That's a shame about the increase
Posted By: because there were quite a few here on 2008-01-21
In Reply to: I kinda agree. I enjoy working at TT, but this kind of "overkill" is why people sm - LTMT
excited to be getting to work for that company. Keystrokes has a high plan too and are looking into it, but I've read that on here for over a year now. I guess I have nothing nice to say, so I'd better be quiet. Sometimes saying too many good things can jinx us! 
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Shame, SHAME on you people
for putting the MDI/Transcend people down!!! When the offshoring, mergers, sales, etc. knocks on YOUR door, as it surely will in time, will you still be so self-centered? I am glad the moderator is allowing them time to discuss their plight and I am reading every post and thinking what I can do to help. I am only one little person but I'm speaking loudly about the MT industry to anyone and everyone who might be able to help. I spoke this morning with a person who knows an MT who works for one of the local hospitals that has their MTs working from home. This person told me they are ultraflexible and the MT she knows takes time off to go for a massage. I left my number with our mutual friend and asked her to have her call me, I would like to find out how they have made this work. Sure sounds like going for a massage beats sitting around waiting for work from some MTSO and imagine the flexibility allowing her to do that! I also spoke with an MT who has worked for one of the BIG MTSOs for over a dozen years. She is not willing to trust another MTSO so she went part-time with the BIG one and took a full-time job waitressing where she says she makes much more money. She is so far behind she is in fear of having to file for bankruptcy! Now THAT is pathetic. If she can't make a living in MT anymore it is doubtful anyone can under the current working conditions. I know nothing about MDI or Transcend but those aren't the only MTs who are suffering for lack of work and it seems more are in the boat every day.
Please have patience with these, your brothers and sisters. You may think this can never happen to you but I assure you it CAN and more than likely WILL sooner or later.
So if you have a question you'd like to ask, fire away, I'll answer if I know the answer.
Shame, Shame, Spheris
I just noticed on Spheris's new CS platform on one of my backup accounts (one that happens to also be offshored to India), that not only is a patient's SSN available, birth date, but also the home address and personal phone number. I've never understood why a SSN has always been available, since it is never used to identify a patient, but now all the other personal info is available on this particular account; however, is not available on my primary account (which interestingly is not offshored). I am absolutely appalled that Spheris has made available all this private information, and none of it is required to identify a patient in order to transcribe a report, as the patient is only identified by name and/or account numbers. It scares me that a patient's complete identity is available to any disreputable person with access and willing to profit from this info.
A pay increase.
:D
Ins. Increase
OK, you can panic or you can check into other things. Go ahead and call other companies and see what their insurance is costing the employee and the benefits it offers. This is going on in ALL insurance companies. Everyone and I do mean everyone I have talked to in the past 2 days about this has told me theirs has gone up, too. One of my friends who works for a very well known company pays over $108.00 a pay period for single coverage and basically the same benefits as my Aetna plan with TransTech. This is not some remote thing. Even my husband's insurance went up for all the plan options. He is now going to be paying $8.17 more a pay period than I am with Transtech for single employee only coverage. The cost of health care and medications are astronomical and they are having to pass this on down to the consumer. It's nothing new. It is time to wake up though. Inflation is not getting any better, only worse by the day. As for me, I will gladly work 45 more minutes a day to pay for the increase in my plan with TransTech. I would like to suggest a company though for those of you who have children and want a good insurance policy for them. My husband is ordered to provide health insurance for his daughter from his previous marriage and we took out a terrific policy on her with Midwestern Life of Tennessee. For a PPO plan that pays just like a group plan with your employer we pay $98.00 a month. This is for an 18-year-old female. Might be worth checking into. They will also take it directly from your checking account every month. They pay their claims well and on time and we've NEVER had a problem with them. Good luck to you all.
They would have to increase it by about 30% , that is
if they want to keep the MTs and want the MTs to type those spaces... LOL
RE: VR..anybody been able to make an increase in pay doing ME?
I more than doubled my production editing voice recognition drafts, and I am completely happy with the pay I receive for my efforts.
VR..anybody been able to make an increase in pay doing ME?
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Webmedx MTs, 30% increase with ASR?
I keep hearing this is the productivity percentage an MT will see with ASR at Webmedx. What has your experience been?
Please share:
How long you've worked at Webmedx
How long you've been on ASR at Webmedx
If and how your production has changed (numbers/percentages if you have them)
I'd like to know how much of this promise of increased earnings is truth.
Thank you.
I think you might be wrong about a 30% increase sm
maybe a 30% decrease for ASR reports is correct. I don't know for sure though.
I got a significant increase when I
went to this company. Pay is based on experience, like anywhere else. You get adjustments based on quality score. I got a raise the first quarter. Regarding the negative comments about demographics, they were time consuming to me at first but CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE to eliminate a lot of the data entry on the unpaid screen. I don't spend any more time on demogs now than I did at any other company. 
LPH and increase speed
As I mentioned before, I am struggling with speed.
I am curious what most people start out typing (LPH) and how quickly you increased to your max (many mentioned they are 200-300+) lph. Anyone who will share on this?
I appreciate it!
Try 9 for decrease and # for increase.
NM
Have you asked them about an increase for the
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Can anyone help me increase my lines?? sm
I've read how some of you produce 250-300 or more lines per hour without VR. I'm wondering if you have the same docs every day who say the same things over and over so you use alot of normals and shortcuts. I mostly type for 1 hospital, not that difficult of an account, use many shortcuts but can't seem to produce more than 175 lines per hr. I've been doing this for quite some time and am getting discouraged at the end of my shift. Any tricks of the trade would be very much appreciated.
Should I ask for an increase or just be glad I have a job? sm
I know with the economy the way it is, I should probably just keep quiet and be thankful I have an income. I realize there are many here that are without jobs and my heart goes out to you.
I have 18+ years of experience working in this field. Six months ago I was hired by a national to cover a cardiology clinic account at .08 cpl. I'd say at least 70% to 75% of the dictators are either ESL or mumbling/speedy Americans on a good day. Today I have 100% ESLs!. There are probably only two or three decent dictators in the whole lot if you can find one in the queue. Turnover on this particular account has been so bad that cherry picking is actually permitted!
I've already applied for a other accounts within the company (that were advertized on various job boards) and haven't had any luck yet. I probably won't get the opportunity to move because they can't keep this account covered.
With that being said, would it be unreasonable to ask for an increase to at least .09 to stay on this account? The only other way I have a chance of making any money is to type for 10 hours a day.
Sorry I couldn't give you the short version! TIA!
VR does not necessarily increase
your speed. If you are making lots of corrections, then you will actually lose ground.
Dang - that's just a bit more than increase in
See link below for online calculator that lets you see what $x in a certain year should be worth today. I plugged in $14 and 1999, and it shows it would be worth $17.79 today.
That means that your 10 years of loyalty, seniority, accumulated knowledge about your platform and client sites, etc. are worth 21 cents.
Here's the calculator:
http://www.aier.org/research/worksheets-and-tools/cost-of-living-calculator
20% increase in production - haha!
haven't they been repeating over and over to you that you WILL see a 20% increase in production RIGHT AWAY!! after you conquer DQS then they're going to throw ASR at you and swear up and down that you'll have a 25% in production and they're going to cut your baseline rate by 20% to become a Medical Editor -- doesn't that sound just peachy!! i recalculated my last check with my MT work and my ME work and it came out to be $50 less because of the 20% decrease on my baseline rate for the honor of doing ME work (i have until 10/1/05 before the cut takes place). Oh, but you have your choice of doing 100% MT work and keeping your baseline rate, but guess what you'll be getting the docs that the voice recognition system can't do, therefore, you will probably see a 25% decrease in production. Heck, now as it is, the VR program can't pick up the little words like an, and, in, etc right and it's even leaving out very, very clear words that a very, very clear dictator is saying, so you figure how you're going to have a 25% increase on production when you're pecking nonstop on the keyboard like when you first started typing on a manual typewriter?? Tell me again, how grateful we're supposed to be for working at MQ? And, yes, I know I can go to MTJobs.com and find another job, but you know what, there's principles and if we just walk away from how we're being treated we're just going to be treated like that at another MQ-like company. Something needs to be done so they know that we don't appreciate being treated like someone with a 5th grade education.
What is the line rate for IC's, does it ever increase? nm
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promised rate increase
I have to 100% agree with your statement as I personally experienced just what you stated.
I think OP meant an 30% increase in productivitySM
I don't think the original poster meant a 30% increase in pay, but a 30% increase in productivity!
Has anyone seen a line increase in the last 2 days?
Interesting, working the same but lines have increased by about 200 per day.
I did ask that, it would increase accuracy, productivity, TAT....sm
She took me off one of the two clinics so now I only have about 35 docs and maybe 10 specialities, but I believe this is only temporary since I am having trouble familiarizing. I just get the impression that I am not up to par where I should be and I'm surprised, as I'm a quick study. And to pour salt in it, my two QA people on our Messenger List notated next to their names yesterday that they were typing ___ and listed my account name. These ladies only type when backed up. So I think I'm bogging them down:( I feel so inadequate, and for less than 8 cpl. Oy.
Do you love their insurance increase as was
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Fuzzy math. A 40% cut in pay is not offset by a 40% increase
in production.
To break even in this picture, you would have to have a much greater increase in production. IF you currently do 2000 lines a day at 8 cpl, and your new "blended" rate pays 4.8 cpl, you would have to do 3,334 lines to break even, or at least a 67% increase in production. Do you all really think you can do it?
when minimum wage goes up do IC rates increase also?
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as others have said, increase dictation speed, let spellchecker do it's job
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I believe everyone starts off at 8 cpl and usually reviewed in 90 days for an increase.
There is also incentive pay if you go over 1200 lines a day or 6000 in a pay period I believe. That is about all I know.
No they don't. There is slight increase for evenings and nights;
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No, soon the government will increase the minimum wage
and MTs will be the working poor. Sad business this is.
But an increase every few months isn't in the lesson plan.
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Voice will reduce transcription and increase editing
along with lowering pay across the board. There is a company I left after a short period of time who bought into Dragon's sales pitch. It was a medical management company who thought they could make a quick buck moving into MT. They bought the sales pitch without understanding the whole picture.
They hire at $8 an hour, have great benefits and expect you to kill yourself for that $8 an hour. IF you edit more than 16,000 lines a day for each pay period (2 weeks), then you pay bumps up to $10/hr. But if the average for any pay period is less than 16,000 lines per day, you get stuck with your $8 and are told if you don't like it leave. Well, I did. The day after I left they announced they were sending the editing to India. Ain't that a kicker? Their reason? To get the MTs in India to train Dragon so the American MTs can make their 16,000 lpd goals and have happier employees
Things that make you go hummm.
d~
My husband got a raise to cover his increase, the lucky bum. nm
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You DO get a line rate increase for passing the CMT at Webmedx. sm
Ask your supervisor.
that is such a shame.
I have lots of work. What kind of account were you on? The platform I am on is great and the sound quality is the best I have ever worked on. When it did start to get slow for me, they gave me another account and then told me I could have another on top of those 2 if I needed it.
Funny how things can be so different for people.
The shame is that many of your
colleagues who are scheduled to work do not hold up their end often forcing the company to add others to keep the work covered. It is a shame with fault on both ends of the stick we keep poking each other with.
And it would be a shame if somebody.....
ACTUALLY put their real name on here and had enough maturity to say who they are --- Gee! If you mean what you say, you shouldn't be afraid to say who you are especially if you are legitimate. And if you are legitimate, anybody that has any common sense would know this is not how you take care of a problem - in a grown up world at least.
None taken.....it's a shame, isn't it? nm
:(
What a shame
I worked for them when they were HealthScribe and I hated them. I left as soon as my 6-month sentence was up and I never looked back. I was hoping that with the Spheris merger things might have gotten a bit better, but it's apparent they haven't. Reading this brought back so many memories (all unpleasant). It's really a shame - they give the transcription field a bad name. 
It's a shame, they used to be
very well respected. I worked there for a little more than a year and saw things happen that I did not agree with (training in Trinidad, etc..).
I never really had a problem with management. My first manager was promoted (she was great). The lady who replaced her...I think she bit off more than she could chew and realized that the position was too much for her. Then my team finally got a new manager and she was nice as well.
To me, the pay scale was not hard to figure out. It was based on lines per hour, QA score and how much work you sent through to QA. It was, unfortunately, on the low side. The account I was on was very good, so I didn't have a problem meeting my line count. I have heard that the recruiter they have now (who is not the recruiter that hired me) couldn't explain how the pay scale worked.
All in all I felt they were a decent company. The Trinidad thing made quite a few people nervous and unsettled. I was one that was uncomfortable with it. I thought the grass would be greener on the other side, but it wasn't. Honestly, I would go back if offered. I miss the flexible scheduling and the account I was on.
its a shame
that its happening and also the poor MT that have lost respect also.
Shame on him then!!
Shame on him then!!!
shame on you all
And you are NOT a class act. You are dishonest. That unemployment money comes out of my pocket (government = taxes). It's not money from Keystrokes. You were working; therefore, you don't deserve unemployment. (Duh!) I don't care if you got the account from hell. Too bad. Life's not fair. Move on and work for your money.
What a shame.
What a shame that any company would jeopardize the livelihoods of its employees for such obvious disrespect of the law and for a person who certainly has a right to live their life without the intrusion of their employer. Who of us can give 100% to their job if we have family and other responsibilities? It shows the extreme short-sightedness and disregard of common law that this man has. I hope that people remember this when they see his ads for employment and that hard working MTs steer clear of a company such as this. Ego that is so inflated as to think you are above the statutes that govern how you do business is just too much .. I hope this woman takes him to the cleaners! Her intention was to return to work. He has no right to determine whether or not she can give 100%, most particularly for such an owner, good luck with that!
What a shame
Such a shame that companies ruin their own reputations by permitting unprofessional ''Ms Nasties to run rampant. They miss out on some good/sharp MTs who simply refuse to work with unprofessional rude people with obvious issues. To put up with silly whimsical nit-picking QAs is bad enough, but rude supervisors who abuse their little modicum of authority is enough to make many an expert MT say thanks but no thanks and move on.
And shame on you
for making assumptions which have no basis in fact. No one squashed the crap (is gutter language necessary in your posts?) out of anyone. I was merely stating something that anyone should have known. And no, I do not work for MDI. Stating you had no work is not legally actionable, but casting aspersions on another's character is. And yes, I quote the Golden Rule and live by it.
That's a shame
sorry for your boyfriend's loss. :(
Shame on you WMX. Shame on you!
All of your talk about being bold and being better than the rest, I actually feel nauseated. You are no better than the rest. I am so disgusted with this industry and what you are doing to us.
that's a real shame
sorry to hear they sold out in such a huge way... they didnt used to think this way.
That's a shame but hang in there
I'm do a different platform/client, but I also hired in this summer, and went through a rough time at first. I talked to my supe, and after changing my schedule a bit and taking on two secondaries, things have become much better, and there's actually been OT on my accounts for the last few weeks.
Check the backlogs on the community page. Some accounts regularly have OT approved (its in the little box at the top left, who's approved for OT and for how long). Maybe you can get trained on some of those. Are you willing to change your schedule at all? My accounts consistently have certain heavier days than others, and before I was off during the heavy days. My supe asked me to shift my schedule and it has made a very positive difference.
And what a darn shame too, because if there
wasn't the MT no one else would have a job.
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