Now that's the biggest crock I have heard yet!
Posted By: sm on 2006-03-08
In Reply to: I agree 100%. You people have absolutely no idea - diddles
The only reason anyone works is for money. If they have money, they usually don't work. Nobody is doing this for charity or putting themselves last for a lousy recruting job? Please! LOL!
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What a crock.
Mr Nair clarified that the medical transcription work was moving from the US to India not because of any cost advantage but because of the growing shortage in the availability of medical transcription personnel in the US.
Oh that is the biggest bunch of **** I've ever heard. 
Well, I can't say it is or is not a crock but s/m
if these posters actually read the email (which I didn't bother to do after I got the one saying to ignore it,) then I seriously doubt they are disgruntled ex-employees. For myself, I'm taking a wait and see approach. I don't have insurance through TT so if that's all it's about, it shouldn't affect me personally. I also have a plan B (called retirement) so nothing really affects me. When I read these boards (not just about TT), my heart does go out to MTs who have to make a living. It isn't just the MT companies, it's ALL industries. My husband is a retired truck driver (Teamster) with over $3000 in retirement checks each month plus insurance. Even that isn't safe. The future retiring Teamsters have seen their retirement age raised to the point they will most likely be lucky if their eyesight is still good enough for them to drive a truck! Benefits for future retirees have been cut (less money, plus $1100 per month for insurance). So we sit here waiting to see how long it will be before they cut benefits for current retirees. THIS COUNTRY IS IN A MELL OF A HESS and we have our politicians to thank.
What a Crock
Michelle wrote that because she is a family member of the owner, so wouldn't say good things about a company! LOL
What a CROCK!
I was out of work for MONTHS. Working 6 days a week, 11, 12, 13, 14 hours a day trying to get a decent paycheck. And that VR crap, trying to convince us to take YET ANOTHER cut in pay to line their pockets. OK, yeah, add me to the lawsuit. Boy, for $294.50, you must feel great, TT, at filing this lawsuit against one of your workers for expressing their opinion. $294.50... I suspect that you have lost TEN, 100, 1000 TIMES THAT AMOUNT in goodwill in the MT world.
What nonsense. Develop a thicker skin and buck up. There is a reason people post on here their opinions about what is going on at TT: Because you tell us NOTHING!!!!!
Now, while we are at it, BITE ME!
What's a crock?
I simply stated my experience with TT. I have nothing to complain about, not even VR. I make the same money I was making before I started doing VR, although I prefer typing over editing. I have enough work. If you were out of work for months, had to work 6 days a week, 11-14 hours a day, you should have left and found another job. I would have.
This whole conversation is a crock
set up by disgruntled exemployees no doubt. TT does something good to lower insurance prices and you have to counteract that good move with this rumor. If you work for TT it says in the employee handbook NO RUMORS. Get that? Now the truth from where I see it: TT went to this company to get better insurance at a lower price, which is what you were wanting months ago when you started other rumors instead of waiting. This company is stricter when they act as umbrella for little companies in that they happen to do background checks. Big deal. You have something to hide? I don't care. I have worked for another company which did the exact same thing, and I had to fill out paperwork there. They did it for the same reason, because struggling medium sized companies need to get under an umbrella of many companies to get their employees good rates. So, go ahead, quit. More work for me. And go ahead, don't apply and listen to these rumors. If you would rather hear rumors on a board from strangers, rather than actually calling the company and asking them, then you need to think about your career. I am not an MTSO or management. I have been in the biz a long time. And the packets BTW were not finalized sent out in the mail yet, they were an e mail, and will be corrected ASAP. Maybe there were time constraints on the clerk at the new company so they could get you in quickly for the lower rate. Brother. This board is pathetic. It feeds on rumors rather than encouraging good practices like doublechecking details or using common sense. What a crock this whole conversation is IMHO.
8 cpl for standard and 3 cpl for VR - that's a crock!
There is little to no standard typing for which you can make 8 cpl. It is 90/10 in favor of VR. If you buy into the slick sales job the VR snake oil vendors put forth and can actually double your output per hour, you are making 6 cpl. What a joke!
Oh please, that's a crock. I have savings and husband, but I still
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What a crock that is and I question the legality of it. nm
BOS is a crock. Basic grammer/spelling all that is
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Yes, The Q is still the biggest, but
only cause of the million Indians now doing the work...
If the question is what is the biggest American-based MT company, absolutely not the Q.
She is the biggest wind bag of the
and suggest you all watch your backsides.
Me for one. I'm one of their biggest cheerleaders. (sm)
  I have worked for some doozies, let me tell ya.
Biggest doesn't mean best
When I worked at MQ I was just a number, at least at TT I feel like a valued employee.
They are still in business and one of the biggest 10 or 15. sm
I was hired at Keystrokes 2 years ago and have been happy since I made the change. It is hard to find a good transcription company, so I consider myself lucky, as I went through 8 companies in 3 years for various reasons prior to being hired at Keystrokes.
They are nice and personal and I make great money. They might seem smaller to others because they are not in the headlines like MQ or Spheris or others, but working for the other companies, I learned that other companies are afraid of Keystrokes because they do so well with their accounts. I decided that the same company name came up as a threat, in a good way, that I needed to be there and am glad I contacted them.
I think that the US only standpoint is a big part of their success. They know they need us, and we know they appreciate us. Win-win for everyone IMO.
One of my biggest complaints about this job is
dealing with these people and waiting for work to be assigned. They have taken as long as 30 minutes to get work assigned and they obviously can't read. I ask for 20 minutes of dictation and they give me 35. You know, 20 means 20; 22 or 25 maybe, but they take advantage every chance they get.
My biggest challenges (SM)
Even after 4 years of editing I still get frustrated when I see pure junk turned out by offshore MTs that I end up having to almost completely re-do. The frustration comes from knowing they'll still get paid, regardless of the quality of their work, as well as knowing your feedback often goes ignored so that the same mistakes are made repeatedly so, of course, you have to keep fixing the same things over and over again.
It's also very frustrating to know that as an editor, even though you've been given the responsibility of making sure the final product is acceptable to be returned to the client, you're paid very little for assuming that responsibility. It gets even worse if you have a boss who is pushing you to edit quickly, while still expecting you to be perfect. This scenario rears its ugly head if you're paid hourly rather than by the line.
The biggest thing is
to spell all numbers (Diabetes type 2, patient has 5 sisters), unless 2 in a row (we placed six 5-0 Vicryl sutures)
Hyphens are a big one (3-cm incision, 5-mm nodule, 2-mm laparoscope, right-sided, untrasound-guided).
Followup versus follow up: Take out the word up, if it makes sense... use 2 words, if it doesn't, use 1 word.
You have to get the BOS 2. There are several small things, but these are what I have seen on tests that you should know. There is even a BOS 3 but most use 2 so you are going to have to learn it.
Where else have you applied?
The biggest thing is
to spell all numbers (Diabetes type 2, patient has 5 sisters), unless 2 in a row (we placed six 5-0 Vicryl sutures)
Hyphens are a big one (3-cm incision, 5-mm nodule, 2-mm laparoscope, right-sided, untrasound-guided).
Followup versus follow up: Take out the word up, if it makes sense... use 2 words, if it doesn't, use 1 word.
You have to get the BOS 2. There are several small things, but these are what I have seen on tests that you should know. There is even a BOS 3 but most use 2 so you are going to have to learn it.
Where else have you applied?
The cut in pay is the biggest ripoff because VR is just
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Other way around. The Q is the biggest, eating up everyone else.
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The biggest insult is...
when the MTSOs hire new, or just not very good, MTs for your account that have absolutely no clue what they are doing and produce horrible quality reports. I wake up in the morning and go to work to see that almost all of the reports for my usual dictators have already been done, with all of them having been sent to QA with no less than 10 blanks in each report! I do not see how this is productive for anyone--not QA, not the dictators, and certainly not for me, the loyal MT who has taken the time to learn these docs and stay with this idiotic company for years. I could have done all of those reports (reports that used to be mine) with no blanks..GRRR...
Having multiple PT jobs may be an option for some, but there are those of out there that need benefits for our families. I would love to just stick it to the MTSOs and leave them high and dry with their new overhires that can't even do the job, but I don't have that option until I can find a new full-time gig with bennies...something that I have been looking for now for quite a while but haven't been able to find.
That's my biggest concern, too
The time clock - that's what I really want to know about. How flexible is flexible? Does that just mean you can pick how to split your shift but still have to be at your desk set hours? Maybe a current Transcender can answer that for us.
I understand that pay rate is case by case. A range would have been nice, but I suppose if they had said something like 7 to 9 cpl and you are offered 7 you may be mad since you know they pay others higher, so maybe they'll never tell us an exact scale.
I'm waiting to talk to HR before deciding on what to do. Pay is very important, but is still a secondary concern for me next to truly flexible schedule.
You know - that is the biggest thing I don't like about MDI --the E-mails!
For being an attorney, she certainly can not spell or form sentences correctly!!
Isn't the biggest difference in tax rate? NM
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That's probably the biggest question of all, and nobody knows the answer. nm
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You mean WebMdx in the middle there, don't ya? And biggest co. does not mean best,
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The biggest national MT company....nm
This is the biggest problem with Radiology!
If you are paid by line and having nothing but short reports then you get shorted on pay. If you get paid by report and having nothing but long reports then you get shorted on pay.
Are you being paid by report or by line? If by line then I really would not worry about report quota on a daily basis because it will all work at in the end. If however you are paid by report on this account then that of course is a totally different story.
I will only work a Radiology account that pays by report. I have found that for me I make the most money that way. I have been paid anywhere from $1.10-$1.50 a report. I am now an IC and make $1.50 a report with a wide variety of work.
Good luck.
Hey TTMax. I was one of the biggest supporters
of TT. Apparently the feeling was not mutual. Maybe you can get the ops now that I used to do. No sour grapes here... just did not work out. Wishing you well in your career there. See ya.
They are losing their biggest and one of few rad accounts. sm
My manager told me that it will be gone by the end of the month. It is in NH.
That will be the biggest problem with this whole deal and do you know what, MQ could care less. No
money out of their pocket if you sit with no work. They could care less. Which office do you work out of. PROBABLY AMHERST
I meant WebMedix. Sorry for the typo. Biggest does not
mean best, I agree!
Yes OSI Xpress biggest line ripoff ever
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yep, and biggest treads always reek MEOW
clowns. good for a laugh but scarry.
smoooooch.
That is the biggest bunch of horse puckey ever.
I DESPISE Escription, I hate it, hate it, hate it and hate VR no matter what the so-called better platform. It does NOT take me half the time to do a report. If I can type 250 lph I can edit 350 lph AT BEST. I DESPISE Escription and all that is associated with it. Oh and yes, I WOULD LOVE to go back to the old way. And there are plenty of MTs, we all know that--it's just that the work is going elsewhere to uncivilized third-world countries and the patients have no clue their records are being so jeopardized.
Biggest problem with MQ is they put too many people on the accounts and guess what. You either have
nothing or keep going into multiple accounts which presents its fair share of problems plus big time QA problems and quality problems and MQ wonders why they lose accounts. They STILL dont understand it is better for everyone including the client for the MTs to be familiar with the account. They just dont get it and I guess never will.
lol They are the 2 biggest MT companies in the world and growing every year.
lol
I've heard only positive things about them. So, I applied, but haven't heard a word. Maybe fl
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I've only heard of Intellitype. Never heard of Teletype.
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Keystrokes for radiology. They are the biggest for radiology out of all of the companies out there.
I have been there 2 years and have been very happy. I make a lot more money than when I worked for Edix/Spheris.
Two are hospitals, one is a clinic. The biggest one is a clinic that only does sm
oncology. We cannot post account names here and do not give out that information until confidentiality forms are signed.
I can tell you that a very, very large oncology hospital will be starting on March 1st that will need 30+ transcriptionists to run smooth.
I heard about it from my
supervisor. It is going to be adjusted according to what level you are, level 1, 2 or 3.
Me too. Never heard of them
They told me 6 to 6.5 cents per line. Yuck!
I heard.....
one of my doc's while dictating telling another she was leaving for Louisiana to help out. I'm sure it will pick up again soon.
What is this, never heard of it.
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I heard that from an MT there, too, and...
...since I personally know the person who did the QA on on the account she referred to, I asked her and she said "no!"
Interestingly, the MT who claimed they outsourced a particular account did not even work in the same group.
I don't know. Never heard of them.
:)
I have heard a lot about this
company not paying its MTs many, many times.
Never heard of them. - nm
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I heard about their QA and that
it is very difficult. I heard they will fire you without warning for a low QA score. That is just what I heard, not sure about it tho.
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