I'm perplexed. The few times I visit this board, ...SM
Posted By: lace on 2007-02-02
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I frequently see people questioning companies, negating companies, etc. I can only speak for myself and 10 MT friends that I have had in the business for 10+ years now, we have almost all stayed with the same company for many years. We are all quite happy and paid a fair rate for what we are worth in experience and skills. When I peruse this board, I find that the profession comes across very negative. With all due respect, are the majority on this board new MTs trying to find their way, or MTs who cannot fit in with a company for whatever reasons (accuracy, speed, etc.) and shed such a terrible light on the profession. Y'all would not believe the positive networking with successful Transcriptionist who have truly been rewarded in their careers. Please know that if you are truly talented in this field and have built the number of experienced years required, this is not natural to see this negativity. I have been with a company (approx. 50 MTs for almost 10 years now) and have been treated and paid what I am worth. I'm beginning to think the majority of posts here are from those who cannot make it in this professsion. Believe it or not, most companies can recognize so within the first several weeks of work. No offense to anyone. I am sure there are many here who are much more talented than I am in different apsects of life. My point is: If you are truly educated and gifted in the MT field, you will continue to prosper. If not, this is not your calling. Try something different.
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I'd pay a little visit to the LABOR BOARD, myself. sm
Many years ago, my last paycheck from an MT company I worked for BOUNCED. Not, once, but TWICE. (I put it thru a 2nd time at the owner's branch). So, I went to the Labor Board for help. They not only got me the money from the last paycheck, but also some insurance reimbursement I was owed to me. Apparently this had happened to others at that place, as well. A former co-worker told me the L.B. paid the COMPANY a visit one day, and they went through her office with a fine toothed comb. Found lots of illegal little problems going on, and put her out of business for good. What goes around, COMES around! ;p
Agree. I never visit my state's board. I bet a lot of
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Do a search on this board. It has been mentioned many times. nm.
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Does anybody have any info on the TTD, Inc on the job board multiple times?
 Cannot seem to find any info on them. TYIA!
Untrue. You posted a couple times on the Main board.
This looks like exactly the same thing you put there. What, you didn't insult enough people there? Come over to the company board to try to hurt more people who are worried about their incomes? Sick stuff. Get some help.
A search of the Main Board will show salaries discussed svl times over. Majority of us are paid
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I'm a bit perplexed too -- you think YOURS is a sm
positive post? You make sweeping generalizations about people you know nothing about. I have been an MT for over 30 years, and yes, I am blessed to have found my niche with a great company. But there ARE a lot of not-so-great companies out there, and without the networking here, how are people to know before they invest their time and sometimes money? Granted, sometimes the posts are just sour grapes, but when you see 10 people or so posting that they are fighting to get back pay or whatever from a company, it is hard to discredit it with a mere dismissal of that company didn't fit for them or such.
I am glad that you have a good company and positive people to network with. I am blessed too in that I joined an email support group several years ago, and we cry during the bad times each of us have as well as put on the party hats to celebrate the good times. Working at home, I think we all need that. It can feel rather isolating at times.
I think I have been working too much today, as I am losing my train of thought (provided I ever had one - ha). I guess I just wanted to say that criticizing how others handle their own situations is not necessarily being positive.
Hope you have a great weekend.
Perplexed ?
You are lucky you have a good stable company. I worked at a company from 1980 through 2005. Typing the same amount of pages per pay check for almost that whole time. Each year I got a raise until 1995 when if I wanted a raise I had to go on line count. So I stayed at the same pay rate from 1995 until 2005 when I was forced on line count and my salary went down. From 1991 until 2005 I worked at a local hospital per diem (16-20 hours a week) and typed a certain amount of pages per pay period and got annual raises and for years in a row my salary went up. I made decent money, enough for a single mom with 2 kids to live comfortably and affort insurance on my own. Then in 2004 the hospital got rid of my per diem position and offered me a full time job which I took and worked 40 hours a week and my paychecks were about $250 less per week. In 2006 myself and other MTs were let go. I left my at home job in 2006 because my salary decreased so much due to the line count instead of the page count.
Through the 15 years I worked at the hospital they had 3 outside services and then due to cutting costs hired MQ as their only outside service which left 3 other services (and a lot of MTs) out of a big account. I worked for the same company in their office and then at home for 26 years.
My point is: I am a truly educated and a very quick typing MT and still am. It is just impossible for me to make a decent salary right now. I have been with a company since 12/05 and last year my salary was about as low as it was in 1982 because I am being paid by line what the company tells me I am typing and that's what I get paid, plus I pay $600 a mont for insurance becaue I am a single mother with 2 kids.
Once I went to the hospital full time I didn't type like crazy to get my pages in because whether I typed 1 or 10 pages an hour I still got the same low hourly wage. I sat there and talked and joined in the parties and took my breaks and went to the gift shop and got coffee and did just about as much as everyone else did the whole 13 years I sat there typing like crazy because I was paid by the page not the hour.
I do not appreciate you lumping us into your category. Plus if you have only been a MT for 10 years what you think is a good salary is probably a lot less than I made 15 years ago.
I'm perplexed....
Although I have come from the MDI-FL side, and maybe that is the difference, I have not encountered cherry-picking or awful accounts, that I know of. I will say some days I have wondered why everyone in my queue doesn't speak English, not even as a second language, I'd be closer to 3rd or 4th LOL. I know I'd think to myself that I know for a fact that a lot of my account has American doctors so where are they when I see all the junk in my queue. I do them anyway, but I'd be really ticked if I knew for a fact that there was easier work out there and they were hand picking it for other MTs who should have never been hired in the first place and they couldn't handle ESL etc. If anyone wants to share their experience or the account everyone is talking about, please feel free to email me. Thanks.
Perplexed
 The key to any good line count is a superb glossary. That is how you make your money, no matter what the line rate is. If your line rate is 10 cpl but there is no work, are you really making a good rate? Just my 2 cents worth. I am very happy with this move I made, and the more I build up my glossary, the less time it takes to get the lines in. Sweat shop? Not really.
Perplexed and need some advice regarding current company...
I ran out of work last weekend on my main account and asked for a backup account. I was told Monday that later this week I would get cross trained on a new account. I have sent three to four emails with no response as to when we are training. An obscure email was sent out today to everyone about how all the accounts are low and not to worry about it and we could take the day off and work this weekend or such. I understand things are slow right now, but having absolutely no response to any of my emails is rather upsetting. I know I am not their greatest producer, but I do not appreciate being ignored. Any suggestions other than just sending a resignation email and see if I get a response? LOL. Thanks.
Did you ever get anything? I'm perplexed why some people got just cards, some got card and gift c
and some of us nothing. I can't imagine they forgot some people but it's starting to look that way. Oh well, at least we have work.
Could we visit further--I'd like to know more.
I have been hired but am still waiting for someone to contact me about training. Could you give me a heads up on some things that might be handy to know? Tomorrow is supposed to be my first day but no one has called about training yet, as I said.
One question I had was--do they renew the QLDB, Stedman's SpellCheck, and SEMD when new versions come out?
Thanks a bunch,
Cindy
cweb@netins.net
You need to visit------------
another website to see just how many MT jobs are being posted and see how many experienced MTs are needed. All of these services will not pay for the expensive technology that VR is demanding in price. The way your one-track mind is, you'd think ALL hospitals and clinics in the U.S. are going to be VR. HELLO--don't you realize there are still many who work off of Dictaphone machines?? Give me a break.
On my last visit to the ER - sm
I took one of my grandchildren to the ER last summer. After the diagnosis was made, etc., I was given a printed report that looked like it was transcribed, but it was not. The attending doc entered the info into a computer and that was it! It scared me - I thought to myself, Who needs a transcriptionist? The same at my regular physician's office. I tell him what is wrong and he sits there in front of me and types my complaints into a computer with a diagnoss and treatment plan and VOILA!
In a nutshell, I am very afraid that MT will become obsolete soon, and I don't know what many of us are going to do.
I'm too old and tired and over educated (master's degree in business) to get hired anywhere, especially not in this economy which will stick with us for awhile.
I visit the African Cam a lot SM
right now there are about 6 zebras at the water hole! I put a link in this post. Once here, you would click on the words Nkoro Stream in the top left side of screen. The live cam will pop up! It is so cool. They have night vision at night too.
Chickadee
Don't you have a panda to visit? Ha!!
Only kidding, seriously. I throw down the towel, I apologize. I really, really do. Anybody who loves pandas is a great person. I love pandas. I also love peaches. I am sorry I was horrible. I apologize.
I noticed on my last MD visit
that the nurse who took my vitals, weight and chief complaint for being there had one of those EMR gadgets and was struggling with it and talking about how much she hated it. She could not even spell nausea (she said this aloud) and had to use the end of her pencil to hit each letter keypad (as they were so small) to explain it. I wonder how many doctors delegate the task to their nurses and other office staff?
I once worked for special needs patients and would take them to the doctor sometimes and that doctor started using EMR for his practice. I watched him once through a window in a charting room with it, he looked very frustrated. It then made sense why the patient reports and encounters from his office had started coming to my office so sloppy, whereas they had not been before, with poor grammar, little punctuation, incorrect capitalization and often sentences that just did not make logical sense. The doctor was doing them on his new fancy-dancy EMR. It seems to me the answer about EMR really depends a lot on the quality of the report the doctor and/or health facility actually want.
When my son had to make a visit to the ER the
PA asked about my background because I was talking the talking. When I told her what I did she said that their work was done by MQ and it was horrible. I don't know where the work was done. I briefly QA'd offshore work and it was bad. I know that for a non-English speaking person, they are doing pretty good, but pretty good isn't good enough. I'm seen some pretty crappy work from U.S. MTs too.
A lot of times, if they need extra help, they will over 1-1/2 times our regular rate. sm
This is the equivalent of OT but you get it even if you have not done 40 hours already. I have also received AmerExp gift cards a few times for incentives offered. I think it depends on the account.
I do know for sure that they are working on an incentive program but I have no details and not even sure if they are still looking at it.
I do know for sure that I make more $$ with Keystrokes than I have ever made anywhere else.
Heartland/Presidential VIsit
Anyone interested can go to www.baynews9.com, click on the article about the presidential visit to Tampa today. Go to the comments and read my posted comment. Our president is allowing things like this to happen in this country and the average person is not aware of what goes on with offshoring of medical records. Everyone needs to find places like this to post so that ALL people, especially our senior citizens, vets, etc., can be fully aware of this disgusting trend. Americans need to take back America! PERIOD. END OF STORY.
sorry - i don't visit those boards. I was only referring
I have been to Alaska and loved to visit but
would not even consider living there. Saw cars with what looked like battery cables coming out from under the hood and asked why- you have to heat the motors up in some parts in order to have the oil flow through the engine or would be unable to drive. Tires freeze up on the roads. If a big moose gets hit on the roads, they hack it up and give the meat to folks on welfare, lots of that there and alcoholism. Heck, I was there in August and weather here was in the 90s. The day before I left had to get another outer garment, it was in the 30s, August! You have to be made of real sturdy material to live there. Lots hunt and kill their own food/clothing. I am used to running to Publix or Walmart if I need anything. The place is beautiful and would visit again, but only visit.
is the deductible for insurance still 2500 bucks w/ no copay for doc visit?
That is the sole reason I quit. That and the fact they switched me from account to account as soon as I started making a decent line rate with one.
They also have the ability to slow down how fast you can download files. They slipped and told me that it was to help control traffic on the server.
8 cents new pt, visit, lower rate for returning visits??
Now this is a new one.
MedQuisters, topics from the Company board are being moved to the MedQuist board. MQ posts on
the first page of the Company board will be removed to open up space for other companies to post. Enjoy the new Medquist board set up for you.
Thank you,
Administrator
Are you the same condescending person the word board? I thought this was called "Company Board.&#
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Didn't you post this on 03/04/06 on both the Company Board and the Hospital/Clinic MT Board?
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This was moved from main board to company board. Replies don't transfer. nm
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This is the Company Board. You should have posted on tech board. nm
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there is a board for local talk. this is company board. thx
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Posted on wrong board. Plz see Seekers board.
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Sorry! Wrong board. Reposted on Main board. NM
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There is a comedy board...put your remarks on that board. nm
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Then this is the "Unprofessional" MT board. Pulic board,
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Me too. I got cut off one too many times.
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I can't tell you how many times....
this has happened to me! It's as if they either don't listen, or don't want to hear that you are only able to take X amount of work each day. Don't you feel taken advantage of? The only solution I've found is to leave the MTSO and keep looking for someone who will respect your requests. It's tough to bounce around like that, but I don't think your existing MTSO will change. Good luck.
I think so, although at times the
communication can be not so great. I don't know how many MTs KS has, though they seem to be growing so fast that the number is subject to change weekly, but there is still a small feel to it. The owner is fairly forthcoming with information, at least from what I have seen thus far.
Here are the times - SM
If your last name starts with the letter A through F: 10 AM
If your last name starts with the letter G through O: 11:30 AM
If your last name starts with the letter P through Z: 2 PM
You have said that 3 times...
Who are you trying to convince? If the hourly QCs were worried about quality instead of their own prestige and how much money they make, things might have been different....
Not at the times it happens. Not at all....
Anyone who has done this for a while knows that there are slowdowns around major holidays, like T-giving, Christmas, 4th of July. At my other companies, I did not run out of work on May Day, Cinco DE Mayo, Columbus Day...you get the idea. They overhire. Period. They have a right to do so. The MTs you lose due to that practice are the high producers with stellar accuracy ratings, not those who shall have trouble finding other jobs.
How many times can you do that?
It takes at least 90 days to get benefits at a new company. It is not just an easy decision to move on. If you can't get that concept then just skip the messages by the MTs who have every legitimate right to complain about these companies.
Why don't you think before you post such flippant answers?
In times like these...
Ya'll, in times like these, I tell myself. Self, the ink has already dried on the paper, nothing can be changed. There is no use getting heart palpitations/angina over it. From past experiences, most everybody knows what is going to happen. Now, I tell myself, when the time comes, you have to consider all the pros and cons from all sides and then make a rational decision. I remember when MQ went through this and all the hair pulling-out and teeth gnashing (myself included) that went on. If you cannot accept what is written in concrete, you (I) need to make a decision and go for it. In the meantime, I will put my nose to the grindstone, tighten my proverbial budget belt, and work as hard as I can and try and save some money for a rainy day.
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Again and I have said it many times sm
before......it has only become like this since the schools have advertised MT as a work at home job! Also those who only got into this profession soley for the fact of working at home......I really feel bad for you.
The MT profession is an honorable profession to be in. It is about the patients and never should have been represented as it has been in the last 10 or so years. This has what has brought it to the level it has become.
Tried to start with them 3 times
I was offered a position with them, gave notice in-house, then they called me the day before I was supposed to start and said the had lost the account. A similar situation happened 2 other times.
Times change. It's not about YOU, it's about
what the reality is today, not four months ago.
Congratulations on your windfall, though.
If you have doubts, email or call the person who hired you and they'll verify this.
last year I was down quite a few times because of
evacuations. Just decided to move out of Florida instead.
DISHONEST TIMES 2!
I transcribed 1,195 lines and ichart reflected only 154.08 lines the next day! I documented line counts every day, and for one pay period it was 2500 lines off on their end! - disqualified from benefits too. NO answer from supervisor.
This has been discussed many times over the last
few weeks. Do a search of this site and you will find many posts. You can scroll down or go to the second page and probably even the third page at the bottom and find posts from people who work there. I know I am very happy. They are a very nice company with excellent benefits.
I have said many times for two years
That I am with Medware, they treat me fair and keep me in work. The line rate is higher that MQ where I spent 4 years, the insurance coverage at Medware is $17/week for United Healthcare, the incentive plan is attainable, we get direct deposit every other Friday. They treat you fairly. Sometime I wish I did not read this board, but I still believe there are those who are looking for a better company and ask for information. I happen to like working for Medware. Calling someone an idiot is rude, I guess one must consider the source. Time to go to work.
RE work times
Yes, that would probably work. My experience was that they would download work to you at night and it was available that evening and through the next day. Like I said, you kind of make your own schedule within the window of time they need it back. You may need more than one doctor though if you want 6 hours of work per day of steady work. I had 4 doctors, one that dictated 1 1/2 hours a day and one that dictated every other day but had 5 hours of work each time. It varies by who you have for doctors. You can make them aware that you would like that many hours and they can accomodate it I'm sure. Only one thing you need to know though is NO DIRECT DEPOSITS and they use snail mail unless you pay to have it expressed.
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