Fact: You didn't mention the lawsuits again.
Posted By: Hmmmm.... (sm) on 2005-10-27
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New MT Class Action lawsuit (Myers v. MQ, 10/05/05) ... of course still pending:
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MEDQ&script=411&layout=-6&item_id=764434
MT Class Action lawsuit (Hoffman v. MQ, filed 11/29/04) ... still pending:
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MEDQ&script=412&layout=-6&item_id=653772
Shareholder lawsuit (Steiner v. MQ, filed 11/08/04) ... still pending:
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MEDQ&script=412&layout=-6&item_id=653771
The So. Broward Hospital District lawsuit (filed 09/09/04) ... still pending: http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MEDQ&script=412&layout=-6&item_id=623344
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MEDQ&script=412&layout=-6&item_id=628113
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Shareholder derivative lawsuit (Kanter v. Barella, MQ named 'nominal defendant,' filed 11/12/04) ... dismissed:
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MEDQ&script=411&layout=-6&item_id=763934 ........ (interestingly, no original press release on this one ... maybe because filed against Philips and MQ only named 'nominal defendant,' so why bother?)
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Mention offshore - It's a fact.
Why would an industry fact offend someone? I would be more offended if someone sugar-coated the truth and said there was no offshore and wages were going up, and I found out differently after shelling out money and time training for this job.
Sorry, but your OP made no mention of the fact that you did not discuss your situation with this guy
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I didn't see it. I won't give in to the fact that
I HATE the preliminaries. You get ALL the freaks out there and give them television time for no good reason other than for everyone to make fun of them. I usually really get into AI when they quit doing the prelims, but that's just me. I feel like the other is just a waste of my time.
On the other hand, I've recently become a Biggest Loser fan. I love to see the total transformation of people who find the way to lose all that weight and make it a goal of sticking to it (at least for a time). That's truly amazing to me!
You didn't mention how much experience you have
If you are relatively new to the field (1-2 years' experience), you may be offered $1.00 to $1.25 per report. 2-5 years' experience, possibly up to $1.50. And obviously on up from there with more experience.
My pet peeve is that some nationals pay the same for plain chest x-rays as they do for CTs and MRIs. They say it evens out but it sure doesn't seem that way. Personally I think getting paid by the line is more equitable.
I didn't mention his gender in my post at all
as you so eloquently put, the fact he does not communicate with his patients.
Being an animal doctor hardly qualifies any person or any gender to run a government health program for any person of any gender.
Being smart and trustworthy are only part of what it takes to run such an agency. Maybe a little experience?
I agree, although I too didn't see any mention of the 17 cpl in the posting.
I think it was a "teaser." The MTSO may offer 17 cpl at some point, but it certainly isn't clearly stated at what point or with what experience. Most of us already do very difficult ESLs for half that rate.
I personally have had much better experiences with small MTSOs than large nationals.
didn't mention boys or girls - but what about Dorothy, scarecrow, tin man and the lion from SM
Wizard of Oz. I
No, actually they don't. You guys run on emotion, not fact. And when fact is presented,
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There are several lawsuits
against MQ. Has to do with financial issues. They were under federal investigation and kicked off the stock exchange. This happened about a year or so ago. A hospital in Florida has a suite against them regarding financial issues. It has to do with their way of counting lines, and hospital claims they were cheated out of millions. This was all big news a year or so ago.
I have worked part time for MQ for almost 2 years and I am also happy. I think it is possible they may get bought out at some point, depending on how the lawsuits go. Every so often someone posts here and its like mass hysteria and panic, but nothing ever happens. This is old news to most of us.
MQ-6 lawsuits
are there not 6 lawsuits against MQ?? are they all still pending??? i thought there was the lawsuit brought by the MT's, then 2 by hospitals, one by the woman who lost her job because she brought up the issue of sending medical records offshore, one form the state of MA and i thought another one
has any of these been settled?????
Upbeat the lawsuits for MQ please.
Thanks.
Upbeat the fact MQ was guilty enough to be delisted from trading on the stock market please.
Thanks.
Upbeat the fact that while MQ pays us, w/o us MQ would not be paid.
Thanks.
NOW, upbeat the fact that you can be boorish to other posters and lots of people don't like your attitude, upbeat that it may be.
Thanks.
Now comment on MQ business practices.
Thanks.
lawsuits have not affected my job
and probably never will. Lawsuits do not impune guilt any more than your comments do. Being delisted had nothing to do with guilt, but lack of certain paperwork being filed in a timely fashion, which also has a logical explanation, not that you care. Their billing problems are small in comparison to the company as a whole. Their business practices are great. How many other companies have people begging their jobs back? How many have employees for 10-15 yr or more? Maybe happy MQ'ers irritate you, but there are a lot more of us!!
yes its that one, it also says many lawsuits are pending
Is no one alarmed by this??
I see thru that big ole elephant and around it as do the people involved in lawsuits and SEC.
Very upbeat about MQ being FORCED to comply by law enforcement.
Don't you worry about all the lawsuits for downloading music?
My kids love to download, but once the law suits started against the computer owners I cut it out completely. I know they love music, I do myself, so share with me please, don't you worry about getting "caught?"
I am part of three class action lawsuits.
Franklin-Templeton mutual fund apparently committed fraud while I was invested with them, Fen-Phen (the doctor's office notified me; sheduled me for a carotid ultrasound and had me come to a Radisson Hotel to meet with the attorneys) and MQ which I never really heard from but read about and this fraud took place while I worked there...
Bottom line is people should really not be getting money out of other peoples' pockets by fraudulent means.
Personally, I think lawsuits only give lawyers more money
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where there is smoke there is fire and these lawsuits are pretty much backed up by SEC.
Fraudulent billing, books that are cooked, are not claims that are made frivilously and are not accepted into a court of law without some merit. Watch and see. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it may be a duck. Apply that to everyone who deals with MQ involved in a lawsuit against them, MTs, Shareholders and Clients. Plus the delisting by SEC. Mighty suspicious huh? Not just one person or entity but three different ones - PLUS SEC.
Well of course we know that now. Back then we didn't because he didn't allow unfettered access.
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right we children didn't tattle to the administrator did we. BTW, didn't you think we were &#
because some half-witted idiot said everyone was jealous because some other anonymous poster said they were going to be a doctor. Didn't they call it doctor envy. Oh yeah, that was all about you wasn't it busy-body MT. You with your degree and premed but yet you still post here and acuse others of jealously. I dunno but you and dano seem so close, I can't put my finger on it but I would say you could be computer clones. Jealous indeed. Children indeed. I think you are blowing your covers) dano and busy body MT. This whole "jealously" thing makes me think that you may be one and the same poster.
I didn't go into labor until 2.5 weeks later, so it didn't work. Sorry!...nm
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sorry I didn't have time to thank you, but I didn't forget!!
Didn't you tell me?!?!? No, Liza, you didn't tell me. Hooray for you! lol
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not just the fact of being PT, but sm
she claims to work two jobs! Who has that much time. I don't believe it's physically possible to work that much, but that's just IMHO, of course! 
I don't do it all day either - in fact,
I worked around parts of Louisiana in hospitals as a Transcriptionist in the past! Now I come to NOLA to vacation. I'll be there for a few days in September and then again in October and then again maybe in November.
IT IS A FACT
The DocQmanage program has a page where the managers can select or deselect anything they want to be counted, i.e. spaces, letters, numbers, headers, footers, (a whole page full of things). BUT: The main thing is this - they can put whatever number they want in there as a DIVISOR to divide the number of characters by; and the characters are almost always not counted correctly because they have selected to "not count" spaces, headers, footers, numbers, etc, etc. THEY ARE CROOKS.
Its a fact - CM
Hi CM - can you e-mail me? thanks.
IT IS A FACT
They did not tell us this, as far as the F9. I just checked it and you are absolutely right. They told us where we could find our line count. What a bunch of BS. Do you happen to know if every company has their own "computations" to reduce line counts? How sad this is :<
Oh, I'm with you there. In fact, I
if anyone ever feels like just giving up on EVERYBODY in their live and walking away and starting a new life with a clean slate? All my kids have already left home or are close to leaving home age. One is doing horribly in school and won't put any effort into it. One was a bitch on wheels this morning and is in trouble for underage drinking. One is doing better than the other 2 but just informed me it's going to take 2 more years to get through college (she's a junior now) and we can't afford another year. And DH wet the bed last night and I am just beside myself. The only time he has ever done that is when he was drinking. He swears he hasn't been drinking (he's an alcoholic). Yah right. I feel like I am the only one who halfway has it together.
And financially - let's not even go there.
I feel like taking the cat and driving off into the sunset and never coming back.
They are asking how you know this for a fact?
It was a big stink on another board some time ago about how people claim to know things FOR A FACT.
Yes, and let's not get into the fact that most sm
daycares all over the country are "state regulated" not state-run, but receive millions of dollars a year from moms and dads who get their childcare paid for by the state (our tax dollars) so that they could work out of the home.
When people gripe about us moms who stay at home with our children they should be glad that we are working AND taking care of our children and not depending on the state or grandma to do it!!!
was the fact that she was gone even
Was an explanation given as to where she was and if she'd be back? I don't watch that show, all those women grate on my nerves, but I am curious as to know if they even broached the subject of the missing Star! (She's so tacky...tried to get her whole wedding for free, puhleeze...)!!!
no that's not a fact
I've been using AT&T CallVantage for about a year without a single problem. In fact, when I signed up I told the rep what I did and he said it was not a problem.
That was not me. In fact, I actually
and that is why I posted to the person who did that, letting that poster know that the original poster did not post twice. However, your message and placement of same sure did indicate that you were *speaking* to me.
do you know this for a fact?
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In fact, I may (sm)
email you when I get around to this, if you don't mind!
No, in fact
although I could originally connect to the VPN client, after a short while I could not. So I was disconnecting and reconnecting the router when I needed to do any work and now - for the red herring - I can't even use the wireless now. It doesn't recognize my modem.
As a matter of fact just today - I had been too busy to fool with it - I tried to get in touch with a really good tech support networking guy I used to know who knows transcriptionists. I am waiting for him to call me back. Hopefully I can bring him in to solve this mess. I will update you. I will say that other poster was right about the Belkin being about a thousand times easier to hook up than the Linksys, you wouldn't think there would be that much of a difference but it was so much simpler.
The fact is ...
no one even knows who we are, so it must be our own insecurities that allow us to be upset by those critical people.
I guess on top of that though, it is simply frustrating and hurtful that others want to lash out about such nonsense. The truth is, those people are probably upset about something in their own lives. It would be better for all of us (especially them) if they would look within a little bit more.
We'd all be better off if we spread a little more sunshine.
this is not FACT
actually this is opinion based about them being bad employers... they did a WHOLE story on it... wal mart is not as bad as some think from the gossipy rumors!
Did anyone ever think about the fact sm
that if a huge outcry is put up about medical records being transmitted electronically, that just might put an end to the capability of working from home? Many of us work out of the comfort and convernience of our homes and, of course, since we also transmit those records electronically, how would that affect us?
not to mention
Wages are going down and difficult dictators on the rise, bad quality on the rise. Does anyone know of any other profession where the starting pay is as exactly as it was 10 years ago, maybe less? I started out at 7 cpl and they are STILL offering that as starting pay today!! Doing this 10+ years and every report that comes up is worse than the last. Fight hand fatigue and pain as well. Its very depressing, this business.
Not to mention
Destruction of the barrier islands that could have reduced the damage, the poorly maintained levies and all the national gaurd troops die for lies in Iraq instead of providing services to the States.
I should also mention...
that I didn't think women called OTHER WOMEN that! WOW 
Please, please, mention this..
when you set up your appointment next week. I feel your fear and I cried a bit for you as I was praying. Take care. Let us know what happens.
not to mention--sm
being wery wewiabow, too. jeez.
why not mention it?
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not to mention...
that what a person prefers to speak at home or with family/friends is completely different than what language someone should be speaking PROFESSIONALLY! I'll speak Korean all day long at home but once I start working or leave the house, it's English only. I hate it when people come to this country them demand that signs be put up in THIER language (HEAR ME MIAMI???) or that we accomodate them because they're just to darn lazy to learn the national language and use it properly. In my mind, it's a lack of respect for the USA. Believe me...you can't go to Germany and then expect them to accomodate you because you can't speak German. They expect outsiders to learn their langauge and if they have any in English, it's a gesture of courtesy and not because they feel like they should.
What you did not mention, however, is that
she is NOT following the client's specific instructions.
Should also mention - sm
My musical preferences tend to change depending on my mood.
Today my mood is rockin. I am listening to Beck, Emigrate, Alice Cooper, The Fashion, Bangkok Five, Ride The Boogie, AM Radio, Bryan Adams, Poststardom Depression, Brad Sucks, Fischerspooner, Northern Mississippi Allstars, Cowboy Mouth, the list goes on ... quite a mix.
Whatever keeps me groovin right?
Should probably mention . . .
I have only ever had 2 jobs as an MT. First job was with a local hospital for almost 5 years, and now I have only been working for an MTSO for 9+ months, so haven't quite gotten comfortable yet.
You don't mention where he's from
but maybe it's a place where bargaining and haggling for everything is expected. He may figure that your 'final offer' may be a whole lot lower than what he's been paying. You already proved that by reducing your price to 9 cents, and now he doesn't believe you're worth even that. You gave him a 10% discount, now he wants 50%. Soon you'd be paying HIM for the privilege of working for him.
I also would have charged him some kind of accounting fee for the time it took me to recaluclate the line count for billing. What? You should work for free to do this? If he did not understand that 65 characters equal a line, no matter on which line they appear, then he is definitely not bright enough to be a doctor. I think he was just yanking your chain on this so see how much he could get away with.
I'd let him leave and go with the new company. When the honeymoon is over, their ESL MTs can't understand his ESL dictation and they don't meet TAT and their quality is crummy maybe he'll be willing to pay the 10 cents. At that point, if he contacted me to take over again, I'd ask for 12 and settle for 11.... maybe.
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