I have talked to too many hospitals that do not care if the work is done offshore. sm
Posted By: SmallMTSO on 2007-10-28
In Reply to: Hosp's. would HAVE to pay more if we could stem - the hemorrhage of work offshore - sm
It is hard enough for the public to understand what we do, much less have them stand behind us in this.
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I too had done acute care for 1000+ bed hospitals
Spheris was the absolute lowest. Don't believe the BS that experience is taken into account. I came highly recommended yet I was awarded cpl that brand new MTs would receive. It should take you about 5 minutes to find something better than Spheris.
Please, save the sour grapes routine. In my new MT position, I spent all of 5 reports QA review and was turned loose and immediately went on to what they expect in terms of weekly line count. IMO, Spheris is not an MT-friendly company.
I've seen firsthand that many hospitals just don't care. nm
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No, just started 3 new acute care hospitals at Medware
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Do any acute care hospitals still have MTs working from home? sm
Back in the day (which was a Wednesday... in case you are curious)... I started out working for a huge acute care facility, then went home for them. Any of them still do that?? You can e-mail me if you want.... I'm sick of working for nationals.
So is the work load at MDI-FL picking up? I've talked to them before....sm
about coming to work for them when it does. They said they'd get in touch with me and so I really don't want to contact them back first. However, I'm probably going to move on if I don't hook up with them soon. I've seen here that their work load is down and perhaps they've overhired (?), but they'd be my first choice of where to go from here. So is their work picking up, especially the VR?
No work on four hospitals
I'd like to know how it happens that four hospitals can suddenly just stop dictating, and work suddenly just get slow, on all of them at the same time, and them not even in the same group. I think the company has hired too many transcriptionists and can't keep them busy, or is offshoring most everything, but telling us a different story. Is there any way to find out what's the real case? XXXXX It has happened several times like this over the past five years, and I am getting fed up. Are all companies like this or is this the only one where this sort of thing happens? People get sick and have operations every day of the year. They don't suddenly stop going to the hospital. Are they playing on our stupidity, or could this be legitimate? I find it very hard to believe. I'm a seasoned MT with 15 years' experience, and provide excellent work. What' up?
I think one of the hospitals is onto them about offshoring their work
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Hospitals that allow even PART of their work to be
offshored, know FULL WELL that they are taking the livelihood away from American workers. And the one in charge of signing on that dotted line would be MAD AS HE11 if someone did that to their job.
Yes, the work is VERY begrudginly kept in the USA. And they charge more for it than they do for India-work. But they're just biding their time, because they know that eventually, most likely sooner rather than later, American medical transcriptionists are going to be 100% PRICED OUT of their careers.
BITE ME, transcription industry!
It is not the hospitals on a short TAT it is what MQ wants to make the hospitals very happy with
them. I would assume the accounts are on 12, 24 or 48 TAT but wouldnt they love having their work back no sooner than it is dictated.
Could it be that so many work from home or in the basement of hospitals? sm
This is NOT generalizing because I know several MTs who are not psycho, but I have met so many absolute nut cases in this field that I question my own sanity after listening to them!
We had an MT at the hospital I used to work for that called security because she was certain that someone moved her chair and wanted a full investigation. She could not accept that perhaps the cleaning crew did this!
Weekend work has been going on in hospitals many years but
weekend workers generally rotate if they work in house or they used to. This should be the way these companies do this rather than tie up every weekend. It would be easier to find someone if they rotated their weekends and were firm about the commitment. It is not that hard. It is about good management and if they can't manage to get that commitment, then companies need new management to implement that kind of thing. Finding weekend workers would be a lot easier.
Does anyone work for any hospitals in the Pittsburgh area. nm
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Most hospitals will. Pay your dues (work cheaper to get experience.)
They are up for a HUGE account in Chicago. I work for one of the hospitals sm
and would be offered a position to work with them if it happens. I am very worried now. The last hospital I worked for went with Medquist and we all lost our jobs. They did offer us jobs but not on the hospital we worked for. I went to this other one and now this :(
The hospitals that I have worked at and the ones that friends of mine work for sm
all have a two week delay between the last day of the pay period and the payday. Same exact lenght - ends on the 30th, pays on the 15th.
I am not trying to argue, but I don't understand what you find wrong with this. The companies (all of them) need time to bill their clients and to process payroll. Some of the smaller ones probably have to wait to get paid too.
I work for KS and get paid on time every two weeks. The consistency is important to me as a single parent. I tried working for a small company but found that they had to wait to get paid and unfortunately, GMAC would not wait for me to wait to get paid. Going to a national like KS solved that problem and I can count on getting paid on the 1st and 15th of each month.
Most of the time it is for security reasons. We do work for 4 hospitals sm
and 3 of them want us to take someone off the account immediately when someone gives notice. This is their in-house policy as well with any staff member with access to medical or financial records.
Apparently, they undercut because they have MTs who work for free and the hospitals had to pay them.
I know people didnt intend on working there for free but it sounds like too many MTs didnt get paid.
Only if you work directly for their hospitals, not as a Diskriter employee. nm
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I saw postings that all our work was overflow/extra support for hospitals. (sm)
Whatever happened, it has been ongoing since around the Memorial Day holiday. I too am getting worried. Christmas coming up, winter utility bills, not to mention the every day expenses we have in order to survive.
I am picking up a PT position. May be a little tired working the 2, but for right now it covers my butt.
yeah - they haven't told a couple of hospitals that they are offshoring their work - but I think
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Ever thought of a home health care aide? Usually paid training and start work right away. Can work
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We band together and start our own company offering our services to the hospitals we've been work
on already and take our accounts back from Transcend. I haven't signed any noncompete contract with Transcend. Would the MDI one be null and void? If my pay rate is null and void, so must my noncompete. They can't have it both ways.
Must be a small company. I have never talked to the owner of the company I work for. sm
He wouldn't have time. Why would someone talk directly to the MTSO? Most do not know (or care) about the details just the big picture.
They offshore work
Some of their people are really nice but they send a lot of work offshore. They care about the all mighty dollar and not the people that work for them....
He would have fun with the work being sent offshore
If WE are going to be nick picked for commas, semi-colons, etc., then what in the world happens to those reports being sent offshore? They don't understand English let alone where to place a comma or not to cap a generic drug name. When then day comes for me to correct offshoring mistakes ---- I will kiss this job good-bye.
They offshore and u run out of work!!!
You will run out of work as it is with them and when they find offshore to cover the account, you will lose all your work!!!!!!!!! They are a lying bunch of theives!!!
It is well known they offshore their work.
They do not hide that, just wondered if it went to 100% now.
Companies that do not offshore work
Are there any companies that pay a good line rate and are good to there MTs that do not offshore there work? I am trying to help a friend looking for part time work, but she is staying clear of those that offshore..
Any help would be appreciated.
They offshore. That's where all the easy work goes.
All that's left for U.S. MTs is ESL and difficult dictations.
They still offshore. I work for a better company
and they don't offshore.
does not send work offshore
MedScript Services in Florida
the offshore work - BTDT -
Does OSI send work offshore?
If so I won't bother. TIA
THey offshore the good work. nm
It if offshore work. You'd be better off working
at Wal-Mart.
She's right TT does NOT send work offshore.
Never have and never will. The day they do is the day I quit because I never have worked for a company that offshored and I never will.
OSI does send offshore work
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Yes. I will not work for companies which offshore.
If we all did that, the companies would have no choice but to come back and give us our jobs back.
They claim it is only 15%, but it is more like 60% offshore work.
The offshore swine get preferential treatment over the US transcriptionists. The screen shows there is work to do and suddenly everything is gone but the bad dictators, and I do not mean 10 jobs, I am talking at least 45 jobs at one time off my accounts just disappeared. I thought about changing my name to hari skrishna for a while so I could get some work, but found another job instead.
Do they send work offshore?
Just wondering.
Boy, you got that one right, and they don't seem to care if you don't have any work.
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I never run out of work, so what do I care? (sm)
 Go away.
I work on VR and I care about
quality. I read reports on here all the time stating that only MTs who are slow want to work on VR or, like your statement, all you will have left to edit are MTs who don't care about quality. That is an assumption on your part and will say again, when you assume a lot of the time you are wrong. I do VR because my hospital outsourced us. I loved the work where I was but I had no choice. I wanted to stay on the same work and therefore sought out the company that had the hospital work, found it and am now working on what I love. Gosh, I wish people would stop just assuming things.
Not much. They offshore, too. You'll get all the crap work.
I thought Transcend did not offshore work.
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Work for a company that doesn't offshore
Quit Precyse. Work for someone who does not offshore. nm
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Wbx doesn't even send work offshore. nm
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Maybe we all don't need to work two jobs, or care to.
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Care to share where you work?
I've been looking for a hospital work from home for here in NJ and not having much luck. Is the hospital in your own state? TIA
I can do between 175-200 (acute care) when there is enough work.
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