We were told somewhere in March
Posted By: anonymous on 2008-12-19
In Reply to: I wouldn't count on it - anon
this is suppose to take place. Now back in 2003 they outsourced us to Spheris and our doctors raised heck and it lasted almost three months and we were pulled back for the hospital. So my fingers are crossed this happens again. If not, I am not sure what I am going to do.
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Well she hired me for JLG last March so she
was there at least a year and from what I hear, the company she went to is a very good company. I don't think I would spend my time worrying about it if I were you. Maybe worry about yourself?
I have only heard sometime in March but don't know for sure when (nm)
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I took it last March and passed
There were no reports per se--they were snippets, and easy to understand ones at that. It was not a detriment using the mouse to control the audio in this case. The written portion was harder than I expected, but the transcription portion was much easier than I thought it would be.
Waiting for the results to pop up was a loooong few seconds. Good luck!
March 17, then every other Monday after that
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No not now. Through beginning of March I did though.
It was awful, awful, awful.
I actually have a very large primary, so I am quite surprised we were out and you weren't. Usually everyone else is in the pool for 2 or 3 days before I hit it. When it hits us, we know they're very low on work.
since March of this year
nm
I left in March of 2008 sm
They had switched from MTWorld, which I loved, to Emdat Inscribe, which I loathe.
My biggest complaint has to do with the team managers. Most of them are NOT MTs and are clueless. The more MT clueless they are, the more they micromanage. The MT manager...well if you had asked me when I had been there a year, I'd tell you she was a peach to work with, but I had not been able to say that for the last 18 months I had worked there. They grew a little too fast and lost that personal touch they used to have. Also, they are management top heavy. There are too many of them, too many QA people, too many IT people who aren't that great, and too many heads of this and heads of that. No way an MT company needs that many managers.
To top all that off, they have gone from the 8.5 later 9 cpl I was paid to 7.5 and 8 to start, from what I understand. No pay for headers and footers, even if you have to fill them in yourself. They like to issue MTs a fine for not following instructions and do so without giving a warning or two, just an instant fine.
Been at my job since March and work is steady
I work for a small U.S. company who does not offshore (and shall remain nameless, by me anyway). You have a primary account and a backup account. They do not over-hire so the work is mostly steady. I am told that it only runs low around the holidays. I'm pretty happy with that. At least you know the lull is coming and can prepare for it financially. My days at sitting at the computer waiting for work are over, for now anyway.
Someone asked in March and didn't get a reply, either. nm
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They are hiring for new accounts that are coming on in March. I called and asked. As far as
no work, it will catch back up. There are ebbs and flows with every company and I, for one, am not worried about it.
I don't hesitate to ask. Have been told "yes", and have been told "no." Never been to
:+
You are right, I told ek to do like ET...
Have they told you that you are going to
be a MEDICAL EDITOR? It's semantics, like the "MLS" title for a transcriptionist. Sounds really impressive to be called a "medical language specialist," but...HELLO...you're a TRANSCRIPTIONIST.
You are going to be nothing more than a custodian, cleaning up the junk that the "hookt on fonix" MACHINE REPLACING YOU has generated and for less money. If the dictators are half decent, you might be able to fly through a report in minimal time, but if you have to sift through the GARBAGE, only to wind up transcribing most of the job yourself, you are definitely going to lose money.
Do you eat only what you are told? If not, try them...
nm
Told me the same
Same bull came from Jennifer week to week.
THANK YOU! I'm usually told how I should RUN
and all kinds of upset stuff.
Thank you! I hope to someday!!!
What I was told
Here is what I was told when
I switched to DQS from Medrite.........
You actually were getting "free lines" on Medrite with the information that populated onto the (TES screen) actual report, for example, patient name, account#, MR#, dictators name, signing physician, address, etc. This accounted for about 6-8 lines per report. Needless to say, and I KNOW THIS FROM EXPERIENCE, a doctor could just hang up on that report and NOT SAY A SINGLE WORD and I would get paid those "free lines" because it was information that populated on the report.
With that being said, if you were typing 8-10 reports an hour, then multiply that by 6-8 for your "free lines" PER REPORT that would account for anywhere from 48 lines to 80 lines AN HOUR! Now, take that 48 to 80 lines per hour and multiply that by how many hours you work in a day. This is why and how you will see a decrease in your lines!
The problem is, is that with DQS, you ARE NOT PAID for the patient's name, account #, MR #, physician name, and so on. I believe this is where the misconception of DQS being a horrible platform and/or MQ screwing their MTs started.
All in all, I am able to type the same amount I was in Medrite per hour. The more you add to your word Expander and familiarize yourself with the platform, the better you will be.
Within a few weeks you will get used to it. I average 300 lines an hour and like DQS very much.
no but I was told that
people who were making a certain rate before DEP training were cut before the training. I heard this second hand from a girl in my class.
That's not what I was told when..sm
I went to work for them. You must be management.
They should not have told you that. sm
There are very few people in this industry that make that much money, especially working for national companies. Do you use a word Expander and do you use it at its fullest potential? The most I ever made was 52K working for a hospital making 10cpl per 57 character line. One other thing you might consider is trying to get your own accounts. Where you may now make 7-10 cpl working with a national, you can make 15-17 cpl with your own account, provided you can handle the workload. Unfortunately, they sometimes fail to tell you that in school. Good luck!
No. Not that they told me. SM
They just told me about the training that I would be going through and kind of just sketched through it. It seemed like they offered okay benefits, but the pay seemed fair. I was just seeing if anyone actually took this position and could tell me more about it. Radiology would be nice too.
Yep, was told would get
...another one, it would be added to my queue that day, but it never happened. This was three weeks ago. How many times should I ask before they get mad at me? It must be nice to be salaried and not have to worry about paying the bills.
they told me no, but when I got the sm
contract, there is a place on there that asks what hours you most likely will be working, so it is not set in stone. I understand that anybody likes to know something but I have talked to others who work for them and they have no problem. I am going to give them a 12 hour span when I could be in there. So far, they have answered my questions to my satisfaction. We will see when I get started. But, I am anticipating everything will be fine.
I was told that too.
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I know who you are and you have told me
that you never checked to see if they were correct in their calculations when you were an MT - you just assumed they were right. No wonder you've advanced to QA....LOL. They love people like you.
Who told you not to?
nm
No, I'm not SURE...but it was what I was TOLD. That's way better than the 90% I was doing at a
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What I was told.
I interviewed and with over 20 years experience, was offered 8 cpl for MT and was told that was their tops, but you can get a little extra for shift differential. Also 4 CPL for editing reports. This is not VR, but work transcribed overseas. I don't feel comfortable proofing work for oursourcing as I am patriotic and I feel the CPL is way too low for experienced help. I am turning it down.
Was doing that, but QA told me not to do it.
So I assumed it was staying in the document when sent to client/QA.
I did not think that it would do that. But how would QA know that I had viewed in the larger type if it did not stay that way.
Thanks.
my guy told me about 30%
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we were told
that nothing would change for the first 100 days, which we are in right now.
Were you told (sm)
by the Lead MT or the tech person that they were too busy? Be persistent and hopefully that will help.
I was told my
testing was so exceptional that they would waive the requirement that I pay the interviewer's hourly rate for the time she spent with me. I was gobsmacked, I tell ya.
What I was told about the OT...
There is really no way of getting out of doing the madatory OT. They sent out an e-mail some time back that said that anyone not doing their required OT would face disciplinary action. What I was told was that if you absolutely could not do it on a given day, they would allow you to skip that day, but you were required to double up the next day.
Hi, they told me they have......
nothing available right now ....................
Thank you. Like I told someone else, I have (sm)
been doing MT work since the 80's and NEVER had this kind of trouble learning a new program/account. Was thinking it was just me and I was getting too old or senile to do this anymore. Thanks.
They told me no they don't.
for clinic accounts anyway.
They told me they pay 25%
and it would cost me approximately $280 and couldn't tell me how much it would cost to add my kids on.
They told me that the pay is between 9-11 cpl
which is great! I make 9.5 where I am now, so hopefully I'll end up with around 10 cpl.
I have told her
And its not that I'm upset, I was offering an explanation to why YOU may always have OT and others on your account may have no work.
Told ya' so....
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I think I was told $300, could be different now
NM
If more of us said no and told them willing to
negotiate, pay might come back up, but there are too many out there that will take whatever is offered.
I was told that they pay anywhere from...
99 cents to $1.05 per report, regardless of length, which would not be bad if you got a lot of x-ray reports and not too many CTs, MRIs, etc. I would try asking on the MQ board. I get comments from the MQ board in my email(due to the alerts and I have set up) and respond to them all the time.
I think it told you how...sm
to go about getting your own accounts in the book.
I was told...
for now, they require 1100, but in the future it will probably go up to 1300. Yes, I have noticed the omission of clear words.
i was told. by them..sm
Only employee status. 7.5 cpl.
Do you believe everything you are told? nm
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Who has told you or where have you sm
read that you are being phased out, as you say? I would hazard to guess that if you steadfastly maintain that you will not under any circumstances do ASR work, then yes, you would be phasing yourself out of a job.
Otherwise, I have not seen or heard anywhere that the MTs are being phased out.
Here's what they told me
last week. QA/QC is 16.00 per hour plus shift differential. VR is 6 cpl. The test was very easy, yet they said I failed, BUT offered me a job at 4 cpl. I think the test is just a way to test what they really want, which is 4 cpl VR editors.
Here's what I was told.......
I was told that 15 minutes of dictation was equal to 1 hour. That would be about right for me, because I usually can do 60 minutes, give or take some, in about 4 hours. This is all subject to change if you get a difficult dictator, one who likes to sleep while dictating, etc. Nothing is average in this job.
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