I think they merged with Transcription Ltd and became MedQuist. nm
Posted By: Mt2long on 2008-07-11
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Me three. I think they merged with Northeast Transcription. nm
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MDI-MD has not merged.
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Does anyone know which MDI merged with
The MDI in Maryland or Florida?
Thanks.:)
MedQuist board is now set up. See Medquist link to the left.
MedQuist board is now set up. See Medquist link to the left.
Link is also below.
They merged as of 08/09/06. In a few months,
from what I understand Cymed will be called PSI. So far no changes at all for MTs. PSI Transcription is a Philippine-based company that was purchased by an American Company and is headquartered in Nashville, but on their web page, it says USA, Philippines & India. Yes, they outsource - but so does CyMed and, so far, CyMed has been a great place to work even with the outsourcing. Their line rate is about the same as everywhere else (around .08/line base) with no pay for spaces, but their software is so good that you can still make pretty good money. I'm happy there. Good luck to you!!
No, MDI-FL merged with Transcend. nm
They actually merged after I worked for them.
I am not sure in regards to insurance as I didn't need it. The recruiter will answer all of your questions. I was doing VR and some straight typing. Once you adapt to their program it is a nice set-up if you like VR. I would STRONGLY suggest contacting the recruiter. She is very, very nice and she will answer all of your questions up front and be very honest. I even asked account specific questions, and she was willing to give me the information. If she does not know, she'll find out and get back to you. If you truly want facts and not just opinions, contact the recruiter by e-mail. I found her to be very, very communicative. I am not allowed to divulge what I was making there as I signed a paper saying that I wouldn't. I think it is safe to tell you that if you have experience, they pay very well. They paid me what I thought was near the top of what is available in regards to pay from nationals. Just e-mail the recruiter, she's great!  You can also e-mail me if you'd like.... 
Formerly SecureMTSource merged with
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My company merged with MD-IT
a few months back. So far - so good. At this point, I don't have anything bad to say about them. Good tech support. Very helpful and good natured support. Personal opinion here - I think their platform could be tweaked for optimal time management but overall is not bad to use. Pay on time and when they say it will be there. No problems of any kind for approx. four months (time gets away from me and I think it is about four months).
Yeah. They merged with SM
MRC and MRC became part of the Big Q.
My bank did it when it merged with another and I did not find out
until I got their notice of changes two weeks after they began. It was my personal account and both my mortgage and car checks bounced because of it.
Look for the Transcend posts. They merged with
that company.
Apparently WebM has just merged with M-Tec
I've heard some good and some bad about WebM, but you would need to find our for yourself through the recruiter. I would stay away from companies who are not willing to answer questions before you test. It will save you time. There are plenty of companies out there.
The funny part is I did have a good experience with Transcend albeit they offshore I guess, but I loved the recruiter. I had to leave for personal reasons (death in the family) and when I went back a month later to try and get through the training process, I was told the schedule had changed. This would have been an employee position. I appreciated the honesty, but I could not work that schedule they offered. They were great though in my opinion and I have 19 years in the business.
When my company merged with a bigger one,
cpl pay stayed the same for a while, but eventually they readjusted the 'tiers' that their MTs worked on. No matter what 'tier' we were on, our pay was lowered approximately 15%. QA took a harder hit; some of them were cut 30%. They have plenty of work, but it's impossible to make a living doing it, unless you work 7-day weeks, 365 days a year.
So I would venture a guess that for the time being, things for you will stay as they are. They can't change everything at once, even if they wanted to. Physically impossible. But after the initial 'shake-out' of MTs who leave immediately, and those who stay for a while until they find other jobs, and those who stay to give the new company a chance, get disenchanted and leave later on, has finally occurred, and some of the other nuts and bolts of merging 2 companies are finally in position, eventually they will start to scrutinize MT pay. Those at the higher end of the pay scale will undoubtedly either find themselves re-tiered at a lower cpl rate, or else with horrendous accounts that cut the lines they're able to produce, and thus their pay.
Having just spent $16M to purchase MDI, you can bet they're going to want to start seeing some returns on their investment, and of course, the suits are going to want to see some extra cash for themselves for all the 'good work' they've been doing. [snort!] So when they start looking for places to cut their costs, guess whose pocket it's going to come out of?
The big companies are ALL this way. I believe the best chance for a decent-paying job is to find a small or medium-sized MTSO to work for. Only problem is, that's what I did a few years ago. A great company, decent pay, good accounts. And they were gobbled up by one of the current 'Axis-of-Evil' MT giants.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the future there are NO small MTSOs -- only 3 or 4 of the mega-large 'McMTSOs'. My company makes it no secret that they want absolute domination of the industry. I'm sure the other biggies have the same aspirations. Then it'll all boil down to cutthroat competition, price wars and back-stabbing, all the while flinging U.S. workers aside, and sending EVERYTHING offshore, because if hospitals no longer have a CHOICE whether they offshore or not, that paves the way for MT to become a 100% foreign affair.
I do believe, however, that if a company reaches a point where it has all or most of its workers offshore, they should no longer be allowed to have their offices on U.S. soil. They should be forced to move to India completely, corporate offices, CEOs, and all. It's about time the Suits developed a taste for curry, themselves.
When my company merged not too long ago,
in the beginning nothing changed. It would be impossible to suddenly change things overnight, and the dust needed to settle.
So we still worked as if we were with our old company. Same accounts, same software, same management, and paychecks had the same old company logo on them.
Eventually we all signed something - I don't even remember what it was, but nothing, obviously, that made any kind of an impression on me.
We eventually changed insurance companies - several times. Each time, the coverage shrinks, and the co-payments grow.
We had a few teleconferences in which the new owner spoke of the new company, and the changes we could expect in the future. (One was that we could expect to make more money on their new software. That didn't happen).
Bit by bit, changes were made in things like the software we used (many changes, as time went by). Changes in the website, a few changes in management at a time. They weren't all let go en masse, but one by one, our wonderful managers 'left the company'. Different QA people, finally a different logo on the checks, etc.
They changed from paying by the keystroke, to paying by the line. I was suspicious of that, but checked the new method against the old, and the pay was the same. Until, of course, they eventually 're-tiered' everyone, and cut everyone's pay - MTs, VR people, and QA.
We did get emails from the new company, but not that many, just when needed. I don't remembe4 how long we waited before we heard anything, but I don't think it was very long. Most of our information at first came through teleconferences, and through our immediate supervisors. I would say the supervisors are the ones who provide us with 90% of our information.
We lost an account or two, gained an account or two, so I didn't see any change in workload, other than one of the accounts lost had been mine, so I had to move on to something different. I don't like working for a company that offshores, but although my eyes are peeled for something different, I do have to keep working while I look.
Some people left immediately, others later on, and of course, new people have been hired. I do notice a slightly higher amount of ESLs and less-desirable work, as I'm sure the better work is going offshore. The software changes were like any software changes I've ever experienced in MT. They're all the same, really, just a few different buttons to push. Each has it's pros and cons. I personally liked the simplicity of the old software - you have to jump through more hoops to do simple things like add addresses for carbon copies. Eventually, things actually levelled out a bit, and I was starting to increase my lines on it, when we were hit with a substantial reduction in pay with the 're-tiering'. I haven't been able to overcome that obstacle to financial security, and so my search for either a 2nd job, or a new one altogether, has taken on a new urgency.
It's impossible to tell what new changes this place will throw at us in the future. It's been a quiet summer, but I suspect more changes will thrown at us before too long. I wish I could say I'm optimistic about the future, but these days that's pretty hard to do.
My best advice is to at the very least, have a 'Plan-B' in mind in case things at the new place don't go the way you need them to in order to survive. I would say don't panic or make any rash decisions about what to do next. Whenever I've done that in the past, I've regretted my hasty move. But be vigilant in keeping abreast of changes as they happen, research what you can, and check their website often for changes. Often the first news of change goes to the clients, not the MTs, who are always the last to know everything. And don't let your guard down, either. Big companies are always out for themselves, not the employee.
Is this an article somewhere? I thought MD-IT merged with SOAP in
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Proveros has merged with Superior Global...nm
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Superior Global merged with Proveros
Is this a good thing for the MTs? I've read mixed messages about both of them individually. Do you think together they will make a really good company?
Okay..I'll give ya that one. I came from the MDI side as it merged with Transcend so...
I was offered more than 4 cpl per line on editing and I'm not sure why if everyone else prior had been given 3 cpl. There is no way I would do editing for 3 cpl and trust me..coming from MDI into Transcend was not happy days for us. The biggest problem that I did have was when I found out our work was getting sent to India. Nothing is worse than being told we share work with our overseas partners and have too many days of no work. I have no doubt where it was going. So, never having come from the Transcend side, where you came from, I'm only going to relay my experience and apologize if that is what actually happened there. Yikes..I rely heavily on the MTs and supervisors who came from MDI because I know they watch our backs.
If it merged with Monrovia you are in luck. Monrovia is great. (sm)
I am an SE there for many years now. They want a schedule and you are supposed to be pretty solid with it in order to qualify for bonuses. If something major comes up (storms, computer problems, schedule conflict, etc.) I just call and they are great.
Medquist
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Medquist is getting really bad
Been there for a long time (years and years) - am looking for another job now. They don't care about their employees, only their accounts. The pay is horrible and you almost never get a raise. Management only cares about management - not us lowly peons.
MedQuist.
MedQuist.
MedQuist
I did not like MedQuist's platform at all. All of the info required to be filled in was ridiculous (wouldn't have been so bad if they paid for the keystrokes). Also, I was switched between 4 different accounts during the first week. I was told during the interview that I would have one main account and a backup account.
Another complaint I have is that whenever I called the office, my calls were not returned. I had to just keep calling until the manager was available. I just did not have a very good first impression of them. Luckily, my previous employer took me back.
I would recommend anyone switching companies to try the new company out before turning in your notice. Sometimes you don't know how good you have it until you almost lose it.
I think it's only fair to say, though, that if I would have had a stable account and had a chance to get used to the doctor names, local cities, clinics, etc., I may have had an entirely different impression of MedQuist. Don't put too much weight into one transcriptionist's impression of a company. They may have 'easy' accounts.
I also have noticed that sometimes, the less qualified you are, the easier work you get, the more money you make. 
MedQuist...
I work for the Ohio MedQuist and have had exactly ONE radiology account in the entire eight years I've been with 'em - I've never even HAD a secondary account. Needless to say I feel like these docs are old, old friends (and a few hated enemies) and the work is always there, easy docs, cutting edge technology and they leave me alone and don't bug me. Give 'em a try, I say.
MedQuist.
I work for MedQuist and make $25/hr. doing radiology - I've done exactly one account the entire 8 years I've been with MedQuist and have never run out of work. The doctors are great, they don't bother you and allow you to do your work and pay on time. Seems kewl to me. Radiology pays quite well there.
MedQuist.
Despite all the negative press and opinions, they are still probably the best - since they are the biggest they can afford to pay more, work always plentiful (at least in radiology) and they don't bug U to death (U don't have to clock out to go to the John). At least that's how it is at the Ohio Medquist - don't know about other branches but assume they are similar. There ARE perks to being with the biggest, I must say.
MedQuist
MedQuist uses DocQscribe!
Medquist pay
Anybody who works for Medquist, I am wondering what they pay?
MedQuist pay
0.850..I work at Midwest office..but we're supposed to be starting that scale pay thing in October which I know nothing about yet
MedQuist!
They want only the very best for their employees - we're like one big happy family!
The DQS is NOT with Medquist.
Thanks
MedQuist.
MedQuist. nm
MedQuist
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VR and Medquist
Yeah, and if MedQ has anything to say about it, we all will be in the soup kitchens pouring up our family the needful food they need to survive on while the homeless shelter people protect us from our bill collectors!!!!!!!!!
Medquist
Medquist should never be on a list of 10-top companies to work for!
MedQuist! nm
MedQuist
Any info on working for MQ now? How about its QA department?
Medquist sm
I love working for Medquist. I think they are probably one of the better companies, if not the best. I have worked for other companies part-time along with Medquist. The other companies just didn't measure up to Medquist, in my opinion. I thought about leaving after 01/01 because of the changes. I stuck it out and things have gotten a lot better.
Some people love it. Some people hate it. The best thing is to compare other companies and pick what is best for you.
MedQuist
Full medical, dental, vision, life; options of long/short-term disability, supplemental life insurance; 401K; FSA; holiday pay (1.5 x base rate if you work it); ability to advance to higher tiers (higher base pay); daily incentive; shift differentials for evening/night work; difficulty factor pay; discount program to purchase references -- payroll deducted in $25 increments; PTO (up to 20 days off); equipment provided free; 24/7 help desk;...I could go on! Hahaha
Medquist
I'd personally stay away from Medquist as yes, for me, I run out of work on a consistent basis it seems now. Can't complain about ESL docs, not too many.
MedQuist
Thank you!
Medquist (nm)
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Is "Q" Medquist?
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Medquist. nm
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Medquist
Worked both last year
medquist
Does anyone know the time line for hiring? I am scheduled for a phone interview and just wondered what the next step would be? Any info on Medquist as far as good or bad to work for?? Thanks
MedQuist
All I can say is watch your step. I work for Medquist and I can tell you they are leaving in huge masses. If you want no communication with anyone, no communication with QA and no communication with your managers then the Q is for you. You cannot get any kind of line count because you have no primary or secondary accounts anymore it is just one giant pool of whatever comes down the pike. You spend so much time reading the standards for that account, trying to find doctors in that area, trying to find places that they dictate and then try to understand the doctor you can kiss your production good bye. If you make more than 2 major errors on your reports then your bonus is bye bye too. Your bonus is almost impossible now because it is quarterly and you have to have perfect QA and you are constantly on a different account. There is no way you can make any money at all. They set this up this way and a lot of people like me are in tears as to why? I would really, really think before I went to MedQuist. If you being broke, being alone with no help and no communication, lots of change of accounts no two docs the same no two facilities the same and having to meet a production that is impossible to meet now then go for it. I am sure there are a lot of jobs now. A lot of folks have jumped ship. I am still on it and hoping it changes but in the mean time I am going broke. I will get called on the carpet soon because I have not met my production. I just hope you like this sinking boat and I will make room for you. We can go down together.
Medquist
I am in Oregon and am isolated from other MTs. I would like to leave MQ -- anything they can do to decrease our salaries they will do. But I don't know where to start. Are, in fact, alot of people leaving MQ?
Medquist
Good, bad or ugly to work for?
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