I work for a company in NY and they had to do this a few years ago. I think sm
Posted By: AnonEMiss on 2006-07-09
In Reply to: No More Independent Contractors - babe
that most will need to do this as the IRS does not think that MTs are eligible to be ICs.
The company that I work for had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines because of it all.
For insurance, for professional liability insurance, I was told that you have to be incorporated. I don't have a problem with this. If I hired someone to build an addition for me, I would want him/her to have insurance. Why should medical records be any different?
I actually make more as an employee. I still take my deductions as unreimbursed employee expenses (per my CPA), take home office expense and do not have to pay the 7+ % for SS match that the employer usually does.
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Well in my company, nobody's work was checked for many years~!
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MT: 24 years. Same company: 11 years same co. after buyout.
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You don't want to work for this company. Call your current company and
tell them that you have decided against the new position and tell them that you would like to stay. It is cheaper for them to let you stay than to train someone new. A company who could be so tacky as the one you just spoke of is one you do not want to work for. You can rescind your resignation. If you are a good MT, they will be glad you did.
All I know is it caused the company I work for to be unable to do all work due today and the rest
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22 years, same company 10 years nm
nm
I had been with a company for 5 years and
asked for a raise. Well, they said we have to audit you and we will see. I said okay (been doin the SAME doctor for years with a QA of 100%). They come back with "im sorry we are going to have to decrease your pay and put you on probation you only scored 92%. Really on the same ones i recieve 100%? I quit!! OH and if you want to know which company RIU.
14 years was not enough for her company!!!
Wow - I wonder what they ARE looking for! ha ha
18 years, 14 with one company
nm
16+ years, 14 with same company
And about to change.....but soooo scared to do it !!!
i used to work for a company that divided the work types up and i loved it. sm
there were only 4 of us working a major teaching hospital. someone was assigned surgery, different assigned discharges, different admits, etc. we all had the backup work type in case the original assignee wasn't available and were cross trained. it made us much more efficient, ability to get used to dictators, set macros, and in the long run we were all much happier.
The company I work for said cable phone wouldn't work, just FYI.
nm
13 cpl, 26 years exp, also not telling name of company.. nm
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I have been at the same company for 6 years, prior to this job
was at the same company for 8 years. I left company #1 because they lost the account to MQ and the company only had clinic work after that and I do acute care and didn't want to do clinic. While searching for another job I tested and was offered positions by 6 companies. I took PT positions with 3 of them. I had been using a C-phone with a small local and really had no clue about other companies. One job I kept for 1 year until they got rid of my account because they were such a pain. I quit one after 4 months.
I know someone who had 7 jobs in 1 year and that was only about 8 months into the year. She was a CMT and wanted the whole world to know it and treat her special, but the quality of her work was very poor. I don't know if she voluntarily left all those positions or was let go. When I was testing I was trying to get a feel for what was out there and thinking that company #2 might offer me better than what company #1 was paying. While this wasn't that long ago, it was when you could still get a decent line rate and I never heard of offshoring.
No, and I've been with the company 3 years. sm
If you're having problems e-mail me and maybe I can make some suggestions.
Well, with 8 years at the same company I was up to 11 and some change.
I always thought it was a terrible wage.
12 cpl, 24 years experience. I am not giving name of company.
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Maybe your company wants it that way? I've used it for years and Never had it check
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Average pay to start with a company after being an MT for 5+ years FT?
I am new to the job marked (have worked on my own for 5 years) and am looking at some of the MT positions. Can anyone tell me (I realize all places pay differently) on an average your best guess at what a decent 65 character line rate would be to start? I had been offered 7.5 cents at one place and I thought that was pretty low. Would appreciate any opinions. Thank you!
I make 0.725 cents per line after 5 years with the same company - nm
I make 0.725 cents per line after 5 years with the same company - NM 
I've worked weekends for 10 years, now I want to move onto a company
that does not require at least one weekend day. I realize hospitals are open 24/7 but you would think that companies seeking good MTs would be more willing to offer a M-F shift.
I've never come close to earning $20 in years of doing this. Troubles with every company, usually
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I don't work for MQ but that happened to me once at the company where I work and
my next two paychecks were shorted out of what they had overpaid me for that pay period. I hope they don't take it out of your hide. It was hard to budget for that month!
Company I work for has to pay fines for work out of TAT.
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I work as an IC, work when I want, but I still let the company know if I am going to be unavailable
for any length of time, even though I don't have to.
Ten years ago work was being
I find this nothing new. It is just accelerating. I wouldn't recommend this field to anybody new, unless they are ready to eventually find something different.
Remember back in the 60s and 70s, the steel industry was oursourced to Japan. Now I think it is going to China. It never came back. Everything is being outsourced. We are losing (or have almost lost) our manufacturing industry. The jobs go to where they can pay a few dollars a day and get away with it, they don't have to pay taxes, no environmental protection, no worker rights, unemployment, social security, etc.
I don't know what will happen with this country if this trend continues. I hear politicians say the answer to outsourcing is Americans should go to college and get degrees and become doctors, lawyers, etc. These jobs are also being outsourced. They already are reading our x-rays in India by outsourced radiologists. Now I hear an insurance company is encouraging their customers to go to a foreign company for surgery. Go by a pair of pants. They are all made in China, it seems everything is.
This is those "fair" trade agreements our government has made. And don't blame just the Republicans and Bush, this started back with Cliniton. The Democrats and Republicans are equally guilty. I don't know what the answer is. The world is changing and that is a fact of life. My strategy is to just try and make sure my family is provided for.
What company do you work for? Maybe some of
nm
work for a company
When work is low at my company I have
volunteered several times to just work half a day, or take the day off so that another MT who needs the lines more than I do can have the opportunity to at least get in a full day of work.
I don't often have a day where I can't get all my lines in though and there are usually lots of days where I could type 24/7. My work is assigned to me and I have no idea what any MTs workload may be on any given day. Most of the time I work extra if the workload warrants it, but there are days too that work may be slow at the beginning of my shift and I'm just not able to work more later in the day to make up the lines. I'm not complaing about not getting work, but I also don't believe that I need to fit my life and family around my work on a regular basis. I believe that when an MT is hired FT and the company has expectations of how many lines a day they want the MT to produce, then it is reasonable for the MT to expect work. I know the business is feast or famine, but if an MT who if FT and wants to work is consistently not getting enough work during their scheduled shift then there is a problem.
I'm very good at what I do, but I work to live, not live to work, and I don't remember signing anything that said I agreed that my life/family came second to MTing.
Any company that has work right
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we must work for the same company
The little scale at the top of the page actually calculates total lines, but we do it separately I believe because of keeping track of what each MT does on the log. I keep the log up and type it in as I go and don't fool with writing it down.
Who is the best company to work for?
Can someone please tell me someone you work and are happy. I have 8 years' experience in multi-specialty clinic and acute care (except op notes) and want somewhere with good pay and steady work. I'm tired of bouncing from company to company after they lose your account and don't have enough work to keep you busy. HELP! I am so frustrated with this field. When things are going good, I can do 2000 lines a day and be happy, but then every 6 months or so things go bad with that company and its a few months of transition after things fall apart. I'm about to lose my mind. Thanks in advance for the suggestions.
RE: Who is the best company to work for?
Transcend.
company while i work
 My baby, Simon, (lhasa-poo), loves to lay right up against my foot while I work. You are right - makes me love working at home! What a blessing.
Best company(ies) to work for?sm
I know this subject has probably been posted b4, but I could use some good advice. It's time for me to move on and I am looking around and would appreciate any advice on who is good to work for. I have considerable experience.
Wonder if we work for the same company?
Your story sounds very much like mine. I would be digging out all the garbage docs every day on my secondary while my primary had plenty of work. I was also made to feel *special* because not every MT can do the harder accounts. I want to start pretending that I can only do the easy docs and let someone else do the harder ones. I leave my office pretty frustrated and wiped out at the end of my day now doing nearly all the really tough accounts. How is this fair? Either pay them less if they cannot do them or pay me more!
Anyone work as an IC for more than 1 company?
I'm wondering how this would work out. I am an IC for a company, but don't have enough work in my specialty. I'm not as productive, obviously, when doing a different specialty and am losing money when picking up the left-over work.
Are there others out there who do specialty work as an IC for 2 or more companies? Of even do work for a company and also pick up your own accounts that are not through a company? How has it worked out for you? Do MTSOs usually dislike this or are they generally okay with it. I just don't see myself being able to make a living if I have to keep switching gears when there are no jobs for my specialty.
Thank you for any replies/insight.
11.5 cpl and work for a company.
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The company I work for does not allow sm
you to download their platform onto another computer. They supply the equipment, and if I want to travel, I have to take their CPU with me.
I work as an IC for a company and get
nm
You must be new with the company you work for, right?
Just wait until you start getting the *real stuff* after the break-in period.
The company I work for
docks you $1 per blank after a certain amount, but I have the same dictators all the time and that didn't start until after the usual training period. It has never made a real big difference in pay. You get used to your dictators and normally don't have more than that certain amount of blanks that are allowed before deduction.
If you work for a company you
and it depends on how many hours you put in to get 400 lines. If you have to do it in 2 hours, it will take you longer to reach that 400 lines than if you have 4 hours or so, especially if you have been out for a while. Once you are working and getting used to it again, you will have no trouble meeting those 400 lines in a few hours, or even less.
i bet we work for same company...
it's all verbatim, which is tempered by style rules and common sense.
When "verbatim" is done that way, there's no problem.
Does anyone work for a company-sm
that pays for reports that have been typed and then the doctors decides not to use it? I just did a 13.41 minute report and did not see it in my line count so I went into another program to look it up. It is in the 'deleted' folder. I hate this.
My sup's response is "We give you 28 lines for every addendum report or dictated change so it all evens out". BALONEY!!!! If a doc dictates "go back to Joe Blow's report and add/take out we are to get 28 lines to type this and put in Q/A and they will correct the report. Same thing if an addendum to a job needs to be done. I have had none of these jobs for weeks so not getting paid for the 13.41 job does not even out for me.
How does your company handle these types of deleted jobs?
I would never work for a company that did that.
We would all like to have 100% QA but no one is perfect. Who is to say that it looks perfect to us, but the client decides, they do not like the way we put in our commas. Would I want my pay cut on that basis? NO WAY. I'd move on..JMO
What company do you work for?
I was hoping to get in on the VR escription $$$$$ I have been hearing so much about but now I am starting to wonder if it is for me. Any tips to share about VR escription work that might help me out? Thanks
No IC here. I work for a company
When starting I gave my ideal schedule and they gave it to me without question. Then I had to request numerous Friday evenings off for childcare issues and when it posed a problem I asked for a schedule change of Friday evenings over to Sunday evenings and they agreed.
Maybe you need to work for a different company?
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I'd wonder what company is doing the work now. SM
Fixing those is why the EditScript portion comes to the MTSOs at all. When I was working in EditScript the work was being siphoned away from workers at my MTSO to ones offshore without any explanation to us, only evasions in response to our questions, until a week or two before the last big chunk of it was to disappear, and then we were told.
The company I work
for is Zylomed and three years ago, they paid me 10 cents per line...I have been working for them for about 6 years now...and you are right about the fact that we with many years of experience should not be so quick to accept a job for lower than 9 or 10 cents a line for these on line companies...that's crazy. The doctors around here that are local..small offices, pay 12 cents per line...I have friends who type for docs making this much money....so I think that we need to make a board like the online companies have about what they want, and kind of turn the tables a little bit, and make a board of Transcriptionist stating what their guidlines are and what they are looking for in a company and our pay rate and see how many offers WE get. It's just a thought, but I think it might work. Who knows It never hurts to try.
not at the company I work for
Our initials may not be on the report, letter, etc., but we all have specific accounts we're responsible for, same as our MTs, so if there's a problem that makes it through to the patient chart for whatever reason, the Editor assigned to that account gets the blame because it's our job to make sure that doesn't happen.
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