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ESL% depends on account.  I have no personal knowledge of many of the accounts, but there are several in CA.  My experience has been that CA accounts tend to have a lot of ESL.  Some accounts have 25% or so, but they are very challenging and have some horrible American docs to make up for that low percentage.   No specific pay range.  I asked for what I wanted and surprisingly got it.   1200 lpd/12,000 lines/ppd.  Split shift okay,  no 12 hour window and really not any leeway in schedule.  Minimal QA score 98.5%.  You get corrected reports back daily, get a QA report once a month.

Platform is Lotus Notes.  You basically are just typing in Word, little demographics to enter.  Use Stedman's Spellcheck, SpeedType expander.

Since MTs work at home and are all over the place, no contact with each other.  QA nice/fair most of the time.  There have been some posts in the recent past about supervisor and they can be found going through the archives - will not repeat here.

They provide all equipment, rental of $300, which they hold $50 a pay period.  Money refunded with return of computer.  Need high-speed internet as you are on-line while working.   Excellent benefits, very reasonable insurance.

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I worked for them recently (within a year). They had software changes earlier to that, so if you see negatives about technology problems, it was before that. Evidently they did have lots of problems back before they were on their current system. Still some occasional bugs.

IC only. Good accounts. Put you on one account, and you stay on that account. If you have a similar experience to mine, you won't run out of work on your account.

Software getting dated. Not written by/for MTs or with requests for MT input. Hence, you have the programmer(s) doing really strange Keystrokes that are not productivity-friendly. They fix one thing and break three others. Need to fire the programmers and invest a bit more in getting decent programmers.

Office staff--THE best, hands down. QA will leave you alone unless there's a problem. You don't get QA scores sent to you or nitpicking. You either have good quality or they'll be contacting you about it.

Hours--THE best, once again. You have a quota to get in every week, and you give them a weekend day. Other than that, you're free to get that time in when you can.
OTI is also the company in my experience that's come closest to actually treating ICs as ICs.

I have worked for many nationals, and OTI remains my best overall experience. I had to leave because of needing benefits. That's the only reason I left. I would recommend them to anybody who's got at least five years of acute care experience in the Basic 4.

SoftScript pays up to 10.5 cents a line with full benefits.

JLG, I believe, pays up to 9.5 with benefits (or at least they used to). 

Be sure and watch the job boards for hospitals hiring for at home workers.  Good pay and full benefits at a great price.  Don't settle without checking all options and best of luck to you.

This is my first time doing IC work.  I imagine it will eat up some of my profit, but I am just having my other job hold out a little more.

You only do as much as you want.  She will send an e-mail out to the P.R.N. pool of transcriptionists stating, I have 60 minutes of Dr. Mickey Mouse available.  His speciality is ENT.  It is due back by noon tomorrow (Pacific standard time).  Does anyone want all or part of this?  Then (based on whoever responds first) she will assign the work.  Let's say you want 30 minutes of it--you would e-mail her and state, May I have 30 minutes of Dr. Mickey Mouse's work?  If you're the first to ask, she will assign it to you. 

You don't have to take work...only e-mail her when you want it.  There is not that much work.  She e-mails maybe 1 to 3 times a day.  So the work volume is pretty minimal, but it is something to fill in slow periods with another job.

Hope this has been helpful.

Chickadee

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I read some of the MT Stars archives entries that gave the impression they were now an American company. 

After reading more, you may be right.  I think they may be foreign-based.  They acquired an American-based MT company several years ago and set up their corporate office in Nashville, TN but sounds like they are still pretty much an overseas company.  Kind of confusing.  Anyway, check out the web site for more info. 

First let me say I am not paid by the line, but by the report.  Secondly, my lead has been wonderful.  I keep in close communication with her.  I also let her know that if extra help is needed I am available.  I honestly feel like me keeping busy is related to the two accounts that I have as well as my lead.  I was adamant about getting a second account.

I am sorry that your best day this pay period has been 175 lines, but you really have to question the variables surrounding this.  Do you work on a large account, what about your scheduled times.  I know that with radiology, usually the doctors are very active first thing in the morning taking care of the films from the night before.  This is a good fit for me and I will continue to voice that.  Even if things were really bad, I would be ringing the phone off the hook with my lead and the office trying to get resolution.  Jumping ship is not always the answer as we change and find ourselves sinking. 

In the past I left one company that I had been with for 6 years and it took going through 3 other companies before I found one worthwhile, which was not KS.  I hope things work out for you and you can pick up more work because no one can survive on 175 lines per day.  Good luck!!!

MTStars provides the most extensive listing of job opportunities anywhere.  Our Job Seekers forum is free and the job advertisements are usually very descriptive.

We also offer a free resume bank for you to post your resume on. 

If you have questions about a specific company, please ask here on the Company board.

Please:  Do not post job-wanted posts.  Do not ask what are good companies. 

Otherwise, you will have to search for your position through the job ads and the application process like everyone else. 

If you have questions, feel free to email me.

Goldbird

Do a search in the Company Board forum (make sure that's what is selected) for Focus and/or Focus Infomatics.  That should give you plenty of resources.

Their pay is 8 cpl standard transcription and 4 cpl edited.

Amanda

First highlight the text that you would like to copy to Shorthand.  Once highlighted, hit cntrl and insert twice to copy the text.  ShortHand entry box will pop up, add keyword and hit okay.  You may have to do it twice for it to work.  The text will populate into the text to type box when successful.  I have added plenty of entries using this method and have had no problems.  Hope this helps.  By the way, I work for KS, so I know this method works with Meditech and Shorthand.

Put in your keyword and go to text to type box.  Click on tags, keystroke, then message comes up the next key typed will be the key assigned to the shortcut.  Hit your backspace button, click okay, save and this should take care of it.