Oh my gosh.. Do they realize they outsourced to someone who doesnt pay her employees, thus she cant
Posted By: Love Escription on 2007-05-14
In Reply to: They outsourced to TTS - Msla MT
them apparently. How sad is that? I know when I worked for our local regional medical center here they had MQ do their outsourcing but the worst was when the hospital did not renew MQ's contract but they failed to tell their employees. They knew months in advance the date their contract ended but still didnt bothering telling the employees who kept trying to dial into the hospital's system only to find out their passwords didnt work anymore. I thought that was kind of bad on their part. I have never had any contact with MQ and did not know about them up to that point but that sounds pretty low to me and about par for these online companies. I am about burned out on the whole thing. So, is it possible that your local hospital is not renewing their contract with TTS?
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I didn't realize MDI hired employees --
What type of benefits are you receiving, i.e insurance, PTO, 401K? Is there any flexibility in your shift? Are you being paid downtime or do you have to flex according to the work flow?
Sorry to be so nosy, but I didn't realize MDI hired employees.
Didn't realize it was catty to realize that from 1/18 to 1/25 is a week and nothing happened. sm
Thanks for being supportive and kind.
Has never done it--so doesnt know anything.nm
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outsourced :-)
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They outsourced to TTS
and kept 3 in-house girls, two of whom are for sure quitting and the third quitting when the other two leave.
My job also was outsourced
I worked at a local hospital for 17 years to find out practically overnight that my job is gone. I left before I trained my replacement. No way was I going to train a company just so I could be laid off. I was prouder than that; I resigned. The reports are horrible. The physicians are unhappy, and no they hardly ever meet their agreed TAT so I hear... All the glory they presented to the hospital, and none of that has come through to be true; reports are incorrect even after they've been supposedly QA'd... boo C-Bay - Boo!!!!!!! 
Nobody said they were. That doesnt make it right. I
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Doesnt matter. Not much from one MT but X many
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TTS-Why doesnt this come up in the archives?
Maybe it's my search engine but whenever I put in TTS, TTD or anything abbreviated, nothing comes up. Anyhow, does anyone have any information on this company, TTS?
Its really World War III here, War of the outsourced
Go get those scammers.
they ARE the outsourced company
They are India based.
OFFSHORE (not outsourced)
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Not currently with them but did QA and they outsourced 18 months ago.
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20 years then outsourced
I am glad that you have not suffered financially yet. Trust me, there will come a point where you will.
I have over 20 years experience as an MT. I worked inhouse for over 20 years before they decided to close the transcription department. In fact, they wanted me to help train my replacement. There will come a time when you will experience the same thing.
The only people who are benefitting are the CEOs, not the MTs.
If this the first time you have been outsourced
so to say? It has happened twice to me, both times happened around 11 years. The first time it happened I was shellshocked, made a really good salary at this particular hospital (they finally went under several years later)and after hiring on with another hospital after about another 11 years again the same. Second time was not as shocking. I am finally in a happy time in my life so if this present job went out, oh well, I would not really like but at least have gotten old enough now to retire and fall back on social security only.
I wasn't outsourced...
... but my local job shut down, and I had to go to work for one of the large nationals, who all seem to pay a going rate within a certain ballpark. Now, mind you, I had an extremely generous local employer... but I took at least a 65 percent pay cut when I went to work for a national.
As far as I know, my new employer doesn't offshore any work, but they do pay the prevailing wages, which have dropped like a lead balloon because of the off-shoring.
For what it's worth. Don't know if that helps.
Outsourced means
it goes from the hospital to one of the many MTSOs that you listed.
Offshored means it goes to India and everywhere else.
Just to clarify.
OMGosh, TRX who doesnt pay is advertising.
Be forewarned. They DO NOT pay.
Just hope your TL doesnt have initials MA.
she was NASTY to me when i aked that question.
Because other co. doesnt pay for time, that makes
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Yes, it came from hosp. And doesnt matter what
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Doesnt just reading along with dictation on an
My brain would look like an overdone fried egg if I do do VR for more than one day. At least when we do straight-typing MT, we're creating something - a medical document. VR is just robot-work, and adds to the concept that that's all we are, as well. Nonhuman, dispensible robots.
Doesnt matter if YOU see it as conflict or not.
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Its not the war of the outsourced - its about MT companies scamming MTs - nm
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My hospital used to, but then they outsourced. sigh. nm
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Outsourced by a hospital in the 2000s
and saw where you think they should take MTs back in. The hospital where I last worked had to pay it all, benefits, PTO, pay plus incentive so why would you think they would want that amount of money on them again? Now I do their work but outsourced to a company. They pay the company's rate, then I am paid by the company. They have cut out the middle man (benefits and the like) and I would see no reason why they would ever want MTs back in the office because they are coming out cheaper. AS far as your advancing the causes of MTers, I do not see by these posting where you do that, just the opposite myself. You retired and others asking about taking a job for less than YOU think they should when they are the ones trying to make a living now instead of say retirement money and/or SS.
Doesnt it seem like there arent many companies hiring right now. nm
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I bet Vandy doesnt know all their stuff is done overseas now.
wonder if they would pull out if they knew. i know for a fact spi is lying to them
Foreclosure doesnt pop up suddenly overnight.Why
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Too bad friend doesnt have gut to call their bluff
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You said it's not TT..but the name does start with a T doesnt it. This sounds way too familiar.
And personally, I have about had it. They want you to submit your schedule but you never get to work it due to lack of work on your accounts so you have to bounce around, log off, come back later, etc.. It's funny how there's no work during the week but come the weekend when no one wants to work, then you can find some work if you want to work every weekend ....no thanks
It doesnt make sense to just keep job hopping
The reality is changing jobs doesn't necessarily create a better situation. There are new insurance deductibles to be met, learning curve and lost wages due to that, and then once you get settled in, the company may go a completely different direction. These companies are rapidly making changes as technology advances. Just because a company is currently paying 70% for VR doesn't mean that is what they will be doing tomorrow. Changing jobs is often a pain in the rear. I'm not jumping around anymore. I'm tired of it. It is stressful, and I have come to realize when you change jobs, you are just shifting problems around. My last job, I could not tolerate the crazy QA audits that demoralized and were a constant source of stress, mandatory OT, and just being nitpicked to death over senseless stuff. At least at TT I am not stressed in that way. I'll give them some time to figure things out. I don't think paying people half for VR is the answer, at least not in the system I work on (I have heard it is better on the other platform they use). I think they will come to realize this. They may have newbies lining up at the door to do VR for half pay, but that will bite them in the butt if that happens because the quality will drop. I have many, many years experience. I should be paid for my brain and paid well if they want their reports to reflect any kind of quality. I think TT will find balance eventually ... at least I am hoping. For now I am staying put.
Are the Insight Radiology accounts outsourced
Lately NO work in there!
uhm......i was responding to what was in her post when said they outsourced to India.
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OSI lied when a company I worked for outsourced to OSI and .......
The gentleman representing OSi was present offering five of us a job with OSI. I point blank asked the gentleman if OSI outsourced their work, because I did not want to work for a company who outsourced overseas. His response was, No they did not; however, if they ever felt the need to do so because a client specifically requests them to do so, they would have to consider the client's request. I had just cut out an article not three days before that meeting where an OSI executive stated they were outsourcing accounts to overseas. I did not have it with me because at the time of the meeting, we did not know that the meeting was to tell all of us we were outsourced, no more job, see ya or I would have shoved the article in his face after his answer. Of course, I had no intentions of ever working for them, but just wanted to see what people like that say when directly asked. Oh well, if that is how they run their business, it will catch up with them eventually.....
To those who were outsourced from Western Montana Clinic.
They company is hiring for in house positions again. Maybe they shouldn't have ditched us all at the same time 
Pretty much all the local hospitals around here have outsourced.
Apparently it got to be too much for them to handle or they just wanted to save money.
Doesnt matter how good the platform is without work does it.
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That doesnt sound too slow to me.. I would probably be slower, I am tired and old too.
 Wish it were just my fingers though.
Cymed sucks since pewned & outsourced by Filipino's 100%
Thanks to a guy named Robert Lynch president and CEO of Cymed (who was greedy and sold all american transcriptionists to the Phillipine Long Distance Telephone company in early 06.)
Know the company you work for:
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), the country's largest telecom company, said Friday that its unit ePLDT, through SPI Technologies, Inc.
The acquisition makes SPI the third largest company in the outsourced medical transcription industry.
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (TEL)
Has the vague stock symbol of: TEL. (yes TEL.)
PLDT, through its information technology arm ePLDT, Inc., acquired SPI Technologies, Inc. for $135.34 million in cash.
ePLDT bought the world’s ninth lar-gest independent provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) together with SPI’s $7-million debt owed to former shareholder SPI Tech L.P.
ePLDT likewise advanced $16.43 million to SPI, which, in turn would be used to fully pay debts to DBS Bank Singapore.
CyMed employs more than 650 staff in the US through offices in Virginia, Tennessee and Ohio.
False advertising line: CyMed has a much deeper presence in the US and SPi is better entrenched in the Philippines and India. This merger creates a unique company with a well balanced and deep pool of talented staff in the three countries in which we operate.
When this be in actuality & basic explanation in India's MT news they know:
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) now owns thru SPI the company (or possibly even simply an abbreviation for them): 100 % percent of CyMed Inc. and all american Transcriptionist belong to the phillipines and can now be replaced by anybody this Phillipino company wishes.
A woman named Palmer, Edna has her pick and choose of MT's in america... and soon across the world.
The appalling thing be that MR #'s are the exact same as social security numbers could be used by those in another country and sold so easily.
About SPi: (two big letters S&P followed a small i) still no page able to find about the meaning of this abbreviation but the bottom line is that SPi = same as the arm _ePLDT_of Phil Long DIstance Telephone Company !
SPi is 100% owned by ePLDT, is a leading full-service BPO provider with offices and facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia. Together with ePLDT’s Ventus Group, the company has 11,000 employees delivering on a wide range of call center and knowledge-based outsourcing solutions to diversified markets, including financial services, healthcare, legal and publishing. SPi consistently improves operating efficiency, lowers costs and helps to strengthen the competitive position of more than 150 customers.
ePLDT, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone
Company (PLDT), the leading telecommunications provider in the Philippines. PLDT is listed
on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE:TEL) and its American Depository Shares are listed
on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:PHI).
History of PLDT:
You may not lose your job (lose right now buuut) you have now but you are contributing to:
A. Dedicated transcriptionist who went to school for the privilege of becoming so & spent a fortune (It does take so many $ in books to be a proper med understood, they don't give you any for free and must be not depend on internet all the time or ones not gonna be that bright) on the books to know all the proper terminolgy so they damn sure dont messup on somebodys preliminary surgery etc. report !
B. the quite easy & possible stealing of american's social security numbers
C. There's no job security with this company Cymed-Spi now & no end & no raises or nothing & no health coverage or anything like that.
D. Greed of a Phillipino company buying up all american telephony, & video games and internet everything.
Ownership of PLDT: First Pacific: 31%/ Nippon Telegraph and Telephone: 15% /Fidelity Investments: 5% /Other owners (includes public stock): 49% .
Ps. Why on earth is there no Med-Transcriptionist-American-Union? Who'd be done boycotted such outsourcing SOB's off thier asses ?
Peace, thank you all for reading.
 
oh my gosh, im so sorry.. please see msg
i was talking about northeast transcription.
assistmed pays 7 cpl without spaces, headings, or template headings already in the report.
sorry about that
my gosh!
All of us know that losing the jobs with Heartland is not solely AAMTs fault, however, Peter, who was past president and now executive director, is still going over to India to tell them they have to improve their quality. We all think that the money would be better spent educating the general public as to where their social security numbers are ending up, and also help the entry-level MTs get jobs. At this point, the AAMT is supporting off shore, and we are supposed to just get used to it as a fact of life. That's what they want but for me, it will not happen without quite a few emails going to the congress people, and also educating whomever I come in contact with that they need to ask their physician to NOT have their reports transcribed offshore. So far, my friends and neighbors are shocked that their information might be going offshore. You also have to give some wiggle room (which you did not) for those MTs who were just starting out and were hired by Heartland. For them, they wanted an opportunity, got it with Heartland, and then got laid off. From what I have heard, they are grateful for the experience they did get. Entry-level MTs have to take a job where they can get it, Indian or not, just for some experience. No one is blaming AAMT, but I for one will not support them any longer as the money I pay per year is most definitely going to be the thing to put me out of a job eventually. May as well keep it in my pocket and invest it yearly. I'd be better off, and so would everyone else. Mind you, I've been a member for 12 years. If I had saved that money and invested it, I'd be sitting pretty good right now. Instead, it is helping pay for AAMT to support offshoring. That's the beef.
Oh gosh - just tell her you don't know
Oh my gosh...
thanks, I really didn't even think about that.
WELL, GOSH, GEE, DUH
You're right. I feel so stupid. But, is that all there is to it? It's sad that now we not only have to worry about work going overseas, but we have to be on the lookout for work that goes over and bounces back, with additional cuts in pay in order to share the profits, thanks to the participation and cooperation of American companies acting as go-betweens.
oh gosh you ARE new
We'll be waitin to hear from you on the flip side in a couple months. Make sure you always use the same name - I love to compare those a couple bumpy months down the road.
Oh, my gosh
You should go back and check your sources...
Gosh, I wish I could get ops. I wonder how one gets them.
And I CAN do ops. I NEVER get them. Ticks me off.
Oh my gosh...
Seriously, my heart goes out to the 27 MTs that were terminated today and the rest who are possibly facing termination.
The entire country is in such a downward financial spiral right now that any of us could fall victim to a round of layoffs no matter by which MTSO we are employed.
I wish each and every one of you the best of luck in finding another home as quickly as humanly possible.
***HUGS TO MY FELLOW MTs***
You are fortunate. I hope you always have work and it stays that way and doesnt change.
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Not yet but our office is being transferred there I think with out accounts. Doesnt sound good. Why
did you transfer from Foxboro. I wont stay there if they take me off my accounts. How is the quality with putting people on all these accounts. It is my understanding all the NE offices will be working out of Amherst fairly soon. What a fiasco that sounds like it will be. How long do you think this will last until all the good MTs move on if that office contines to do that.
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