My last hospital did offer home-based employee positions. sm
Posted By: Long-time MQer on 2007-12-06
In Reply to: GUESS WHAT!!!! - NON-NATIONAL
They paid the employee positions by the hour with incentive and IC positions by the dictated minute.
It still was not as lucrative for me as my national position.
What works for one, however, may not work for others.
It is all about personal needs and opinions! Bully for you!!! :)
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Anyone offer PT employee positions, not IC? nm
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I work as a hospital employee at home
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I have a friend working in a hospital and she is looking for a company from home as an employee.
Would anyone care to recommend a good company?
At home positions
DTS America Brentwood TN has at home positions awesome management group there.
do they offer QA positions?
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All IC positions and they do offer
Hospital positions
The hospitals themselves have rules that they only hire from certain states. I have never really gotten a definite answer as to why, but I believe it has to do with the state tax withholding and they are only compatible with certain states. I work for one of these hospitals, but I could not work for the other one because of the state I live in.
It's too bad they put you through all of that without checking first. It should be one of the first things the recruiter checks for a hospital position I would think. There is more than one hospital, so make sure you don't qualify for any of the other ones.
New at home based...
I would like to get some feedback on a few companies. I have been offered positions from AccuScribe, Cymed. I am an IC now and have been in a hospital setting for several years, now at home working for a local company that does not pay well.
This newbie really needs some help!
Thanks in advance!
Carly
It is home-based. (nm)
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Home-based $14/hour
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Home-based MT is often a ripoff.
If you owned a factory and a supplier sent you defective or substandard raw materials what would you do? Send them back of course. You certainly wouldn't pay for them and use them to build your product.
In home-based MT this happens constantly and the MT is always forced to pay for the substandard raw materials (dictation) that the client sends. Not only with independent contractors but home-based employees usually have a quota and may have to work for nothing some days to meet it if they get a lot of crappy dictators. As an IC, my income may drop by up to 50% on a bad day of plodding through terrible dictators just to dig out common English words and phrases.
All these crappy dictators should be done by in-house MTs who are paid a fixed salary no matter how much they do. In that way the client that hired the crappy dictators without any language standards and that couldn't care less about their substandard raw materials would be the ones forced to compensate for their own bad behavior.
Home-based MT is often a ripoff.
If you owned a factory and a supplier sent you defective or substandard raw materials what would you do? Send them back of course. You certainly wouldn't pay for them and use them to build your product.
In home-based MT this happens constantly and the MT is always forced to pay for the substandard raw materials (dictation) that the client sends. Not only with independent contractors but home-based employees usually have a quota and may have to work for nothing some days to meet it if they get a lot of crappy dictators. As an IC, my income may drop by up to 50% on a bad day of plodding through terrible dictators just to dig out common English words and phrases.
All these crappy dictators should be done by in-house MTs who are paid a fixed salary no matter how much they do. In that way the client that hired the crappy dictators without any language standards and that couldn't care less about their substandard raw materials would be the ones forced to compensate for their own bad behavior.
Employee Positions
I am looking for a full-time employee position as I need benefits. It seems everything is IC. Does anyone know of companies that are hiring full-time employees? Thanks in advance!
are these IC or employee positions?
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This is home based with full benefit package. (nm)
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Oops! That s/b I prefer home based work.
All MTs, home-based or in-house, shoulda' staged a
WALKOUT years ago, before things ever got this bad.
One thing we should still do is all talk to labor organizers, because if ever a trade NEEDED a union BAD, it's this one.
And yeah, we could move on to other jobs. But don't think for a second that India/Pakistan/Philippines, etc. isn't ALREADY eyeing those jobs as the next ones to suck out of the U.S. ESPECIALLY any field that is dominated by women, because they know we don't have what it takes to get ourselves unionized, and to get our country to plug the ever-enlarging leak of American jobs and products to 'lowest-bidder' countries.
Look at what's happening everywhere in the world these days, and then be VERY embarrassed as you watch America repeatedly bend over and grab its ankles over and over again.
We're wimps, and the world knows it.
I doubt it, just based on what they offer as an hourly pay
scale. Any time a company offers an hourly position at $12-$15 per hour, and they offer other MTs 8-9 cpl for transcription, you know they do not feel you can do 200 lph, more like 120-150 lph.
Hospital at home now.
Please forgive me but I really need to vent. I think I am at my lowest now. I have worked in local Hospital Radiology dept. for 10 years and was told I must work at home, or no job. I must provide high speed internet and pay for it, I provide space in my home and desk and chair, must show proof that my homeowner's policy will cover their computer equipment, and must show picture of area in my home showing a door for HIPAA compliance, they say. I get 9 cents per line, only what I type, one line each for headers and footers. They won't tell me how they determine a line, they won't say if macros and normals are included. I went to personnel and they say my department head determines what and how she pays and they won't interfere. I have a one year old mortgage so can't say no, and my pay is down to 8-9 dollars an hour, and that is before I deduct what I have to pay to work at home. When I told my supervisor that the new program they put in is not Transcriptionist friendly, she said, no it's not, it is mainly designed for Voice Recognition. I can't check my lines, they give me a paper with total lines for the last two weeks on it with my paycheck. I feel abandoned and abused. I called local labor board and they said if I was getting minimum wage and overtime pay as required by law, then I should be thankful I have a job!
I am about to default on my mortgage, and have three kids to worry about too. Can it get any worse than this?
hospital vs at home
i would love to work at a hospital again. i've been working from home for not quite 2 years now, and the ONLY advantages for me are the hours that i work and being able to be close by in case of a family emergency. and of course, the price of gas.
other than that, i now understand why all the people i know who tried working from home went back to their in office jobs. the pay was so much better, you have contact with people who will answer your questions, most of the time you know your dictators, or at least have the same few, and if you have questions you can actually walk up to them or call them and ask them. at home jobs just leave you clueless and payless, basically. thats just my experience obviously. lots of folks love working from home.
Hospital versus At Home
The hospital I work for has finally said I could work at home. I am wondering if there are experienced people that can tell me the cons of working at home. I am looking forward to it but need to know if I need certain things and what kind of books to buy.
I work at home as IC for hospital...
Stay put. After 10 years of working at home for this hospital with no raise, I decided to venture out and try other MTSOs. Good thing I kept my hospital job. I usually do 200-250 lines an hour with the hospital but other MTSOs I was down to 120-150. Mostly it is the different dictators and I can't stand leaving blanks so I would listen over and over to try to get them. Then the styles of what this one wants and what that one wants also differs tremendously. Stay where you are and maybe talk to the hospital about possibly doing at least some days at home.
At-home hospital jobs
Does anyone know of any hospitals that let you work remotely as a full-time employee with benefits? Thanks!!
At-home hospital jobs
I have 12+ years of experience in most medical fields. I am in the Fort Collins area.
I work for a hospital at home also. sm
Fortunately, our hospital has the team approach. I am an IC for the hospital and my workload is the same as if I was an in-house employee. I see the entire work queue just as they do and we work first in-first out and abide by TAT. Not all facilities treat you like a second-rate citizen. There are wonderful people and well run hospitals out there to work for at home. You just need to seek them out.
then you get changed to a production-based position according to my offer letter
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I'm moving to Hawaii!!! Here in PA our hospital sent the MTs home but
they must do 100 minutes a shift. They also have to go to meetings once a month at the hospital which they do not get paid for, then have to go home and make up that time. Pay isn't that great either.
Is there really any way I can go wrong to accept at-home hospital job?SM
My national seems to be losing ground as we have had DD taken away effective August 1 and already had had our 401k discontinued about 2 years ago. I had said I would stay with the national until I actually did not have a job anymore. However, there is an at-home hospital job open fairly nearly to where I live. I'm making pretty good money with the national (although not nearly as much as about 3 years ago for various reasons), and so I'm wondering if it is pretty much always a good thing to go with a hospital job working at home if possible. I know they provide all equipment but I'm not sure abut the line rate. Minimum production is I think 1275 lines per day. Not sure about incentive (I know this will be a big factor here, as well as line rate) but all overtime is approved and has been for several years. I talked with the transcription manager earlier when the position first came open but we didn't talk specifics about pay. I also am pretty sure I could get a job with a national any time also - I have 29 years of experience and am a CMT. Any comments?
I went and got my own hospital account, at home, IC status. nm
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Diskriter - Anyone go from their employee to hospital employee with them?
Thinking about giving up on being their employee and applying for a hospital employee position through them, they have one in PA right now that looks good. How is it for scheduling? Do you keep your line rate or get whatever the hospital pays? Who manages those accounts, is it the same PM and DR that are on the other ones? I have DR and feel like she doesn't have a clue what she is doing and it is so annoying, but I just don't have the guts to let the company know she needs to step it up a notch because the transcriptionists are not happy under her. Are QA the same people or through the hospital. They have 1 QA that is constantly asking us questions on doctors and format, things we should be asking that QA person. Annoying that new people move up to QA but people who've been there 2 or 3 years get treated like dirt and jumped account to account.
Anybody work at home for a Louisville area hospital?
Would you mind saying who and what it is like?
THE absolute best job for me was at home hospital empolyee, production. sm
If they only knew the money they would be saving cutting out the MTSOs and hiring direct with, like you said, one or two in house to supervise.
I predict (okay, I'm praying, or meditating, or universing, or using the Secret for) the day to come through some major MTSO/OFFSHORE FUMBLE that will cause this evolution in our favor.
Oh, antie Em...health insurance again!
The hospital may pay a line rate to the VR company based on usage...nm
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I was paid by the hour to work from home for a large hospital. nm
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The only difference is we are at home and doc is hunted down by the hospital/client's staff
after we or our QA submit it with a blank.
It is a phone call away at times. This is not as anonymous as ADHI would like. Doctors these days need assistance by qualified MTs as it appears to me there are many with ADD. That is time consuming when dictating. And errors are deadly.
I'm an employee and can take home office deductions. You
have to have a $$ amount equal to a certain percentage of your income to be able to claim expenses if you are not an IC. I don't claim home office because it only made about a $50 difference in my report and I'd rather not claim it than worry about an audit since my office isn't 100% office use, my internet service isn't 100% work related, etc. HR Block does my taxes too.
Ahhhh! Okay...work as an employee at home with
very good work habits. I have a great schedule and very rarely interrupted. I use the expansions in Word and do have many. I've been doing this for 10 years and leave few blanks but I do think I spend too much time on referencing. Maybe I just don't type fast enough but my hands sure do seem to fly on my keyboard! I just thought that maybe there was a secret I did not know about how to format expansions or something on that line. Thanks so much for responding:)
Any companies out there that offer the hospital benefits besides Diskriter
I currently work in-house a hospital but they do not have at-work positions and I would like ot work at home so I wondered if there were other companies and/hospitals that hire at-home MTs with full benefits....besides Diskriter as I have not heard a lot of good news about them and it makes me nervous to apply.
You all have a point. I forget how this at-home thing works. I used to work in-house at a hospital.
and... we got paid extra for working holidays and even weekends and evenings. I am new to this at-home thing and it's pretty disappointing. I think I'm back to the hospital..
For me, being an employee has more to offer than being an IC...sm
I've been a full-time MT employee for 20 years now and I've always contemplated being an IC but every ad I've read lately for IC states certain days to work (Sun thru Thurs or Tues thru Sat) and/or certain hours so was never really able to find a completely IC job where I can be completely flexible.
Then, I looked at all the benes I would lose if I were to become an IC: 401K, STD, LTD, 3.5 weeks of PTO, life insurance for the entire family, overtime pay, technical downtime pay, training pay, bereavement pay, jury duty -- and of course the obvious medical and dental which thank goodness I don't need since my husband's medical and dental is better and cheaper.
The national I work for is pretty flexible. I have never had any problems switching my schedule or asking for a day off and I have to admit having a paid day off is wonderful because I remember the day when this national didn't even offer OT let alone PTO.
And also all of my equipment is supplied by the company free of charge: phone line, fax machine, C-phone, computer, monitor, speakers, headset, foot pedal, 24-hour tech support and if anything we're to break down, they ship me a new one in 24-48 hours while paying me technical downtime pay.
I just feel more secure being an employee versus an IC.
This is just my opinion, please don't bash me...I bruise easily:)))
they offer employee status only.
Unless they changed it
You are an IC with JLG. They do not offer employee status.
You tell them your desired hours but they do expect you to work when you tell them you will.
They only offer SE - statutory employee
Since they don't offer benefits, you're not classified as FT or PT.
What companies offer employee status?
I'm needing to get health insurance through work and wanted to know what companies offer this. I'd prefer a company that required 1000 lines or less per shift if that is possible. The line rate really isn't that important as my main concern would be a good family health plan.
Any leads are appreciated! Thanks.
Does MDI-MD offer employee status, benefits??? SM
I could not find any of this info on their website. I need to know before applying so I won't waste their time and mine. Thanks very much.
Hospital employee
even if you are hospital employee status, the rug can still get pulled from under you. There have been a few hospitals that have pulled out from Diskriter leaving the hospital employees without a job so beware. Now, Diskriter may offer to pick you up but you're better off leaving and getting another job. One MT I know was a hospital employee. She was the queen of OPs. This girl was amazing, consistently pumping out 2400 lines a day with 99-100% QA. Then, all of a sudden, the OPs started drying up on her. Where did they all go? Outsourcing was what she was told, meaning either to Diskriter here in the US or there in India. Her income dropped dramatically until she eventually quit. I would think twice about any offer even if it is hospital-based because Diskriter still controls the work flow and hospitals don't always renew contracts.
8.5-9 $/hr.? for employee of hospital??? cause if you do...
I've been blessed!
I am a hospital employee
Yes, the benefits are very good as a hospital employee, although they will vary with the different hospitals. As far as what states they can hire from, it depends on which hospital. There are different hospitals in different states, so the criteria is different for each.
My experience has been very good. Pay is average (8 cpl), but nice incentive, and am making decent $$. They pay for spaces, headers, footers. They pay downtime, which is a plus. Management seems a little disorganized and I have has three supervisors in last year, but it really didn't affect me in a negative way.
Employee for hospital....sm
I am employed by a community hospital and we have consistently been running out of work for a year. We are able to supplement it by going to work inhouse in Medical Records....but I have to pay day care to do that. I don't know what's going on...and it's not outsourcing...we actually nixed our contract with MQ 8 months ago and are STILL running out of work. I'm right there with you in the frustration department and have been looking myself. Just my 2 cents.
regarding hospital employee work - sm
again, as posted previously, it really depends on what state you live in. What state do you live in??? There are quite a few hospitals that although they do not advertise, they do hire transcriptionists from around the state.
As for Diskriter, and any company for that matter, please do not believe everything you read on this board. It reads like the National Enquirer for Transcription. For every good thing a poster might say about a company, there will be five people (or who knows, maybe it's the same poster over and over again), saying bad things.
Just because one company is not a good fit for a few transcriptionists, does not mean that every Transcriptionist should run. Sometimes these are really bad transcriptionists that were let go, or maybe they are great transcriptionists that were dealt a lousy deal by the transcription service.
Do their hospital employee MTs use the same platform?
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