I would like to get on with the hospital or possibly the company who handles their transcription.

• How do I find out if a local hospital's transcription is done in-house or not? - Hospital Transcription
  • You could try your State Boards board at this site ... - Misha
  • Call the MR department at the hospital and ask sm - got the job
  • Letter/resume - Patti
  • Try to talk to someone within MR Dept. - MT20+
  • Your best bet is probably to ask somebody inside the hospital. - IN-house
    • I would like to get on with the hospital or possibly the company who handles their transcription. - Hospital Transcription
      • Just curious. What does your hubby do? He might be able to find out - In-house

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Those companies that say IC status and then define a shift and/or days are clearly asking for employees but not wanting to pay the benefits, taxes, etc., and they are pretty clearly breaking the law - at least the way I interpret the law.

I work for a company and am an IC - a true IC.  The only thing they ask is for me to tell them how many lines I think I am going to type on any given day.  They ask for that a month ahead of time, but it's completely up to me as to how many lines I want to or can type and then I can do them in my own time frame.

A lot of it falls on the shoulders of the MTs, unfortunately.  If a company is hiring someone IC status, but then defines days and shifts to be worked and the MT accepts that, we are propagating that method of hiring and telling the MTSOs that we are willing to do that.

A customer of mine called me the other day to let me know about a diagnostic imaging opening at a hospital and she told me the benefits are around 300.00 for child and spouse added.  I would rather pay something like that than to have to put up with this woman.  The pay starts out for bottom line 10.06 an hour, maxing out at 15.09 an hour.  I am really thinking about getting into coding too. 

Thank you all again for listening to me. 

Paulette

I work for a very small rural hospital with only two full-time transcriptionists and one part-time transcriptionist.  We have recently been told that the administration of our hospital is entertaining the idea of on-call Transcriptionist for uncovered hours.  We already work alternating Saturdays (day shift only).  I wanted to know if any other hospitals out there do on-call transcription (Not from home and not outsourced).  They want us to physically drive in and be in the office to do this transcription.  Any information at all would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks. 

in about two months.  I lost my computer and reference books in a house fire and can't afford to replace the computer until I get my tax refund back or until my homeowners insurance co. gets their act together which ever comes first! 

This is the second time I've lost an in-house hospital transcription job to outsourcing and have decided if you can't beat 'em, join 'em and so I want to go back to working at home.  What are the best companies to work for that provide equipment and are fair regarding line counts (i.e. count spaces and don't short MT's on lines) and have balanced accounts (accounts that have a fair ESL to EFL dictator ratio) to work on?

I have 13 years experience as an MT and I am desparately looking for a company to call home for as long as they will have me!  I worked at home for a couple of years, but never could find that perfect fit.  My new year's resolution is find a job I love working from home, and forget all about last year!

Thanks!

 Does anyone know of an honest transcription firm.  Looking for names.

Also, is it a large teaching hospital? If so you have to consider there will be A LOT of different residents dictating, usually a lot of ESLs at teaching hospitals, and the residents rotate out and new ones rotate in every summer. So you can't expect to get the same dictators and build up your macros because the dictators change all the time.

I would say 9 cpl would be a pretty good offer for a small to medium community hospital where you will be doing the same dictators on a daily basis.  But for bigger, urban or teaching hospitals I would want at least 12 to 15 cpl. 

tia

facilities.  I knew that, but had never encountered anyone who works with it in the real world who doesn't not work for the specific company that developed it.  They keep us pretty much in the dark about that stuff.

anyway, when the platform is working well, it is not impossible to make over 300 lph.  350 would be rare, and depend a lot on formatting, what you are paid for and what you are not paid for.

I've just had the worst and the most unproductive working day of my life.  After several days of not a heck of a lot of work, I sat down today hoping to make up some lines.  So my internet wigs out on me.  Cable guy comes, fixes problem, I'm back in business.  About 3 ridiculous family emergencies later (loads of sarcasm here), my phone goes on the charger and I ignore the constant ringing for 2 hours.  Since I work at home, everyone thinks I've got loads of time to chat. 

My SIL was kind enough to take my boys to the pool today.  I was so happy to know that I would have 4 hours of peace and quiet to be able to transcribe.  But since my internet was not working from right after they left until the moment they returned, that didn't happen.  My son comes home from the pool with bleeding and raw feet (Athlete's foot) that I have had no success at treating with the Tinactin the doctor told me to use.  So, I A&D his feet, put some socks on, back to work.  Then my youngest dumps a box of Cheezit crackers on the floor and decides he will walk on them until they are very finely crushed.  After an hour in the kitchen, I'm back to work.  Not for long though.  Older son decides he wants a bowl of coco krispies.  They also end up on the floor, scattered from one end to the other.  Then big brother decides to use his younger brother as his sketch board.  So I spend about 20 minutes trying to get pen off my little one's face. 

Please somebody, tell me I am not the only one with these problems.  I'm beginning to think the only time I will be able to work and actually accomplish something this summer will be if I work when my little monsters are sleeping, which means no sleep for me.