If it was the same one, it was because they increased work. Our op note accounts have been set for
Posted By: KS LEAD on 2007-07-26
In Reply to: I hope you are right, but - sm - Jill
I know because I am on the HIM Department management team, not just making general comments.
I talk to a lot of MTs who like Meditech, so I am going to disagree on that one but let's just agree to disagree. It is definitely a preference thing.
There are over 50 HIM accounts and more coming. HIM is catching up to Radiology fast at Keystrokes and it does not appear to have an end to the growth in sight. I am glad to be part of the excitement!
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They must have increased their
referral bonuses again. 
You don't take into account an increased
productivity. I know you don't know what it will be yet, but it will at least go up some from what it is now. Probably initially there will be a loss of income as you learn the platform, but as long as there is enough work there is the potential for you to increase your lines.
Don't forget that the increased prices from this will
You have to think hard before shooting yourself in the foot! Can you really afford the injury?!
Doctors know EXACTLY what is going on. So do government officials - we all do.
WE are part of the problem - wanting lower priced healthcare, low priced insurance but not want to care one hoot about our health -- making gluttons of ourselves, not exercising, smoking, diabetes, heart disease, all the other crap people do to themselves (not to mention things that cannot be avoided). We don't want to pay so they find ways to lower cost and make it more affordable to ALL of us.
It will hurt us more in the long run by raising costs of healthcare and insurance to the point no one can afford it except the wealthy. Don't start with the line that only the wealthy can afford insurance and care now. Bull. It's a matter of priority...perhaps people can do without the brand new car or the satellite dish or all the video games, etc., and spend a little on insurance protection, etc.
It's NOT just offshoring. It is ALL of us. Every single one of us contribute to this picture one way or another.
Well it sounds like no work happens a lot at DSG. How are the accounts as far as decent accounts
and their QA.
meant increased line lengths.
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They must be advertising increased referral bonuses again.
I quit my job when they increased our production rate...
by 10%, from 10 minutes of dictation equals one hour of work to 11 minutes of dictation equals one hour of work. Radiology went from 12 reports equals an hour of work to 16 reports equals an hour of work, a whopping 33% increase. The medical increase was not all that bad, I guess, but the senior Transcriptionist had a bad habit of assigning work to me by physician, what I would call programmed cherry-picking, and it goes without saying that the ones she assigned to me were the ones she wanted to avoid. Eight hours of work usually averaged about 1000 lines and I earned $14.69/hour or $30K annually. They had given us an 8% market increase based on prevailing local wages in July of 2006, because they wanted to be the preferred employer in the area, then in October of 2007 increased the production rate for medical by 10% and radiology by 33%. We went from being underpaid to underworked in the course of 15 months.
I started at 8 cpl, was increased to 9 cpl in 3 months and 9.5 in a year. nm
nm
not to me, same skill req. look at the paycut.& increased lines
Need to get out your calculator. Ask what is their production minimum and time to accomplish before being let go.
2000 lines a day, 250 lines an hour --listening/editing/fixing
at 4.5/ln
$90 a day
divide 8 hours is= $11.25hr.
10,000 lines a week=$450.
I have 4 accounts, doing all work types, and I usually have enough work but this is the slow time of
year so we are scrambling a little for lines. Easy platform, paychecks DD, always on time.
Encompass- How are the accounts and work flow? Do you have a lot of work?
I need to keep busy. I cant sit here every day hoping for work so I'm looking elsewhere.
Lots of work here too. I cannot figure out which accounts have no work.
I'm on the Escription platform
Maybe it's the accounts your on. I work for MDI-FL and I'm swamped with work..
Sorry.. I had gone through a few days a while back of slower work, but lately especially since over the holidays, it has been crazy.. too much work..
I left for no work. There is work on some accounts, but NO
work on other accounts.
Do you work on VR accounts? NM
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We have a lot of work, accounts out of TAT.
If anyone tells you different, it's just not true.
Yes. I was placed on 2 more accounts but still work is low.
nm
What are they like to work for as far as accounts etc. nm
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No work for them now on any of my accounts.
Its slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
I don't work for TT, but 7 accounts? Isn't that a bit
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I have THREE accounts and no work.
nm
There is a ton of work, some accounts have
more than others. I've been on OT pretty much every day the past 3 weeks. They've had several new accounts come on-line lately and I think they've had time to get the kinks worked out and see if they need to hire more and they do and are hiring.
They are very aware of the slow platform and are working on it, but working on it and giving us a time frame is 2 different things. I'm making about 2/3 of what I was at a previous company, as far as lines.
I absolutely hate the clocking in/out.
Benefits are good, but most of them you will never use - short/long-term disability, life insurance.
I think they have a good incentive program, but with the slow platform doubtful I'll get enough lines for anything over first tier if that. I do get shift differential because I work over 2 shifts.
I think they are a good company, there is good IT support and some STMs are great. I haven't had any issues with QA at all.
If they get the platform issues I'd be 99% satisfied.
My TT accounts have work
I work 2nd shift and have had plenty of work thus far. Had 1 slow night about 3 weeks ago.
Yes there is work. There are at least 2 accounts
that are on OT pretty much every day, but I asked to work on one of those accounts and was told that I could work on them as a secondary account.
I had 3 accounts. I still was only able to get about 15 hours in a week and that was trying to work 7 days a week and sitting in front of the computer for 12+ hours some days checking for work about every 5 minutes to see if I could get a report.
If you look on the backlog report you see an awful lot of 0 going down the page.
What?! I work rad accounts
I'm having a really hard time believing your post at all...but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and make the following suggestions:
1). Our supe is great - and she will work with you to help change your situation. Have you spoken to her about this? What was her response?
2). Are you only trained on 1 account? Supe has recently offered to train people on more accounts - have you taken her up on it? There are several accounts that have OT approved until further notice on the company backlogs page (they have been that way for a couple months now) - have you asked to train on them?
3). Are you willing to change your hours/days? I had a problem when I first started, but I was willing to change my days off and scheduled hours so that there would consistently be work for me. Its all about client needs and workflow.
4). You work a 12 hour window like the rest of us, right? So if you work 6am-6pm you have 12 hours a day to try to work; you could log out for an hour if you're out of work, go do something else, then come back in a while and try again. Do you only try to work the first 8 hours of that window?
5). On the few occasions I ran out of work when I was a newbie, the supe told me I could come in on my days off and make up the difference. Have you asked her about that?
I maybe can understand why you would have a problem THIS weekend - they offered us a bonus incentive of a $25 Walmart gift card for each OT hour worked (sounds like TAT issues and/or understaffing to me!!!). If a lot of people chose to take advantage of that during your shift, they might have taken most of your work, but when the work dried up, they would go away and the work would build back up. That happened to me a couple of times this weekend on my primary, but there was still plenty of work on my secondaries. BTW I work nights.
Feel free to email me privately regarding which accounts I work. Something is not right here, because I've been working all the OT I can handle, and I could at least tell you where and when that is. But really, talk to our Supe, she's not the kind of person to let you stay in this situation if she's made aware of it.
I never run out of work. Of course, I have at least 30 different accounts. nm
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I work on accounts that all have to be sent to QA
very, very, very slow. I have to work an incredible amount of hours to meet my full time obligation. Sorry I accepted the position.
Yes there is work, my accounts are in OT! nm
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Out of work again. 3 accounts. What's up? (sm)
I followed the thread about losing a big account yesterday, but this low work has been going on since the middle of May. The last I knew there were new big accounts coming on, don't know when, but can't be soon enough for me.
I am trying not to panic, but I had quit my PT job (I know - stupid) and this is my only income right now.
Have been doing MT for over 25 years and rolled with the ups and downs, but this is not a normal time of year for it to be this low for this long.
I love the company and hope to stick it out, so far I am able to flex around and get my lines in but I feel guilty knowing this is negatively impacting someone else.
I am thinking I better be looking for a part time gig to supplement. Good luck to us all.
Same here.. 4 accounts.. No work.
I too love MDI but love to eat and have a roof over my head too. Working 10+ hours a day now to get what I was able to get in 5-6. Am sitting at my computer like a little buzzard just grabbing whatever job comes along and they are few and far between.
No work on my accounts.
There are too many people on the account. For me, I feel it has become survival of the fittest,dog eat dog. I have to get work, before the other MTs get it. It is no way to work. I have been trying to work since 10 am, and so far have had 1 hour of work. I haven't had 40 hours since, actually I can't remember the last time I had 40 hours, before Christmas, I think. Completely on CMX side. I really don't even feel like I work for Webmedx.
They have taken on new accounts, but work is not plentiful, actually looking for a new job.
Not happy with the company.
Not here. You get your work types and accounts first.
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I work on escription accounts.
pay 4/9 for 60-90 days, can't remember which, then 4/10. Very nice to work for. I've been there since Octoberish.
None of our accounts have the work loaded into q's for anyone. sm
I don't mind hearing that someone is not a good fit with Keystrokes or does not like the account they have been given (they can't all be great). The addresses mean that you were on an ortho account. The ONLY reason someone does not like Keystrokes ortho is that the person in charge of ortho is very committed to both high quality and TAT. She keeps a QA score card on every MT under her, keeps a log of missed deadlines and lets people go if they cannot stay up to snuff. There is nothing wrong with that; I wish I could be more like her.
I think there are good companies and bad companies out there and have said many, many times that every company is not a good fit for every MT. If that were the case, there would be no job openings and no one looking for a job. However, the bad companies are the ones that do not pay, rip off the MTs in terms of false line counts, lose accounts all the time and allow cherry-picking. None of that applies to Keystrokes.
It sounds like you were not happy and I feel bad for you as KS is a great place to work!
not all accounts are pooled work...
nm
What work will be left? N-D getting new accounts?
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Are all of TransTech's accounts out of work?
NM
lots of work, on all 3 of my accounts, always will.
nm
if we have our own accounts we do not have a supervisor, we do all the work.
nm
I agree and I don't think I can run out of work, not with 4 accounts I don't! nmn
nm
Don't work for DeVenture but when our accounts are
low my company does not kick us out, but the facility does so there is enough work for their inhouse people. This is common.
I only work on 2 accounts...can't speak for the others.
And I work Enterprise accounts
So this whole thing is just really strange.
I run out of work everyday and I have 3 accounts.
I
I was told there are no more accounts I can work on
and am getting sporadic work. I LOVE this company too, and they pay for down time which is incredible, but the work comes trickling in so I cannot claim no work, but it is just enough to keep me going.
Just a note here!
A couple of things here...
First of all, I want to thank all who responded to my post about MQ and OSi slamming and stuff like that. It was interesting to say the least and very informative and I appreciate it. Although it is sad to see so much bashing and slamming going on here, and quite frankly, I have even seen some very mean posts. Moderator, thank you for not deleting that post! And please don't delete this one either! Thanks.
Secondly, I noticed a response from RadGuy in that thread that it's good to see another guy on the board! Yeah, it kinda is. You see, when I went to college to learn this particular trade, I had no idea it was predominantly a female profession, little did I know! And eventually, I came across a lady who was looking for someone with five years of experience to do a pathology account for her. I had NO experience back in 1990. But she took me on and trained me anyway, and now I LOVE pathology. Wouldn't trade it for the world.
Anyways, my point is, you have a RadGuy, now you got a PathGuy!!!!! yayyyy!!!!
And that is one of the reasons I kept coming to this board was to see if any companies would hire for at-home pathology work. Much to my dismay, no dice. I have been offered to test for a job to do veterinary pathology from home though!! Wow, never thought I would be doing pathology reports on patients named fluffy or spot...LOL!! But in any case, I would really love to learn radiology in the meantime, so RadGuy (or anyone else for that matter), if you have any information on how to go about that, I would be quite grateful. What I would like to know is where to get radiology tapes, sample dictation, etc. etc., it would be a great help.
Take care all.........
eternally in PATHOLOGY.......PathGuy!!
Just a note on this.. You do not have to be on IM
for them to see you are working. They can tell that from the server where your work downloads from.
As far as Timmy, I can take it or leave it. However, I can tell you that some of the MTs that get the extras because they were caught working probably don't mind it a bit. :)
be sure to note though
if you use the copy/paste function at the left of your text screen, it will also copy the previous patient's name and ADT into your new report, screwing everything up!!
just a note
Not sure what you mean by EMR (electronic medical record). If what you mean is you are wondering if some of the work is moving to voice recognition, then no, there is no VR at MDI and they have no interest in starting it.
A note
To Dawn: Since you have posted here and posted your name, I have a suggestion for you. Please proof your emails and IMs prior to sending them out. It looks bad when the person in charge of QA misspells and misuses words in emails and IMs sent to QA and MTs. There is a difference between -your- and -you're-. You should say -you're welcome- NOT -your welcome-. There are many others, but I will spare you as I'm sure you get the point.
I am also glad that the QA line rate was changed to .03 cpl as opposed to $1.35 per report which was a complete rip off. There would be discharge summaries greater than 10 minutes long and greater than 200 lines for which QA was only being paid $1.35 for a report that you may have spent 30 minutes on.
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