to find a way to check craigslist to pick up a second hand one. Another great place to try for electronics is Tiger Direct. I've seen laptops and CPUs for $300. These may not be as 'souped up', but they're more than adequate for the job we do.
That's why I'm an Ex-Acusis
I started bailing about a month ago and two weeks completed the process. My top tier account was equilibrated down a level, and so to minimize the equilibrating pay cut, I stayed at the top tier and took the account from Hades (I still lost almost 0.005 cpl, which does add up). Over the course of my tenure with them, the M-F 10-6 which they hired me for dried up, and I was putting in my weekend time and working 10-12 hours a day...not so much because there wasn't work (although that did arise on occasion), but because it took me that long to get through the dregs left for us.
So I bit the bullet and took a job that paid a 'mere' 8 cpl. However, I've found that I type more in 5 hours than I did in the 10+ I was giving Acusis. Unfortunately, the pit I dug myself hanging it Acusis has me so far behind I'm only a half-step ahead of the repo man and foreclosure, but I've got the time now to get a second job and hopefully, in about six months when I've hopefully got life on an even keel again, I can shed the PT job and exist quite nicely on my one, which fortuitously happens to be a non-offshorer.
Perhaps if the Axis of Evil (which looks like it's going to become a Rectangle of Revulsion with Transcend's admittance), has nothing but the dregs left to type the dregs, they'll figure out that it might not have been such a wise idea selling out those of us who have spent a lifetime speaking the American language and using our brains rather than just phonetics to really become medical language specialists.
Acusis
I have never worked for them but a woman I knew at MQ went with them when I went with MDI when the Q started to go south. She told me that the company does send work to India and in fact, has offices there. What the ownership is, I am not sure. I think the Indians have at least part-interest, but cannot say for sure; I seem to remember that is what she told me. My friend wanted me to come with her, but, like you, I would not work for a company that offshored, so went instead with MDI. (Fat lot of good that did me.)
or Acusis!
Any information about Acusis
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anyone work for Acusis?
I already know that they outsource. I am just looking for more information about this company.
Acusis bought out DRC . .nm
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RE Acusis Buy-Out, What About US-Only Clients?
Something does not add up here, because many of the bought-out company's current clients vehemently refuse to work with anyone who outsources. Won't they drop new company outright and have to look for a new MT provider?
Acusis bought DRC.
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According to Acusis, that's what their new US-based
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Or maybe Spheris will buy Acusis -- you never know! nm
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