Where do you live? The hospital I work for has two openings and they pay hourly, SM
Posted By: RockinMT on 2008-12-05
In Reply to: Are there any hourly jobs for very experienced acute - care MT's? Should I give up and get out? sm
but they require that you train in-house for at least the first 90 days (sometimes it is shorter/longer depending upon how quickly you pick up the nuances of the job) and you are required to come in for quarterly department meetings
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hourly QA openings
Try Medquist, we have openings, all positions are hourly, QA specialists (filling in blanks) and QA auditor (client reviews). Apply on their website under professional opportunities.
Check the hospital web sites. Most have their job openings on line now. nm
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Why would the money be better at a hospital? It is hourly RO
...well it is *usually* hourly, but the sky is the limit when you are on production. I guess you just have to find the right company for at-home (I have, some have not), because I can be in contact with someone to ask a question within mere seconds via IM or phone. Everyone has their own preference, though. I liked the food at the hospital cafeteria! LOL
Hospital hourly PLUS production
I worked in-house (then later from home) for a hospital. We had hourly pay (but couldn't slack off because we had a minimum number of lines we HAD to transcribe) if we wanted to keep our jobs. We also had incentives in the form of tiered bonuses for all lines over the minimum required, so the more we typed, the more we made. We had to have at least 98% on our monthly QA. Yes, the benefits were much, much better.
I was told, if you live near hospital, can get better deal with
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I live in CT. I pulled up the hospital list for my state
If you have any leads, feel free to send me an e-mail. TY!
I currently spoke with a local hospital and their pay was hourly with an incentive (nm)
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I used to make an hourly rate at a local hospital but s/m
The home-based MTs were on a tiered hourly scale depending on how many minutes we typed daily. The in-house MTs were not on this scale and I believe they are the reason we lost our jobs to outsourcing. They made the big bucks and could not even produce 80 minutes of dictation a day. The home MTs had to produce 100 minutes a day to reach the maximum hourly pay.
I feel that being paid by production is not such a bad thing because at least the ones who produce get paid for it.
Does anybody live near Trenton, NJ? If so a hospital position 40 hr week is available...sm
This requires a quick response on your part, because there are two positions open and I don't want to post this on the job seeker's board. The ft position is hospital transcription, hourly wage, all bennies and PTO and holidays. The other position is team leader for the MT department, directing work flow and working with staff. People are now interviewing, but wanted to give a chance. email me if you want to, because I will not name this on post. Thanks
First for hospital, then outsourced still on same hospital work
and believe it or not, the hospital was so much easier. Had worked at the hospital for 11 years before they outsourced and then worked another 3+ years for the company they outsourced to. What a difference! The company had so many rules and regulations you could hardly keep up with them all, thousands of them, on the same account, mind you. The higher ups would not leave you alone, constant IMs about any and all. I have gotten to the age where I do not need all that and walked the other week. Have scheduled testing with another hospital for this month. Hope I make the cut, love the hospital work 1000 times more than a company.
They have created a new position that pays hourly. Anyone know what the hourly rate range is? NM
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A combo hourly/incentive or straight hourly rate based on
A platform where MTs have had major input in developing it.
10 annual days of PTO, at average hourly rate.
Affordable, decent health insurance.
QA done by very experienced high-level MTs, with open and respectful communication between QA and the MTs.
I live in KY but work for a PA office
and haven't received it either.
Why wouldn't they? I live in NY and I used to work
for them. Key word is USED to.
If they live up to their name, I'd love to work there!
I'm sure I could pass their test! ROFLMBO!
You make an hourly wage when you run out of work? sm
I am confused. Is that right - you make an hourly wage when there is no work available? How long has that been going on? I have worked there for some time and have NEVER been paid for when there was no work. Please explain.
Plenty of work if you live in India
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I work at home and I live in the Midwest.
You have to consider the job market and cost of living in your area of the country. I think I'm doing pretty darn good. If I factor in the incentive pay, I'm making around $35 per hour.
Wanna work for an hourly QA position?
1. The reason it is hourly is so they can pay you on a 1980's pay scale. It is nothing more than bait to use as an excuse to pay you less.
2. Many hourly QAs tend to dump jobs they don't want for someone else to do the dirty work. The high producers who care about their work end up doing most of the work.
3. If you get paid by the line you make at least 50% more. I left an hourly QA job about a month ago for one that pays by the line and I doubled my income within two weeks. By working on the long jobs other QAs don't want, I make a lot of money.
4. Hourly QAs make about half of what good MTs make.
5. QA in general is one of the most thankless jobs around. I left MT for QA so I could share my knowledge. What a joke. The MTs argue with you and never stop making the same mistakes. Not only did I lose a lot of income, I hated coming to work every day to get the same reports from the same lazy MTs and then get nasty emails from the same MTs. I got stuck with the jobs the other hourly QAs didn't know how to do or didn't want to do. Why should they care? They get paid no matter what.
I don't know where you live but where I live foreclosures are rising and there are no jobs -- non
I worried about my employer for part of the winter as my accounts grew sparse. I had plan to switch to being an employee with benefits but dared not make the switch in this economy (this was last year this time, got it?)
I figured keeping my seniority was worth whatever security it afforded.
My accounts have rebounded some and I can pay my bills.
By economizing seriously, I have paid off my credit card and put some money aside, just in case. I'm breathing easier, thanks.
So, all in all, I'm not complaining. This last winter was brutal, but I had a job and I paid my bills. When employment rebounds and/or national health goes into effect, people will go to the doctor again and we will be busy.
My part of the world is like a ghost town -- everyone who could left to find work in the city -- many apparently leaving their homes to the banks. Several houses in my vicinity have been on the market more than 4 years.
Forgive me my loyalty ... it pays the bills.
What does yelling at the rest of us do for you?
How does MD-IT work...do you work for the region in which you live?
If I live in the MidWest Region do I work for the Midwest Office in Mpls/St. Paul? Seems like the benefits are great. Anyone currently work for MD-IT and could tell me a bit about the company! Appreciate it!
I need to change the name I use. I work for Keystrokes but live in Kansas. I am truly KS MT but ot
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Lots of companies require you to work live in their
system and dial-up won't allow you to do that. Some companies ask for DSL/Cable so it is less taxing on their servers for people to download. I know there were companies who are okay with dial-up because you just download and then work off-line, but I think those numbers are dwindling.
Where you live doesn't factor in when you work with nationals.
When you work on-line, companies will pay the same regardless of whether you live in NYC or in some small town. I live in a small town and I am nearing $40,000 as an IC for 2 national companies. My pay is not based on where I live or my cost of living, rather on my production. I am paid 8 cpl, but because I use an Expander and can transcribe 250 lph, I make a decent wage.
This is only my third year as an MT and I have been with one of my companies for a year and a half and the other one for 8 months, so it doesn't take years and years. I did have to change jobs a few times though until I found the right companies and the right accounts that I could make money on. Some of the accounts I worked in the beginning had so many ESLs and the platforms were so slow that I knew I could never make any money there.
Does anyone work for NEMT making their hourly wage?
Doing editing? Anymore information?
If your hired at an hourly rate and you run out of work, then you dont get paid anything??
Just saying, you worked a total of 3 hours one day, ran out of work for two hours, then for that day you only get paid 3 hours? That would suck and it wont pay my bills.
oh and they have incentive if you type over where they add $$ to your hourly rate for all hours work
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Like I said - it depends who you work for. I work for a hospital at home - not a company. nm
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As ICs at the hospital I used to work at ...
you got a contract for 2500 minutes monthly at $1.50 a minute. All minutes past 2500 in the month were $1.75.
Same here, no hospital work.....:(
Bills to pay and no work....
Hospital work
I do think spring breaks are playing a part in this. I work a few independent accounts and half of my docs are out this week. I also think the situation is made worse because of the services overhiring due to ridiculously promised turn around times. In the case of the account I work on for a service, the client expects and contracted for H&Ps guaranteed back in 2 hours, but on the other hand, no guarantee from them regarding the volume of business. A win-win situation for all but the MT.
hospital work
I was working for a group of hospitals managed by one company. Therefore, I had about 300 different doctors to transcribe for. Other than radiology, you never knew who would be coming up next. It really is just a matter of what you get used to.
Hospital work
I'm in Georgia - don't know if this is the Tri-State you are talking about, but would like to apply. Would you mind emailing me with info?
Hospital work - sm
Come on people - do your foot work and search. These positions are out there, you just need to search.
Cooper Hospital in NJ was looking for at home MTs for Radiology - don't know if that was filled.
Baptist Health in Texas hires @home MTs.
The one in GA has been filled.
The hospital I work for
I am not sure what it means for us yet. I did work for an MTSO part-time for 6 months. The hospital had better pay and a much better benefit package. Another benefit is that I am familiar with the territory. I don't have to google every nursing home, hospital, doctor's clinics, doctors name in the area as I am familair with them and their specialities. I hope that makes sense.
Hospitals can be unsteady. I have worked for 2 different ones. The first one was going to shut down but that didn't happen, then it was going to merge with another hospital, that did not happen but it gave us a great scare a few times. The same thing with the one I am working at now. It was going to merge with another hospital. They opened a surgery center and that took away some of our work. Now they wre saying they are going to go to VR. It is not here yet but they are seriously talking about it.
KS - Does anybody work of the hospital (sm)
that we have not been able to work in for several hours now due to their internet problem? I'm new - how often does this happen? Is this rare? I sure hope so!
Thanks!
I work for the hospital... sm
And we have vendors. Because we are paid hourly, it's only fair that we are kept busy.
Hospital Account Work
Go to mtdaily.com and check on their jobs page. There are numerous. Diskriter has issues; be careful. Of course, all places of employment have those, but some you have to be very careful with. It is great to work at home, and there are some great employers. If you don't need benefits, I'd suggest working as an independent contractor as you can set your own hours. However, if you need more discipline and the benefits, working for a national company might be great for you. Good luck.
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.
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.
I work for a small hospital...
which is going through some changes (selling out to another organization). My question to you is what area are you in. I have been trying to get an hourly rate for my area for a while now and can not get an answer. I also get paid per minute, not production per se, just a certain amount for every minute of dictation I do. I do the basic four which also includes radiology and psychiatry. A little over a third of my work is radiology. Please e-mail me.
I work for a hospital and it happened to me.
after I had my baby. I finally made my way back home. They also tried to do it to another pregnant woman and she quit.
Yes they do on everyone, just hired, work for them, not hospital.(nm)
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JLG did work for our local hospital when I was there.
They charged us $3.50 a line. I saw the contract. I was shocked. We paid ICs $1.50 a line. And the work was horrible. Everytime they uploaded reports, 2 of us spent most of the day correcting them. After about 6 months, we fired them.
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.
I work for a hospital out of Texas also and....
My work has been slow to non-existent since Thursday before the hurricane. I did about 6 jobs yesterday. I heard one of my dictators tell his nurse to cancel the rest of his patient's visit as his mind is not on seeing patients, as he had to find a well pump. I don't know how much longer I can be without work. I am hoping I get paid, as my transcription company is based in Texas too.
We get a differential at the hospital I work for
If half your hours or more are worked after 3 p.m., you get $1.50/h extra (we get paid hourly). I work 10:30-7 (with half hour lunch) in order to get the differential.
That's your experience. The hospital I work for
has staff available 24/7. We have several major hospitals in the area that run 24/7 in most departments. Each area of the country is different. I have NEVER run out of work on the weekends and I transcribe everything from radiology, ops, to simple ER reports.
any openings
I have six years experience the last two include transcribing and QA. Looking for a PT job to supplement. Prefer microcassette/dictaphone but will also do FTP. Multi-specialty, peds, OB/GYN, family practice, etc.... Please let me know if anyone has any leads or you are a company looking for help. I have at least 98% accuracy. I can provide excellent references.I can start immediately.
openings
I have over five years experience in numerous specialities. The last two years I have also completed QA. I am looking to supplement income with new accounts. I would prefer mircocassette or dictaphone accounts but will do others. Please email with any opportunities.
Job openings
Hi am from Canada, and am looking for a MT job from home. Currently I work for 20 doctors in Edmonton Alberta and am wanting to work from home so bad. I want to start part time, gradually into full time so I can quit my 9 to 5 job at the clinic. Any ideas>>>Anyone heard of Superior Global Inc. I received a phone call from them, it is a 1-800 number I cannot access from Canada. Go figure!!
Desperate here.
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