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LOVE IT!!! Saving over $150/mo!

Posted By: TTer on 2008-04-21
In Reply to: Yes!! I don't like the new insurance, more expensive and higher co-pay. nm - DS

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TT New Benefits - Gloria Brown
- Were we not supposed - to ge a packet in the mail?
  - no mail packet here - oldengray
- Yes!! I don't like the new insurance, more expensive and higher co-pay. nm - DS
  - LOVE IT!!! Saving over $150/mo! - TTer
    - TTer - and other TT folks...... - awood_mt
      - TT questions - TTer2
        I wish people wouldn't be so encouraging. Then maybe we wouldn't constantly run - out of work. nm
        TTer2 - awood_mt
    - Having not had any in 12 yrs, I am thrilled by it all. Having the Blues is great sm - TT2theMAX
  - Higher? I don't understand ... it is lower - Happy TTer
    - Employee only insurance is higher..sm - DS
      - Once again the childless pay out the nose sm - so glad I didn't go there
        Family - Not being catered to
    - New Benefits - Gloria Brown
      - Same here. I'm only saving $11.54 a pay period - Newer TT'r
        Heck, I don't care what it costs. It's Blue Cross, sm - mlstoo

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saving $$$
Can you just imagine the amount of money the company makes by having us work at home? It is a huge amount, and yet paying less and less - sweatshops have made a return.

Saving face
She saw the boards, was furious, trying to gain some lost ground. If you notice the dates you know it was because of the boards. Hush money.

Same here. I'm only saving $11.54 a pay period
but they almost take it all away with the vision. After all the trouble to get insurance in the first place, now we had to do it all over again. I only got my cards from the old insurance at the end of March!

No way should you be saving reports
You are violating the patient's confidentiality and probably it is a violation of your contract with your former employer. Really that would not reflect your quality of work, for all they know the reports were copied. Only working with a current job's dictators and their system will let them know that for sure. Get rid of all those reports you have saved ASAP.

Saving reports
Is not only unethical and a severe lack of good judgment, it is a breach of the Federal Privacy Act, the HIPAA laws and is actionable in both federal and local courts. I hope that whoever is saving reports has good legal counsel on retainer. If you do not believe me, call your own attorney or ask the legal counsel for any hospital. He or she will be able to confirm this.

Saving reports

Blackswan, not to split hairs but if you have reports with no PHI, they can be saved.

I agree that I'd make sure I was covered, but the key is making sure there's no identifiable information included in the report (birthdate, name, address, phone, etc)

Seeing how you took the saving reports SM
subject, I'm not sure you'll think this is good advice either, but here goes. I hope you plan to present yourself better in your flyer and in person than you do in the posts you made here in this thread. The posts I saw give me the picture of a down-home momma MT, not a professional businesswoman.

I don't think saving reports is

Whipping out saved reports might just show a future employer a good reason NOT to hire you. Aside from the legality of it, IF you were to do this, how representative of your work would this be anyway? This could have been QA'd work, someone elses work, etc.? I'm not saying that's the case, but just look at the logistics from a recruitor or company standpoint who is considering your employment with them. I do think though that when you hold out your saved reports you're raising red flags for any potential employer. Good luck though.

They are saving a fortune on Docuscribe (sm)
Since switching most of us have taken a deep dip in wages. A little perk to keep morale up wouldn't hurt.

Saving records is okay IF required by your
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There is nothing wrong with saving reports

I thought people jumped right on ya' as well.

For example, there was one ad for a job that I remember a few months back asking the applicant to send a few reports that they've transcribed.

These people are all brainwashed.

Look at the post about the cell phone dictation??? There is nothing to say a physician cannot dictate on his cell phone in his/her car, on a plane, etc., as long as they're not using a bullhorn. Most MTSO web sites show physicians dictating on a cell phone or from anywhere;its part of the business.

Just chalk it up to the source of these posters' ignorance of this field and only working for nationals that have brainwashed them.

you could start saving these IM notes -
use them or not - protect yourself.

Thanks for saving me from posting that SAME sentiment!
I agree 100%! I love TT, I love my account (which is VR, by the way), and a greater group of folks I've never worked for. Talk about counterproductive to get on here and bash one of the most respected organizations around, a company with very generous wages who have no doubt put food on their tables and a roof over their heads but switch over to VR and the trash-talking begins in earnest!

So folks, if you're not happy with the switchover to VR and keeping up with the times and are going to proceed to try to trash TT to the nth degree...

I agree with above poster...

BUH-BYE!!! More work for ME and more money in my pocket.

You could be in legal trouble for saving reports.
First, that would be a HIPAA violation. Second, I am positive the entity you worked for did not allow you to keep copies of work for personal use.

Bad idea. Hopefully, any group you show that info to would be scared to work with you.

Please tell me you aren't saving actual reports...?
Please reassure me/us that you aren't saving the actual report with patient demographics, etc., and then showing them to others? That would be such a huge compromise of HIPAA and would bring to light a whole different set of reasons for possible future termination from an employer if it were found out.

I also had asked about Precyse. Thanks for being so honest and saving me from another headache.
I am so disgusted with the way this profession is going down the tubes. I've actually applied at our local hospital today. I dont think I can take another day of fighting for work just to have it sent over to India because our company just doesnt care or think enough of us to provide us with livable wages. I could count on all 10 fingers the jobs which have offered me 2-3 cpl for editing. Then the rare few that offered 4 cpl (which is also a joke) only to find out that they dont pay for spaces, headers or anything else. The only profession I know where we literally work for pennies. Come on..this is American. Why are we paid wages like we're a third world country. It'd be nice just to meet the bills, but between low wages and high costs of having insurance, which we have to have because our antidepressant medications are so flipping high. LOL.. who can survive doing this anymore. I'm outta here too. We all need to take a stand.

i don't know if saving your reports to show quality is a good idea
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Love, love, love TransTech! Not overhiring, just growing like crazy!
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This is all part of the cost-saving plan..first, send your American MTs work to India so we sit here
with nothing and then manipulate the way the lines are counted. Sounds like cost cutting at our expense to me.

I too love path & can't find it at home & would love to cross-train into rad in the meantime I do

Love this company, love my boss, very informative QA.nm.
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Does anyone think 41 is too old to go to nursing school. I love MT but I just would love to be a
nurse. I have such a interist in helping others and the medical world.

Love, love, love DeVenture
Super nice, flexible and just all around nice to work for.

Love, love, love Axolotl
I totally love Axolotl. Just as A-team said, fantastic benefits. Yes, strict schedule, but never ever had a problem getting off when I needed to. I wouldn't dream of going anywhere else.

I would love to know too, I love EXText
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Love Bayscribe and love the pay
At 11 cpl I love working for MDI Maryland. Bayscribe is a breeze. The lines build up so quickly. Everything is right there on the page. Sometimes, you have to fill in patient data, but who cares.... you do get paid for it. No holiday or vacation pay as it is an IC position. It beats 8 and 9 cpl any day. IMO

Love, love Archivus
Mind my asking what your line rate is? Do you have to work a schedule? Is their platform good? Anything else?

love/hate MT, mostly love it :)
i've long been dismayed with the direction in which this profession has gone, and i agree with the person who posted that women have accepted substandard wages and/or unfair IC or employment situations. It's very sad to see how, when outsourcing became the norm, women did not adequately negotiate to, you know, pay their bills!!! It seems this has resulted in lots of undercutting and lower line rates for everyone. I see some companies slowly improving and not requiring crazy line counts and hours in exchange for paying into health insurance. i entered this profession as a single female. i married an engineer and was living mighty comfy and cushy and happily doing 4 hours at 11 cpl in the late 90s. didn't have to worry about not having bennies at all. now as a single mom with a young child, i truly struggle. but i do love my work and hold out for my specialty to keep the line count up. still, i see the glaring problems and it's just a shame. if there were an MT union, i'd join in a heartbeat. no time/energy to start one and be some kind of norma rae, though!

Ah, yes, a love/hate thing indeed!

Best to all of you wonderful mts, male and female :)

Love it there

Okay, I have read all the posts and have been keeping up with all of this. I wasn't going to say anything, but some of the naysayers are getting a little nasty. I think that Transcend is a very good company. All of their pay rates and incentives, bonuses and benefits are public knowledge on the forum. It would make it very hard for preferrential treatment to go. However, I suppose it could happen. What I don't get is if it is happening to someone, why wouldn't they do something about it instead of putting up with it and complaining to the world about it while they do it?

Also, there are a ton of posts on here about Transcend from this thread that are not nice about the company and I haven't seen MT Stars pull one single post. I guess they aren't as biased as some would claim!

LOVE THEM!
I've been with them for almost 6 months, and they are the best! They truly treat their MTs with respect. I would highly recommend them!

love JLG
I have been an MT a long time and JLG so far has been the best company to work for. Work flow is constant, management is great, and so far, I have not run out of work. If I have my way, I will never go outside the house to work again. I cannot imaging having to drive into town everyday with the price of gas right now!!!!

LOVE MY JOB
I love my job. Best job I have had. People nice to work for, flexible schedule, no nit-picky QA stuff, like "comma in the wrong place". And great pay. RAH RAH RAH...I didn't even have to take any test. Sent them my resume, the called and hired me.

I love it!
"little control freaks with no experience other than raising a few kids" ROFL! Yeah, you have that description down pat. Honestly, with some of the ranting emails we get from team leaders or account supervisors, I'd hate to hear them dealing with their children when they think nobody else is around. OK, so one person on the team did something wrong, so let's scream at everyone!

I love OSi..but I wonder about this, too
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MDI-FL...what is it that you love?
I just got hired by this company and am looking forward to getting started. It sounds like a great company to call home and that's just what I'm hoping to do. I really need a fresh start after a bad experience with a few nationals. They seem to have a lot to offer. I would love some input from current employees on what to expect. Is the work volume pretty stable? Platform user-friendly? Easy to make line counts? Are most of the dictators pretty good? Do you they pay every 2 weeks or only on certain dates of the month? Is pay always on time? Have the changes over the years been for the better? Would you say this company is here to stay? Sorry for all the questions; I'm just hoping this is the last MT I'll work for. Any info you can provide on the boards or off the boards would be much appreciated!