You all have a point. I forget how this at-home thing works. I used to work in-house at a hospital.
Posted By: Wandering MT on 2006-04-16
In Reply to: My company doesn't pay for ANY holdays if you don't work - txmt
and... we got paid extra for working holidays and even weekends and evenings. I am new to this at-home thing and it's pretty disappointing. I think I'm back to the hospital..
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Is that In-House or you work at home?
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Is it work from home or in house ...sm
in New York. That is a good job.
There are several. Are you lookin to work in-house or at home? nm
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A majority of at-home MT is overflow work with in-house getting the bulk of the work. If they clean
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That is one of many reasons why I chose to work at home! No thanks to in-house! Good luck. nm
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I work in-house at a local hospital...
And it's been pretty much famine conditions there, too. We're having to use our VH hours when we're called off for lack of work. I don't know where you're located, but I'm in central California. Perhaps it's a nationwide phenomenon for some reason.
Hang in there. The powers-that-be where I work keep telling us it's just temporary (although I'm preparing for the worst).
~hugs~
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 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 with a transcriptionist at our hospital who works for
them part time and she said they are just awful, but she needs the money so bad and no other company returned her call. She said she has a hard time with the voices, ESL and difficulty hearing the account.
I work as a hospital employee at home
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Anybody work at home for a Louisville area hospital?
Would you mind saying who and what it is like?
Like I said - it depends who you work for. I work for a hospital at home - not a company. nm
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I was paid by the hour to work from home for a large hospital. nm
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Don't ever forget that HR works for MGMT and not
My guess is that many in-house radiology MTs are being sent home
I suppose it is either they are changing companies they are working with and the new companies need staffing or radiology departments with on site MTs are now outsourcing.
I wonder how MDI is to work for.
All MTs, home-based or in-house, shoulda' staged a
WALKOUT years ago, before things ever got this bad.
One thing we should still do is all talk to labor organizers, because if ever a trade NEEDED a union BAD, it's this one.
And yeah, we could move on to other jobs. But don't think for a second that India/Pakistan/Philippines, etc. isn't ALREADY eyeing those jobs as the next ones to suck out of the U.S. ESPECIALLY any field that is dominated by women, because they know we don't have what it takes to get ourselves unionized, and to get our country to plug the ever-enlarging leak of American jobs and products to 'lowest-bidder' countries.
Look at what's happening everywhere in the world these days, and then be VERY embarrassed as you watch America repeatedly bend over and grab its ankles over and over again.
We're wimps, and the world knows it.
I was hospital in-house for 13 yrs
and only did radiology. There were gals who did basic 4 called the MR people.
Pathology, orthopedics, cardiology and the morgue, among others, had their own transcriptionists. NONE of us did everything.
Fair question.
Try in-house at a hospital.
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Do you work in-house here? I applied last August & was told in-house only and they weren't
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Mine works from home. I know many of them do. .nm
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I do believe the recruiter works at home.
Just like us, many recruiters work from their home and are still employees. Hope this helps.
same here, i use it for my in-house hospital job. love it
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I think she means in-house at the hospital. nm
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Here's another thing they can forget about:
Proofreading. Let India do it, if they're such hot bargain employees.
This site USED to post in house hospital jobs - sm
And this is just MY opinion, but I think what probably happened is that the hospitals were probably getting bombarded with every MTSO service contacting them, and individuals contacting them about outsourcing their work, and it probably became too much for them. An acquaitance mentioned one time that she had advertised on this board for on site and specified that it was on site, along with very specific job specifications, and apparently it didn't matter - everybody and their brother applied for the job, including waitresses and nannies who had never even had one iota of medical terminology, let alone job experience.
That's just my 2 cents
Don't forget first thing Monday morning
It never fails. All the accounts are cleaned out and you need to do 10 hours to get in your lines for the day
I was asking for someone who works at the same hospital (sm)
I used to work for. She was just inquiring about working at home MTing but was only interested in part-time. When I was looking over the companies, Webmedx seemed pretty good so I wanted to know before I gave her their info. I just went ahead and gave her their # and website so she can contact them. The company I work for doesn't have part-time so I couldn't refer her there! Thanks!
Hospital at home now.
Please forgive me but I really need to vent. I think I am at my lowest now. I have worked in local Hospital Radiology dept. for 10 years and was told I must work at home, or no job. I must provide high speed internet and pay for it, I provide space in my home and desk and chair, must show proof that my homeowner's policy will cover their computer equipment, and must show picture of area in my home showing a door for HIPAA compliance, they say. I get 9 cents per line, only what I type, one line each for headers and footers. They won't tell me how they determine a line, they won't say if macros and normals are included. I went to personnel and they say my department head determines what and how she pays and they won't interfere. I have a one year old mortgage so can't say no, and my pay is down to 8-9 dollars an hour, and that is before I deduct what I have to pay to work at home. When I told my supervisor that the new program they put in is not Transcriptionist friendly, she said, no it's not, it is mainly designed for Voice Recognition. I can't check my lines, they give me a paper with total lines for the last two weeks on it with my paycheck. I feel abandoned and abused. I called local labor board and they said if I was getting minimum wage and overtime pay as required by law, then I should be thankful I have a job!
I am about to default on my mortgage, and have three kids to worry about too. Can it get any worse than this?
hospital vs at home
i would love to work at a hospital again. i've been working from home for not quite 2 years now, and the ONLY advantages for me are the hours that i work and being able to be close by in case of a family emergency. and of course, the price of gas.
other than that, i now understand why all the people i know who tried working from home went back to their in office jobs. the pay was so much better, you have contact with people who will answer your questions, most of the time you know your dictators, or at least have the same few, and if you have questions you can actually walk up to them or call them and ask them. at home jobs just leave you clueless and payless, basically. thats just my experience obviously. lots of folks love working from home.
THE POINT IS ....is that she works
You are totally missing the point. The woman does not work in the office...she works from home. It doesn't matter if she works in a dedicated office, the living room, bedroom etc...She DOES NOT work at the KS office, therefore she cannot comment factually about anyting that goes on in the KS office. Do you understand now?
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's in Kentucky has an In-House, days MT spot
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Is my KS friend who also works for the hospital that is down there? (sm)
Wow! Three days in a row now! And this is my first week! ha! It really helped me that you haven't had this problem for four months and also the director, I know I cant say names here, reasurred me too, and I completely trust her. Well, you knew it was back up before me yesterday, so, let me know if you here anything! Thanks ----
Hospital versus At Home
The hospital I work for has finally said I could work at home. I am wondering if there are experienced people that can tell me the cons of working at home. I am looking forward to it but need to know if I need certain things and what kind of books to buy.
At-home hospital jobs
Does anyone know of any hospitals that let you work remotely as a full-time employee with benefits? Thanks!!
At-home hospital jobs
I have 12+ years of experience in most medical fields. I am in the Fort Collins area.
I heard a year or so ago that Chestnut Hill Hospital in Phila. was hiring in-house MT's
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I'm moving to Hawaii!!! Here in PA our hospital sent the MTs home but
they must do 100 minutes a shift. They also have to go to meetings once a month at the hospital which they do not get paid for, then have to go home and make up that time. Pay isn't that great either.
Is there really any way I can go wrong to accept at-home hospital job?SM
My national seems to be losing ground as we have had DD taken away effective August 1 and already had had our 401k discontinued about 2 years ago. I had said I would stay with the national until I actually did not have a job anymore. However, there is an at-home hospital job open fairly nearly to where I live. I'm making pretty good money with the national (although not nearly as much as about 3 years ago for various reasons), and so I'm wondering if it is pretty much always a good thing to go with a hospital job working at home if possible. I know they provide all equipment but I'm not sure abut the line rate. Minimum production is I think 1275 lines per day. Not sure about incentive (I know this will be a big factor here, as well as line rate) but all overtime is approved and has been for several years. I talked with the transcription manager earlier when the position first came open but we didn't talk specifics about pay. I also am pretty sure I could get a job with a national any time also - I have 29 years of experience and am a CMT. Any comments?
I went and got my own hospital account, at home, IC status. nm
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I never, ever heard of such a thing, even when I worked in-house.
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You make my point. Find what works for you. You
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THE absolute best job for me was at home hospital empolyee, production. sm
If they only knew the money they would be saving cutting out the MTSOs and hiring direct with, like you said, one or two in house to supervise.
I predict (okay, I'm praying, or meditating, or universing, or using the Secret for) the day to come through some major MTSO/OFFSHORE FUMBLE that will cause this evolution in our favor.
Oh, antie Em...health insurance again!
My last hospital did offer home-based employee positions. sm
They paid the employee positions by the hour with incentive and IC positions by the dictated minute.
It still was not as lucrative for me as my national position.
What works for one, however, may not work for others.
It is all about personal needs and opinions! Bully for you!!! :)
I have a friend working in a hospital and she is looking for a company from home as an employee.
Would anyone care to recommend a good company?
The only difference is we are at home and doc is hunted down by the hospital/client's staff
after we or our QA submit it with a blank.
It is a phone call away at times. This is not as anonymous as ADHI would like. Doctors these days need assistance by qualified MTs as it appears to me there are many with ADD. That is time consuming when dictating. And errors are deadly.
A friend of mine works for a hospital that has hired a director from one of the hospitals in
Pittsburgh and she wondered if he outsourced a lot of work or what he did when he goes into a new hospital. They have all at home employees now. I believe it was Allegheny Hospital.
I use SpeedType, and it works. The only thing
is when I'm searching for something on Google, my SpeedType doesn't expand when I have the platform open. It only works in the platform. I haven't figured that one out yet but no biggy. Platform is VERY easy and user friendly.
Yes, call waiting works. I also have call forwarding from my home line
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The first thing I point out is that
you have to go to school for it, learn medical terminology, medication dosages, diagnoses, biology, etc. They think it's just typing.
Point well taken. Money can be a good thing....
If you don't get caught up in trying to buy happiness...
DITTO every single thing he/she said. I won't go back to a hospital. nm
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