I started there about a month ago. My two accts are good. Not sure on the switching nm
Posted By: lily on 2006-04-27
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I was told several new accts are coming on this month and also next month, so
I'm not worrying.
Guess we all can't be put on good accts. Gotta be there at the right time. Both of my accts.
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At least 5 new accts coming on this month sm
according to my manager.
Yes, I have 3 accts now, started the end of the spring.
They are willing to cross-train you if you are willing and good in order to keep you busy. You start with 1 account and after you are let off QA and type on that for a while you can get a secondary, etc. This has been my best job in years.
Depends on the accts you get put on. They hire people every month, tho'! nm
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I just started at MDI a month ago
and my supervisor suggested to me that I start out about 300-400 lpd and then gradually increase by 50 lines every other day. I guess it depends on your supervisor, but I would think they would allow this company-wide. In my short experience, MDI has been a wonderful company to work for.
You might want to make note that if you haven't gone Flex with MQ yet, you won't be able to do so until the 16th of the following month. It doesn't take effect immediately. The minimum for MQ Flex is 2000 lines per week, so over the course of 5 days that's only 400 lpd = 2 hours per day at the most with the Q. That shouldn't be too hard for you to manage while doing 700 lpd with MDI.
As for how long it takes to get lines in on Bayscribe versus DQS, I really don't notice since I don't punch a clock with MDI. I no longer worry about my lph or how many hours I'm working. I just work at it in little chunks throughout the day.
Good luck at MDI - I can't wait to get out of the Q, but like you, I want to hang onto it for a little while yet.
I just started with OSI a month ago.
So far they've been great. Everybody is really nice. Plenty of work. Decent account, some ESL's, but not any worse than normal. I have 20 years experience and was a CMT (until I decided it wasn't worth it). I would say give them a try. I don't know what you've read in the archieves, but when I was looking, they seemed to be one of the ones with fewer negative comments than some of the others. Good luck.
I started with them a month ago
The account I'm on is an acute care account and because I work at night I have more facilities feeding in to me than day time people, so that part gets a little tough. Plus, 90% of what I do are ESL docs.......that gets old.
QA is wonderful and helpful to work with, but they are VERY particular. The only thing I don't like about the platform is you can't go in and look at what they've change in your reports. You're completely dependent upon QA giving you feedback -which they are very good about doing, but I still like to see the reports and what has been changed or not. It's just what I'm used to..
It's a good company. The people are nice and very communicative. I am struggling with my accuracy percentage and getting my lines, but a lot of it is that I'm fairly new to this particular type of care and there are a lot of terms, drugs, and bacteria that I have to look up.
They started me at a decent line rate and I have had two checks so far and the lines that they paid me for were spot on with what I had kept track of.
I started a little over a month ago and
it's ok I guess. The only thing I don't like is the formatting rules. They train you one way and then you get emails telling you you're doing it wrong by others so that's a little confusing for me right now. The platform isn't that bad but it's nothing fancy either. I'm going to give it a full 90 days before I make a real decision if this is the company for me or not.
I just started within the last month or so with TT VR...
I had done VR for another company a few years ago, and I enjoy it as it is a nice break, so training for VR at TT was a breeze. I was up to speed within a day or so, but with the change to a majority of VR that I now get on my accts and low work or no work every day, I would say my pay has been cut in half approximately. I have 2 accts. There is just no work anymore. They say they are getting new accts, but not sure how that will help my accts have more work. I hope that helps.
Depends on what they have available. I started a month ago with a
:-)
Clarifying, I started the first day of the month
which made it worse as far as the wait on that first paycheck, but I think no one should have to wait as long as they make you wait. I believe it is one pay period. Is that right KS MT? I guess the later you start in the pay period, the less long it seems to be though it to me was still too long.
be very wary. I started a month ago with sm
a company that had an account for at least six months. All of a sudden it dwindled to nothing. I questioned nad questioned and they didn't know anything but were going to check into it. All of a sudden I get an e-mail, out of the blue that said effectively immedatiely we would no longer be doing this account.
It could be the move with your doctors, but just keep your eyes open. These docs still need their work done and why would they let it back up like that without making some arrangements?
It took nearly a month after I passed the test before I started with Diskriter! SM
I was referred by a friend. I spoke with the HR person, took the test, and was told I passed with flying colors. I was told that a job offer was merely a formality and that I should go ahead and give two weeks notice at my other job which I did. I then waited a week before I actually got an official job offer. Then I was sent the paperwork. It was unbelievable! I had to have a physical exam by my physician and have him fill out their questionaire. I had to find a drug testting facility on my own and do a drug test. I had to have a TB test AND they wanted a chest x-ray as part of my physical exam. Then there was the background check and reference check. You would have thought I was going to work for the CIA and required high security clearance or something. Then I was told there was a problem with my references. They had asked me for two professional and two personal references which I gave them. They called my personal references and asked them if I was a good Transcriptionist and a good employee. Diskriter told me that none of my references were valid because no one had actually worked with me. Then I had to clarify that they had called my personal references and if they would simply call the professional references, the would get the answers they were looking for! It took them three more days to get it straight.
Finally, I was so fed up, I told them I refused to get a chest x-ray and I thought all of this was insane for a simple at-home job. I was so upset because I had gone two weeks without earning any kind of paycheck while I waited for them to check how frequently I go to the bathroom! I felt like a show dog jumping through every single hoop for a job that ended up being not worth it at all.
I feel for ya and all I can say is they weren't a bad company to work for, I just had an incompetent supervisor with very poor communicating skills.
Good luck!
Call them. Something is not right. I was hired a month ago and started 2 weeks ago. sm
Call Laura or Becky in the office. They are both in tomorrow.
Just started it last month. It is nice and easy to learn
as long as you have experience with ExText or ExSpeech....All the things I thought were flukey with ExSpeech have now been corrected in EX Editor. You will enjoy it.
I have no good accts, all ESL. nm
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*good morning* !! Accts are not named here! NM
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You were given too many specialties/accts to make any good money.
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12 hour window on my accts - pay for acute good. (sm)
Work flow steady, weekend and shift differentials, OT offered at times.
I think things are different for some people depending on the TAT and specifics for their accounts.
Talk to a recruiter, they can give you much more info.
Are any MTs still with Precyse that complained of losing their good accts a few months ago? If so,
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How many accts did you experience in 3 days? Been there for a few months and so far so good. I find
but compared to where I was the lines sure do add up, and I absolutely love my acct, supervisor, tech people and QA! All have been great!!
I hated it there, they sent good accts to India (spheris global). nm
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Pay offered last year was 8 cpl/w on 1100 lpd. Some posters said they lost all their good accts
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Most people get lucky and get good accts. I was also one put on an acct that had me leaving para
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How are the MW accts that use the ExText? Good sound? Lots of work? Acute care or clinic? Thx. nm
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Yes, I started a new job..so far, so good. NM
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It is $400 a month, but they pay half. It is good insurance, too. sm
I recently had surgery and my only costs were my deductible. The hospital split that $1000 into 10 months for me, so it was not so bad, and now the rest of the year, I am past my deductible. It is a LOT better than the insurance I had with Spheris.
just started and so far so good, i will eventually
be a reviewed but I am typing while in training to become familiar with the accounts. I do recall the the pay per line rates were in the 7 to 9 cent range with incentives to make more, which I believe is about the norm these days. Also, while in training you get feedback on every report you type.
That's a good question - I just started doing it...
...and I swear, I'm only doing about 320 lines an hour - and I type 300 lines an hour, so I'm quite concerned! Especially since my line rate will only be around 4 cents a line! Did you all start this low when you began, and can you offer any tips for increasing production?
I cannot say enough good things about Keystroke, not just one month but years
I remember when they were having growing pains and I was with another company and saw them on this board. Lee even got on to defend her company. At least she cared and nothing but good things have happened to this company. She still cares. Recently complaints were of running out of work and needing secondaries, and high insurance. She contacted all MTs and has been working on and from what I understand is correcting all that. She is a hands on owner and appears to deeply care for the Transcriptionist even though she cannot see our faces.
All of my posting is from hands on experiences and if for 2 years I can say this is where I want to retire after all the other companies I have had to go through, I am only trying to help and not post pie in the sky hoopla to rope anyone in. This is a down to earth, straight shooting company that I am sure is in it for profit but deeply cares for the transcriptionists who work for her and not make that profit while we eat 69 cent pot pies because our pay checks are so crummy. it takes time even for a good transcriptionists to get familiar with a new account but if the dictation is fairly distributed (I mean first in, first out, unless other arrangements are made between you and the company) then there is hope and a chance to make a living. I don't think it is fair to complete with your team leaders for dictation because they will always win and you will be left with what they do not want as they have dictation goals too with some nationals along with supposedly helping you. That is my 2 cents.
Good for you and hope you get started on a new position soon
Great for you! I hope you don't miss much money waiting for the new job to start... but to validate you, here is a true conversation I had with my doctor... I was talking about my company going VR and my stress level (the meeting with doc was about improving stress for health reasons). I said that I knew no matter how fast I could type, with my personal need to have great QA, always wanting to send great reports, that I could not afford to go VR. I did not explain further. He totally understood. He told me that for a while he typed his own notes into his system. Then, he had a trial of VR and he had to edit the VR and it was a disaster!!! He said he could write/type faster than he could correct, and too many errors came up. He said among his colleagues the other docs, they really don't care of we do traditional or VR, they just want great work, and if VR does not provide it they, the docs, will go elsewhere (to another vendor) for their service. He said that he understood that we get paid half or less and that would be silly. He suggested to either hang in there with my VR job while finding a straight transcribing job and have no problem saying bye bye to my present VR job no matter how wonderful the company is! He said eventually if all MTs (even the ones in India, as he is from India himself) leave for lack of pay and ability to pay bills, and certainly when the docs get poor work and demand a better provider of transcription, the companies will soon switch back to the traditional way of typing, or pay us a lot more for correct the VR (it takes more time to do, he admits). Bottom line is, the docs will not put up with poor quality b/c they are responsible for patient care. So, he told me to hang in there. If I can't pay bills, go to straight transcription, go back to school and get funding, etc. He said he promises that it will come back to our skills and we will have to be paid for what our knowledge is worth as we always have. Finally doc said, Docs don't care how it is done, as long as it is done right. If it is not done right, they will demand it be done right and that is good for the MT. Sorry for the long post but this is a true story directly from the doctor, as he has first-hand experience. Thanks for reading such a long post, hope it helps, and good luck to you and all MTs who refuse to put up with this treatment!
I started 18 years ago and gave up a very good career
at a major medical association where I was just starting to move. I was 26, married three years and having my first child. I wanted desperately to stay home with him, but back then, my husband was not making quite enough to keep us afloat.
I just fell into MT when I saw an ad in the paper posted by a local MTSO. I thought, I've worked with doctors before and I know how to type. Well, I failed their test, but they were running an in-house class that cost $100 for six months, and the promise of a job as long as I could pass the test at the end. We had $123 in our savings account, and against my husband's wishes, I invested $100 of it in that course. It was well worth it!
Socially, it was hard at first to be isolated at home with children and work, but it's great now that they are all teenagers. I've always known where my kids were and been there for them when they needed me. I worked part-time for many, many years, and that gave me the chance to relax, not be stressed, go on hikes in the afternoons, or have a paddle in my kayak occasionally while the kids were in school.
I have a bachelors degree from Temple University and majored in marketing. My husband is a CPA, and we'll be married 22 years this January. He is now a partner in a small firm. He gets very good medical benefits and insurance, but no vision or dental plan. I'm sure that if I had worked for 20 years and attended to a career rather than a job, I'd be making six figures these days. I certainly don't make that doing medical transcription! But, I worked hard at raising my kids, and I have three great ones! I've saved bushels of money because I've not had to buy an office wardbrobe, pay train fare to the office, or send my children to daycare.
I have been very, very fortunate in that we no longer need my income to survive, but now I have the time to work full-time, the kids need me less, and I can still be reasonably flexible and unstressed. And, I'm still here when my teenagers need me, even though that's not as often as before. Yes, the industry has changed, but if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing!
I left a month ago, and couldn't be happier! They are the pits! Good luck. nm
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This is not true. I have been there a month and get a good line rate and paid for spaces. ??? nm
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I just started on eScription and it's pretty good. Higher than the last place I was
at. Starting base at 4 cpl, which is 1 cpl higher than I was making at TTS.
I just started with eTransPlus! Maybe that is a good thing....too busy typing to be here, sm
I will be working second shift, so I am here now. I tried to e-mail you, but for some reason would not go through. So far so good! Keeping my fingers crossed.
Good & bad posts in the past. Must work 1 Sat. a month. Supposed to be gross line pay. Some days
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I work 2 accts, always work available, pay as IC is good..
They offered me more than Transcend did, I work 2nd shift, work always availble, OT usually available. Staff is very responsive to questions, very helpful.
switching
You could work for Webmedx. They try to keep you doing the same accounts from day to day. I work there. I do the same accounts on a daily basis. Of course, you can ask for more accounts if you want.
Give them a try. Well worth the call.
They are switching over to SR SM
in a short period of time and I anticipate many people leaving because of the decrease in pay that will ensue.
Switching to VR
I worked for a local neurologist for over 13 years when one day he suddenly decided to go to voice recognition and have me come back into the office to help a very incompetent office manager run things. I informed him that I was a MT and not a billing or payroll clerk. I gave my 2 weeks' notice and went to work for a large MTSO.
A few months later I ran into another employee of his and they told me that VR was a total train wreck. He had programmers in the office on the average of once a week to change or enlarge voice plates, etc, etc. He had invested a large amount of money in this contraption and still had no success. In fact, he was losing money because instead of seeing the number of patients he could before when I did his transcription, he, himself, had become the MT, watching the computer screen to make sure it made no mistakes and if it could keep up with his speed. No one in the office had MT experience, so he was on his own. In fact, it got to the point that he actually consulted an attorney to see if he could have the patient sign a waiver indicating that they had given him a complete history, so he could just dictate the patient has agreed that the history he/she has given regarding the current problem is accurate and therefore, he did not have to take up the huge amount of time it took to dictate the actual history given, while editing his VR.
This brings me to the current use of VR and VR accounts. It is a popular speculation that VR will one day replace us all. However, if VR accounts still need MTs to edit and correct, how does that make it a wonderful technology? What would happen if MT companies nationwide, large and small, refused VR accounts. If a doctor or hospital wants to go to VR, then let them go it alone. Do you realize what a disaster that would be in perhaps less than a day? VR would be gone for good. I do not know of any doctors or hospitals that would want to sit and watch a screen to make sure the computer was not making errors. We are enabling VR to take over our jobs. I know it will never happen, because money is always the bottom line, but if we ever want to eliminate VR from our profession, that would be the only way to do it. Unfortunately, however, one day those of us who still wish to work in this profession (and who have not been lucky enough to retire by then, as I will have)will be working with VR accounts, making less money, and enabling a machine to take over what used to be a profession occupied by human beings who could do a much better job.
You're switching to DEP?
I was switched from DEP to DQS and my production drastically decreased. Made very good line count on DEP. What office is still using DEP?
switching from old programs
I posted this theory on the main board a couple of weeks ago. I read in the court papers for a lawsuit from a hospital that Medrite (specifically) had been inflating lines. It's an allegation, not proven, but if it's true, that means that transcriptionists on old programs such as Medrite are now experiencing a decrease in DQS because they were getting inflated lines before but no longer. I worked on MTs before and have noticed an increase in productivity on DQS. My MTS came out to a 65 cpl count, as does DQS (spaces included on both). Has anyone experienced a decrease in line count moving from MTS? So far I just hear people complaining who came from Medrite or cottage.
Switching accounts
I have been working at Webmedx for some time now and have not had any account switching going on. I have my primary account and a secondary account. I absolutely love it here!
thinking about switching too...sm
but do you have to work specific hours and days? I am used to downloading my work, m-f, and sending it back by ftp. do you have to work online through their platform? they sound great, but I am worried about having to work a weekend day. do you work until you meet your lines or set hours? just some questions. you can email me if you want to. thanks for your help. tough decision.
Switching accounts . . . . sm
When hired I was asked to please let them know if I wasn't happy with my account. I think they would rather place you on an account that you're happy with than lose you. It's just a win-win situation for everyone. I wouldn't hesitate to ask to be switched.
Switching Companies
In the last 5 years or so, every company I have worked for has done the bait and switch to one extreme or the other. Whether it was schedule, benefits, position, accounts, etc. They all did it. It is getting frustrating trying to find a decent company to work for.
my company is switching to DEP and I
want to know if anybody uses the DEP (document enterprise platform). Can you tell me how you like it. Currently we are using a Microsoft Word based program. Just looking for some feedback. Thanks in advance.
Do they still pay vision since switching
to TriNet? The rates went up pretty significantly on everything else.
Companies switching to VR...
I work for 3 companies currently and ALL of them have in the last 2 months announced that my accounts with them are going to VR. Two will be using MModal platform and the other eScription. Every one of them has quoted us a rate of 3 CPL!!!!!!  At first when the first company told us that line rate I was like, no way, that's ridiculous, but then when the other 2 also announced the very same line rate (with absolutely NO negotiation) I was extremely dishearted to say the least. From my research I was under the impression that 4-5 cpl was the going rate, but it appears that these companies are now down to offering only 3. 
For anyone working on the above 2 platforms, what are you currently making per line and are you able to at least make a decent wage? All 3 companies are touting well, you will be able to do 3-4 times as much work but the most I've heard tell of is 1.6 to 2x. Guess they're buying the crap sold to them from the VR software company.
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