Just to clarify. I am limited in the number of fields ....sm
Posted By: anna on 2005-12-28
In Reply to: I was an acute care MT for 12 years in house - before I even thought about
that I have experience in. There are areas of this profession that I know very little/nothing about. I do not pretend or present myself as having it all. However, I am well trained in the areas that include my clients.
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I am looking into changing fields..from MT
to coding but don't know if at 53 I'm getting too old to switch OR if coding will go the way of transcription as far as being computerized. I know MQ has new transcription/coding computerized equipment but I'm hoping and praying billing and/or coding will continue to be done by humans for a while. I just don't know that much about billing/coding now to know what the field looks like but I've contacted a couple local schools about classes.
90 is short, even in other fields. Some are one year.
My husband is an engineer and had to wait one year for benefits.
There a lot of companies in other fields that administer psychological sm
testing as part of their hiring process, as well as personality tests, physical exams, drug screening, credit checks, etc.
I would not want a nut case having my personal medical records in their hands. Who knows when they will blow?
ChartScript is very user friendly. The only fields in the
demographics section that I need is the dictating physician's identification number. It's a good program,with flaws like any other, but again, user friendly including very extensive, excellently written tutorial.
I agree to disagree with you. In many fields wages
have not really changed that much over the last 10 to 15 years, however, in my case, as well as many, MANY others, the wages in this field have changed drastically. They are still changing as evident on the job board most days. While I have been a MT for over 20 years, fifteen years ago I was making 15 cpl and today I am at 8 cpl. I feel like I have every right to be angry about this and had you taken a cut in pay as such you would be angry as well.
As far as VR, I have no experience with it and hope that I never do but I am not stupid enough to believe that it will not ever happen.
As far as our jobs being sent to India, if you cannot get pissed off as a MT about this and seriously have no fear that your job will be sent there, then at least as an American and a patient in the healthcare system, you should be pissed that patient's personal information is being sent to another country, as well as fellow Americans are losing their jobs. All, IMHO.
Pay suposed to be good per 5/06 post, but at that time you needed Emdat and had too many fields
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No, I am not limited. I can do it all.
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Transcritions Limited
If this is the way it's spelled, it is now Medquist. I started working for them when they had the old name.
Limited Info
I currently work for Precyse. I'm sorry that I cannot help with insurance because I do not puchase their health care, but do have disability through them and great dental.
Financially, no complaints here. Always meet my bonus, always have work (working nights) and checks are always accurate. Just got a raise---now there is a switch, never happened at any other national without pulling teeth. As always, I can only speak for myself.
I have absolutely no plan to go anywhere else. Been with the company 3+ years (they are only 6 years old).
Limited to 8 hours a day (sm)
 Does anyone know how strict these companies are that only allow you to work 8 hours a day? - Why do some companies allow you to work as much as you want? Don't get it.
Limited experience here
but when I was paid by the minute it was $1.50 per and that was several years ago for Radiology... it was very fair. There was only one doctor who dictated a mile a minute and was difficult to understand as well. You can gauge your earnings by asking about the dictators style, etc., and volume. Hope this helps - $1.50 may be on the high side ??
That was keep emails LIMITED.
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only limited comment
I applied to USAMedical. I have over 15 years of experience and they were only offering 7 cpl with that! Have no idea of whether or not they are a good company to work for though.
No matter what co., If you are limited SM
in the kind of work you can or will work on, you're going to run out. Simple as that. You have to be able to do all kinds of work, all kinds of dictators. If you don't value yourself enough to make yourself valuable to a company, then you will be running out of work no matter what company you work for.
Unfortunately, your days are probably limited..
That was my experience. At first, things were business as usual, but then all of a sudden we were told that we had new managers who would be calling to get acquainted. By acquainted they meant telling us how things were now going to be run. By this time, all of the easier dictations had disappeared anyway (like the others explained, we had trained in our replacements). So at this point, you can either accept their way of doing business or leave.
What really upsets me the most is that we as transcriptionists have let these 'businessmen' steal our profession from us. They got into this business because they saw there was a profilt to be made. We are just a 'unit' to them. Now that hospitals and clinics are forcing them to lower their line rates, they have to start charging 10 to 11 cents per line instead of 13 to 14 cents a line. Where do you think they're going to make cuts? That's right, with us.
We should really start undercutting these big companies (I could live very well on 8 cents a line for a while--long enough to stick it to the big sweatshop companies). Wouldn't that be sweet to run them out of business and take our profession back?
But I digress. In answer to your question, I don't know what they are going to do in your situation. With 350 employees, it probably will take a litlte longer for them to organize, but their goal is to offshore everything they can, so if I were you, I would start looking now. Good luck to you.
They said that the IC positions are limited
and they would need to know the reasons why we want IC. It sounds to me that the decision regarding IC status would be theirs, not ours.
Just so you know - the subject is a limited field. SM
If you hit Post Quick Reply, put a little bit of text in the subject, SM for see message, and then put the rest in the box below.
Just trying to be helpful!
Could you do all work types, or were you limited?nm
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are you limited on what type of reports to do?
That could make a difference. I never run out of work, but I do all work types.
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LLC = Limited Liability Corporation - nm
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A noncorporate business whose owners actively participate in the organization's management and are protected against personalliability for the organization's debts and obligations.
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Your experience may be more limited than the other posters
The other posters were on the money. If you have worked on at least half of the accounts, you would see that most of them are primarily ESL, there is one where native English is the exception and rare, 2 that ESL exclusive.
There have been occasions where work was lean for everyone and those not meeting line counts were sent certified letters to make their line counts or there would be consequences...how can you make line count if the work is not there and then be punished for not making line counts?
Search this site for some time in June or May and there is more about TH.
whatever did happen to Transcription Limited?
They had a cool platform. Super transcriptionh friendly unless they changed it. All you had to do was type.
Point taken, but for some options are limited
That's one of the reasons I hate how judgmental some posts are (not you, per se, but in general). Above is the post telling the non-working TT'ers to go get 2 or 3 jobs, whatever it takes to make ends meet. And that's what I'm doing. I live rural- the Walmart is 34 miles/45 minutes away. There are a couple of jobs in town (15 miles away). In addition, depending on the work, even at slave wages for transcription, I would still make more than the town jobs pay, not to mention the added expense for gas, work attire, etc.
So I understand your point and it's valid, but there is a divide between what some people say (with your knowledge of the wage of a Walmart greeter, perhaps you?) about working 2-3 jobs if necessary and holding out for the wage that MT is truly worth.
Frankly, there are some that would look at one's decision to work for Walmart as a bad moral choice, too, considering what they've done to local wages and small mom-n-pop enterprises.
I have limited op note experience...sm
and I fake it....I can do the work, just takes me a little more time looking things up, and i also HATE OP notes, but If i need a job all i see are acute care.....then I fake it...
I've been limited to 6 hours/day per ortho doc sm
orders due to traumatic arthritis of hands from typing--an example of how the ground can be pulled out from under an MT.
Loved your answer -- limited vocabulary
Never really thought about it, but you are right. They do have a limited vocabulary. That's probably why their reports sound so funny, because they don't know the correct term to use and just use the closet term they can remember.
Your post cracked me up. Thanks again gourdpainter!
It can be done for limited people. And they quit allowing
Yes, I'm sure, not for YOUR account.
I do believe $50,000 may be possible for many at MQ, but not for Spheris and if Spheris finds out they are paying more than a few MTs $50,000, they will no doubt lower rate of pay again.
This was a limited poll. Post your comments on
the Initiative web site, which I cannot post here because they keep deleting it, so ask around.
The more voices that are heard, the more input received, the more realistic the figures will be.
The person that posted that there are union MTs making $28 hourly with full benefits must have typed that during cocktail hour. It's not happening any where, especially not for at-home MTs who are paid by production and paid nothing when there is no work.
Acute care experience is limited...
BUT I want to apply for a position in acute care. I have experience in everything except for operative reports and I am wondering if I should lie and tell the company I have this experience just to secure the position. I know I can do it because I am resourceful, but is it worth it? Should I be upfront about my experience or just wing it? Is acute care really that much harder than clinic? I pretty much aced the acute care exam, but wondering if my lack of experience will hurt me in the end. Hm...
Thanks for any advice you may have!
Acute care experience is limited...
BUT I want to apply for a position in acute care. I have experience in everything except for operative reports and I am wondering if I should lie and tell the company I have this experience just to secure the position. I know I can do it because I am resourceful, but is it worth it? Should I be upfront about my experience or just wing it? Is acute care really that much harder than clinic? I pretty much aced the acute care exam, but wondering if my lack of experience will hurt me in the end. Hm...
Thanks for any advice you may have!
I am STILL finding VERY LIMITED information.... some URLs please?
Why so mysterious? Where are the URLs to these sites? I am not able to find much at all, except two people who did not like the Louisville branch.
Form an LLC (limited liability corporation) if you are an IC by filing legal paperwork SM
that way no one can sue your personal assets away, only those of your business entity, even if it is only your IC company in your name. This can be done through a lawyer or at companies such as legalzoom. this limits your liability and protects your personal assets. otherwise, they can take away all your assets, including your joint assets of your spouse.
In my limited jobseeking experience I'm finding I only get to learn line rate after I spend hours
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Actually .. let me clarify ... lol
They call it Statutory Employee and in describing it (in the contract) stated that "...because a statutory employee works as an independent contractor..." -- so that is where I was getting the IC. Sorry for the confusion on my part.
Can you clarify?
I don't understand what you mean by "in the office." The only people "in the office" are techies, some senior management types (but not even all of those), payroll in Pitts, etc.
I'm thinking through all of the "supervisors" (MT supervisors) and they all work from home. Sorry to hear that you've had a bad experience, but know that they DO have some really good transcription supervisors, and that it's totally an incorrect generalization that a 'bad one' will "be supervising you."
And, no, I don't work at Webmedx any more. Used to, knew all of the supes very well and worked with them daily. I saw how they dealt with their MTs. All had their strengths and weaknesses.
Try to not generalize in such a negative fashion, okay? If you have issues, speak directly with the supervisor, or at least say "I have worked with a couple, I didn't enjoy the experience, but I can't speak for every supervisor there." Post responsibly.
I can feel the flames already!
to clarify
I realized when I re-read my post, it might have come across as catty. Didn't mean for it to. I think we're all going to be forced to go with the program or be out of work. It's a shame, but with so many companies going with it, it's either enter a different field (and there are no guarantees anywhere these days) or live with it. I really don't think the politicians on either side are going to fix things anytime soon. Too much money involved.
Just to clarify again...
Employees are statutory, not IC.
Pay during training is for the lines that you complete during training; there is no hourly training pay or anything like that. You may start at a lower rate and then increase within a couple of months. You would have to talk to the recruiter about this. They kind of do everything on a case-by-case basis rather than have blanket policies as far as pay rates go.
I would clarify that as well...sm
I would be difficult for you to keep up with keystroke count if they are limiting what Keystrokes are. Where I work, everything is a keystroke, even the demographics we fill in, spaces, and headers, if we have to add them in. At the 0.001575 rate, you'd be making good money. It's always better to ask questions and clarify what's covered as a keystroke, what's not, and what the daily and pay period quotas are, so if you think it's realistic enough to achieve. Where I work is very fair with that. Once you understand the formula, figuring your paycheck out is easily done.
just to clarify
I have a hard time feeling sorry for someone who fraudulently receives unemployment benefits while working. Two wrongs don't make a right. I've had a real rough past few years here trying to recover from Medquist, but I'm proud to say I have been honest in all my dealings on my end. I work hard and if the company doesn't work, for whatever reason, I move on. Everyone should realize by now that THE ACCOUNT MEANS EVERYTHING. Not the company. Not the line rate. Not the communications. If you are on a crappy account, you won't make money. You can have a low line rate with a great account and make great money. You can have poor communications with a great account and it doesn't make a difference because everything on the account is crystal clear and you don't have to ask for clarification. You unhappy Keystrokers got the bad account. You happy ones have good accounts. Simple. Keystrokes probably should unload the bad account, but does any company ever actually do that? I don't know the answer to that.
could you clarify this a little more for me, please?
Now, my production put me making the same as full-time in each one but I was officially part-time in each company
Do you mean you were able to produce full time work in parttime hours at both jobs? I thing I'm going brain dead from job hunting and working. Forgive me if I am sounding dense here.
Let me clarify
My figure is based on the fact that Keystrokes does appear to hire MTs that can work independently and are very experienced. Also, compared this with others on the same platform. That could also factor in, so you have a good point as far as platform, differences, etc.
to clarify
They don't really give you holidays off. You can choose to take the holiday off but you have to use your PTO time to cover it.
Let me clarify, since you all don't get it..sm
FLEXIBLE is that I will LEARN and WORK on MANY accounts so that I have plenty of what I want to do! So many will have a primary account and only one secondary. I have TWO primaries and TWO secondaries, and I work all of them in any given week. They are all different with regard to formatting and rules.
Considering that this is FOUR sets of rules, not one or two...considering that this is HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of dictators...and every single specialty that has anything to do with surgery...yup that is bending over backwards because MOST of you would never try it, let alone be able to do it! It is also flexibility because I AM willing to work extra hard to learn my accounts and get it right even if I have not seen that account in a week. Because I can be asked to work on XYZ account at the drop of a hat and manage it, you bet they appreciate me and you can bet I appreciate the fact that this is a two-way street.
I know about a lot of you out there. I have worked other places and I am the MT who ends up cleaning up after you. I do the doctors you won't, I pitch in on my days off because you don't make your line counts or don't show up or didn't work your entire shift. This is NOT every MT but believe me I have seen it all.
I get tired of being accused of not working very hard, of selling myself short working for TT and I am rather offended that I am accused of not being a very good MT. I have been the punching bag for people who are not bright enough to understand my meaning and I am left wondering just how it is that such people call themselves MTs, let alone human beings. I have also been accused of lying because I am here and claim to make my line counts. What, are you jealous that between my 2 jobs I have racked 42,000 lines so far this month and it isn't over yet AND I was here?
Well ladies and I use that term loosely, I am GONE. You are a jealous, rude, nasty group of women and I don't care to be associated with you any longer.
and to clarify
there is a difference on these boards between OSi and OSI, 2 different companies
Pls clarify, OSI or OSi..
These are 2 different companies... OSi is one, OSi is another. OSI, who knows where they are... OSi is in PA....
Let me clarify
that I in no way mean to cast MDI in a poor light or deter anyone from considering working with MDI. I am still with them because I think they ARE such a great company, and intend to stay with them for a long time, and I think this work lull will pass soon. I really don't think the lull is MDI's fault, and I think they have been trying to juggle people so everyone can get some work. I am here because I think they are a great company to work for, I love my liaisons, love my schedule, etc. This lull has not been the norm in past years, not that I recall, so it has been a surprise to me. The fact remains that it has been very REAL on my accounts, and very frustrating, and my paychecks have taken the hit to prove it, at a bad time with the crappy economy and soaring gas prices. So it really irked me to have someone state that it was nonsense and imply that it never happened/isn't happening.
Can you clarify
I don't understand ... do I literally type what you have typed here? - then went to start-run-type in cmd- and when it comes up type ping *space* www.google.com ?
Thanks for further claification. :)
Oh please let me clarify,
I am not questioning their line count, only my own ability on most days to achieve it.
Please, let me clarify.
I totally agree with you, but it is getting harder and harder to find non-VR jobs. If MTs have to do VR, then the only option may be to become as proficient as possible just to survive. I recently found a job doing staight typing because found VR to be a losing proposition. Being paid considerably less to make a sometimes totally worthless VR program look good is not my idea of a good time.
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