oooh. I do remember the post saying whoever it was they use escription
Posted By: walk the dog on 2007-07-18
In Reply to: It was TTS probably. nm - Msla MT
but I looked it up in the search engine but it didn't come up. I know TTS has a bad name from the looks of things.
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Yeah if I remember right, they are one of the low-paying Escription accounts out there, maybe 1.5-2
cpl or something ridiculous. Not actually livable US rates...
Oooh, that STUNG!
Actually, an MTSO is more often referred to as a Medical Transcription Service Organization, not "Owner." So, you're thinking that Frank from Medquist, or Sean from Webmedx, or Giselle from JLG, etc., etc., should be conducting interviews? Why not? Hey, they don't have anything better to do, right? All they do is run multi-million dollar companies, why not conduct a dozen or so interviews each day, to boot? And, after all, as an MTs "Owner," they know all about crazy people. (Riiiiight.)
Yes, my post was defensive. I always get defensive when people espouse ideas with little thought or logic behind them. It hopefully makes them think before they post again, and if not, it creates something for people to read on the board.
Why should I take it to heart? Because you're criticizing WHAT I DO! Duh! You're saying that I, as a recruiter, am not smart enough to pick a nutjob out during a 20-minute interview (but the MTS "Owner" can). I'll remember from now on that when you voice your opinion, I should not listen. Thanks for giving me fair warning. Next time, use "No one pay attention to what I say" as the subject for your post, would ya?
Methinks thou doeth protest too much re the psych evals....
And, for the second time, you've said all you have to say. Great! Have a good day!
Great Post! I remember this all now.
rusty! OP was great, but you really explained it very well to those of us who had forgotten.... much to think about.
OOOH I should rephrase that "crap" sm
statement. When I said that I was meaning what lots of MTs think about them. you know the MTs who complain about the OPs and ESLs, etc. I don't think either are crap and like you would rather do OP notes all day long and have told the company that. I would also think I had died and gone to heaven. Lots of things you can put in your key Expanders for OP reports huh?
Should have made that clear! Sorry!
Does anyone remember the post about traveling transcription
I see where the position was filled, but I cannot find the original posting for it, and I would be interested in at least sending a resume for future travel assignments. Does anyone happen to remember it or who it was for??
Amber - great post!! I remember selectrics....sm
And stayed on the Selectric for nearly 10 years pre-word processing computers (pre-Internet). I remember, we had no self-correcting - we had to use a white tape to remove a letter. But in those days, I did 2000 lines PER DAY!!! At 6 CPL. And I worked 5-1/2 days a week in their office. I had 12 accounts there. So, I know my value and I know I'm not making my line counts for the BIG national since 1/1/06. 
I agree with you that MTs will always be necessary. I too have been doing VR for about nearly 2 years and it all comes in terribly garbled via VR and we have to make it all nice and professional looking. I love VR though today, I rarely get any VR reports. Don't know where they have been farmed out to either.
Thanks for your insightful post!!! I, too, am tired of the moaning and groaning....something I never *indulge* in. All this complaining is an indulgence in my mind.
Be well and thanks again for your insightful post!! 
I remember the jewish post but I recall the poster
trying to turn the whole thread into something ugly because there was only a christian forum on that site. As a Jew, I was embarrassed by the whole thing. I remember an agnostic poster asking for a separate board and the owner added nondemoninational board. Just my two cents.
I remember your post several weeks ago..Hopefully, you still arent working for these people. I'm
sure they have been paid by their client. Why do they think they can rip people off. You need to post their name so that noone else bothers with them. Oh yeah, I think I remember now..It was someone named Joanna who asked for overflow help on podiatry, right? I am ashamed to admit that I submitted my resume. Luckily, she never called or I would be doing what your doing..Nightmare..
I think they emailed everyone who touched an eScription post..
I got four of them lol.
Just remember... proofread! You had a bunch of typos in that long-winded post!
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Just be aware that not all Escription accounts pay the same. I worked for one company on Escription
struggling to maybe make $50 in 8-10 hours. I didnt know the difference as that was my first job on that platform and I just thought it was not a money maker. Then, I switched companies. I average $20-30 an hour and once I made $50 in an hour. I tried yet another company and I was lucky to make $9 an hour. The bottom line is that not all companies are alike, even though they use the Escription platform. What I have found is that goes according to how they set it up i.e. paying for footers, headers, spaces etc. Just dont be shocked if you dont make what you think you will. The companies know how to set it to where it benefits them and not you. As is the norm, not all companies are created equal out there regardless if they all use the same platform. That is what I am getting out.. Good luck.
My post should say the post above not the post below, Sheryl's post to be specific. nm
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Wow, really. I can't even remember the
I will be calling KS today then. Thank you for your honesty and getting back to me.
I remember that, too. Everyone was trying to get on with them.
I had two MT friends who worked there, then things started going south. They kept trying to get me to apply there.
i remember...
a posting from someone saying they are good to work with and are hiring. sorry dont remember much else. good luck
I don't remember,
Sorry.
That is exactly how I remember it.
They did pay me a good line rate, but with no headers/footers, and I had a hard time making 1000 lines a day. I think I was on the worst account they had, BMH, about 90% ESL (worst I ever had too). My QA would call and scream at me for doing cardio, not for a mistake, but because I was not assigned to it. The clerks used to beg me to type it. She was supposedly the worst one there.
I can't remember her last name.
Been about 10 years since I worked for her.
I remember something about that but
don't remember which companies. Can someone please tell me if Amphion, Cymed or Medware is one of these companies? I'm about to apply to all 3 of them.
just remember...
The US MT will always be in demand. Unfortunately, in some cases only in an editing capacity. Do you think that work being transcribed in India is able to be edited and returned in an acceptable manner to the US doctor dictating it? Absolutely not. The foreign physicians in our country depend on us to produce properly formatted reports, so how can a MT from India possibly come close to accomplishing this if it were not for the editing US MT. You really can't blame the US physician who contracts with a national co. and does not know his work is going to India. Why can't HIPAA reinforce a regulation stating that no US transcription should ever leave this country in any capacity? Certain countries have restrictions on importing and exporting products. Why does are country not step up to the plat? MTs have to form some kind of alliance to stop this...petitioning the government, etc. Striking is not the answer because until some enforcement is in place, our jobs will continue to go overseas and back here for editing.
I think I remember you.
I remember the post (if it was yours) on the company board and remember it didn't stay on the board very long. If I remember correctly, even though they removed your negative (truthful) post, the majority of the posts that remained were negative, complaining about things like the terrible platform and some being afraid they would have to apply for food stamps soon.
And if you're the person I'm thinking of, I believe you and I even emailed each other a couple times because I, too, had many concerns when you brought yours to the board.
You weren't wrong, and neither was I. The only mistake I made was I stayed there a little longer than you did. I should have left when you left.
I can't blame the newbies either because they simply don't know any better. It's part of the process with this company. They make sure things are great at the beginning, and then the downward process slowly begins.
Every single thing you have said is true. If people don't want to believe it, then they can waste a few years of their life at Transcend, too. I'm just grateful that I now work for a credible, honest company and couldn't be happier. Hopefully, this will remain the case, and I can stay with this company for many years. But after my experience at Transcend, my radar is definitely always on, and at the first hint of preferential treatment to someone else or lies being told to me, etc., I won't hesitate to leave this company as I hesitated to leave Transcend.
How to remember
An easy way to distringuish is to think of the first 3 letters of adduction. You are adding it to your body, therefore it is towards the body. The same would be true for adductors, so just think of addition to your body in any form and you should be good to go. Hope this helps.
As far as I remember...sm
you had to do up a schedule for every week of the days you would be working. You picked the days and number of minutes you would commit to. So, if you were working part-time and committed to 50 minutes a day, you could work those whenever you wanted to, (50 minutes x 5 days) as long as you made your commitment. I don't think you ever had to work any weekends.
As for being an IC, I have never had this kind of insurance. As far as I am concerned, if the doc signs it, he is saying he read it over and agrees. I don't think any IC MTs have ever been sued, but I don't know for sure. Maybe post this question on the main board. The companies save big bucks using ICs so there must be something in place for protection. I think most MTs are ICs.
When you are an IC, you set yourself up as your own business, sole proprietor. It is as simple as registering your name. I have an accountant do my income tax every year and it costs about $200. Hope this helps.
i cant remember the name.. c msg
but the email came from someone in Recruiting (female's name). The same person who informed me about passing the test and contacting me on the next recruitment was the same one who sent me the attachments ot download. Our situation is very different, but just by their pay scale, you can do better. I can deal with not being paid for headings (I guess), but I cannot deal with not being paid for spaces.
I think I remember something about them on...
MtChat.com. but I cant seem to access it this week. I cant really remember the deal but apparently they did something to their employees that made a ton of them quit so that is probably why they are hiring. You might want to keep checking back at that website and see if it comes up and then it will let you do a search on them.
anyone remember
 Does anyone remember ddi, inc. Those were the days when transcription was a great job.
I remember that
I thought that those MTs had come from a company in the Sacramento area that had lost the majority of their work supposedly to VR. I also thought that a lot of those MTs were let go with only maybe a handful offered to stay on board.
I have not gotten my e-mail for the conference either. Maybe they are going to send it later on towards the end of the day Pacific time.
I do agree that our accounts do require that they be done here in the US. There have also been a lot of companies I suspect thought that have lied through their teeth about having work done here in the US and send it abroad.
What about MDI-MD? I remember once there was.. sm
a discussion about their line counts not being counted correctly either. Does anyone have any information on that?
maybe I did see that but I can't remember!
Thanks.
I remember them saying ...
... that it was an account by account fix and to be patient if it does not happen for you right away. Patience seems to be the word. Heck, it's been cockeyed since about the beginning of the year -- what's another week or 4...
Just remember you get what you pay for....
you left out the fact that while your on QA all those months, pay is 2 cents!!! I got suckered in by them a long time ago and hope all of you that are thinking about it, run while you can.
RE: Just remember you get what you pay for
Pay is not 2 cpl while you are in QA. You get charged for QA when you are out of QA but repeatedly abuse QA by sending things that are not necessary. I mean, if you're out of QA, is it really necessary to send half of your reports because somebody didn't want to look something up? Our dictators aren't bad, with the exception of maybe 2 or 3. It doesn't take anyone long to get out of QA unless they just aren't trying. A lot of things have improved at RC, one of them being that there is somebody there to help new hires and interns and feedback is given. I know this for a fact, because I am the one to do that. I hope you have a great day.
Can anyone remember the name...
Can anyone remember the name of the company that was advertising a while back for Transcriptionist that had changed their name. The manager came on and wrote out a big explanation for why they were still answering the phones with the old name even though they were supposedly not the same company...
It seems like the new name was All American MT or something like that - and the old company was an Indian-owned company.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
They have another one too, but I can't remember the name of it.
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From what I remember
Now it has been about 2 years ago, and I don't work for them anymore, but from what I remember training was all day for an entire week, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. There were breaks in between. I couldn't have done the training with my then 4-year-old. Thank goodness my husband was working 3rd shift and could take care of him while I trained. I hope this helps. I don't know how their training is now.
If i remember..
Chartscript platform..Actual IC. No schedule. Can't remember the pay.
What I remember
1. Use EXtext. I found it pretty easy and user friendly.
2. Cheapest health insurance close to $400 for 1 person. HMO and PPO available. Too expensive for my blood!
3. Deductable on above $2500.
4. ESLs - about 75%, frequently ran out of work, asking for more accounts = must be trained and then no one available to train you for weeks.
5. QA - cold, no follow-up explanations, nowhere near enough in the beginning. Come down on you weeks later after never having told you about issue in the first place.
6. Emails very untimely.
7. Must go to them (New Jersey) on your own dime for flight, hotel, taxi, meals. Train for 3 days (could have been done over the internet), stay working for them for 6 months (if you can stand it that long - I couldn't!) in order to be reimbursed only $500 of your expenses.
8. Yes.
9. Yes.
just remember
They have the option of telling you they don't need your services.
You have to remember that there are
many MTs looking for new jobs at the moment and this is a very slow time of year for most MTSOs and facilities.
You also have to remember that you
may not be concerned about 98% QA, however, they can ding you for whatever they want -- not what the facility wants, some weird quirk the facility has, etc, so you don't make 98%.
Hey....I remember.....
.....the old, blue screen!!! Just goes to show our ages, I guess. LOL! In any case, I have worked with Meditech in the past (without text expander) and made pretty good money with it. As has already been said, once you get the hang of it, it seems to move along quite smoothly. And, for radiology, it is nice to see the actual type of report, i.e. CT head, beside the order number. On many other programs, you have order # only (which significantly slows things down if the physician does not dictate the order #). And, from what I can remember (have not worked on it for 4 years), I hardly ever had to fix things, as, IMO, the physicians seem to understand this program better and are more likely to enter the proper demographics. With all of that being said, I personally will be working again with Meditech soon (IC part-time - in addition to my FT acute care EXText job), and am looking forward to checking out the updated version with text Expander compatibility! If Meditech was really all that bad....why would an MT with 15+ years experience care to go back to it? You might as well give it a try - add some more experience to your resume. Best of luck to you!
I seem to remember
700 being the number for part-timers and 1200 for full-timers
Do you remember
what the reports were like in comparison to what you type now?
There are so many factors involved in this line of work, it drives me batty!
Ah. Now I remember that. I got on
here and defended them because it wasn't true at all. It made me furious that someone was bashing them like that. They are the most honest company I've ever worked for and they treat all their employees like humans, not like machines.
If you never worked for them, you shouldn't spread rumors. The only ones I know who leave bad comments about them are probably trouble makers to begin with, probably paranoid and never happy in whatever any job.
I am very happy at TT, and have been since day 1 and they are really the best.
This is what I use to remember
which form of followup to use.
Followup is a noun. Follow up is a verb. Follow-up is an adjective.
but remember
there is always going to be SOMEONE that has something bad to say about a company....now do not get me wrong if there are TONS of bad posts then that is probably not the place you would want to work...you just have to go with your gut!
Remember when....
not too long ago we would get emails at least twice a day informing us of work load on each account? Not anymore cuz there is none!
LOL, thanks so much, and yes I remember that (sm)
NOW, lol. I love orthopedics, have loads experience and was interested in it part time but, oh well, will have to look for something else. Lesson learned .... act QUICKLY, lol.
OK, remember me then when you need help
LOL! Good luck.
just remember...
what goes around comes around. If you are ever in a situation where a little kindness and compassion would be appreciated, I sure hope people don't behave the way you are.
Near as I can remember
the whole family worked all day to buy enough hamburger meat for supper and they were still hungry after eating it all. I would say it would take about a bushel of picked peaches to equal 9 cpl.
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