If you work for a national, what difference does it make where you live?
Posted By: mt on 2009-06-01
In Reply to: wages - Pearl
If you work locally, then yes I think it makes a difference. I work for a national, live in the boondocks and still do well.
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I work at MQ, live in MI and make less than 10.5 cpl.
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Where you live makes a difference here also
I have a new home, true enough and if I had bought in California I probably would have paid more than a half million for it but don’t live there. I have a brand new vehicle and do each year and a higher priced one. I am going on 3 vacations this year, 1 to Canada. I have savings and we have not been hit as bad as other people. If I did not have money, as in the past, then I increased my work load. I am hardly settling. Not all my money comes from the 8 cpl, heck I do VR and that is only 4 cpl.
(1) Don't work for a national. (2) Don't work for a national. (3) Don't work for a nation
If you still want to stay in MTing, which is a dying job, go to a hospital and apply to do radiology. They sometimes hire people just out of transcription schools.
But don't work at home thinking you will make any money at all - even with 20 years of experience - the nationals have wrecked that.
Be under the umbrella of protection at a hospital. That way when your computer breaks, the weather is bad, you are sick, there is no work - you will not be without a paycheck.
The nationals are selling a line of BULL. Gradually they have taken what used to be our built-it benefits------------> and moved it over to their pockets and called it their PROFIT. They are not brilliant - but they are unethical thieves.
From what I can tell, it really won't make a difference
This is a unique situation where, because of the water and hence isolation of individuals, they can't even GET supplies to the needy.
FEMA seems to have the tangible resources but no form of transport.
Heck, people are being evacuated people from rooftops at a snail's pace.
Yeah, it would be nice to see some kind of gesture of help from other countries, but right now I think all that is humanly possible is being done. And seems like just a drop in the bucket.
Yes, it DOES make a difference;
tries, rather than a rude, obnoxious native doctor who burps, passes gas, and abruptly hangs up at the end without even an "end of dictation" Didn't these people listen to their mothers when they were told courtesy does count?! Acknowledgement of the human on the other end always appreciated. There, thank you, my rant for the day...feel much better.
Um, what difference does it make how
they are "classified"? Poor dictators come in all colors.
For example, there are plenty of lilly-white dictators who might as well be speaking a foreign language - shall we call them 'honky-speaking' dictators in order to re-classify them, too?
What difference does it make?
I have seen several on this board talking about this endlessly and I wonder why anyone else really cares about what others do in their work. There is always back and forth about what independents should work. Others here say they should not have certain hours to work, that makes them an employee, not an independent. Pray tell, what differences does it make to anyone except to the person working? If you are independent and you work whichever hours you work and another independent and they work certain hours only, why the big fuss? By an independent having their own set hours, does that somehow play into your normal everyday routine? I do not think so. Does your employer now tell you because others have set hours, you will have to do that also- I do not think so. If people are happy with their own job situation, why do others think they have to come here and bash them for their job ethics. I for one am tired of all the nonsense going back and forth. Leave it be. Give it a rest. Do your job and don’t worry about the next person.
Does that make a difference to you? nm
I get some really, really funny ones that make the difference.
This is usually my local stuff though and not my online stuff.
I have one that will say, "Good Morning whoever you are this morning and thank god it's finally Friday, Friday, FRIDAY!!!" When he gets to Vitals he'll say blood pressure like dracula. At the end he'll say, "and we are finally done for the day, thank you for typing this for me." Every time I get one of his tapes I say, "Oh GOODY!"
I have one that might have 10 whole patients on a tape who will start off by saying, "Prepare yourself, this was a long day." A tape that "long" usually takes me less than a half hour. Around Christmas the doc had patient named Virginia and said, "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."
My all time favorite is the one that caught me off guard on April Fool's day. He said, "The first patient is Peter Rose. Chief Complaint: "I have a gambling problem." Then he said, "April Fools! Sorry, I just had to do that."
On the flip side I get the Dr. Repeats who will say the same thing 5 times and do 60 lines on a a follow up note.
Seems as if just about everyone says thank you and/or have a nice day. Even the online people. I guess they must know I'm a nice person. 
Location does make a difference . . .
I should have mentioned that I am in a large metro area. But I do still think you deserve a raise ;).
Seriously, I just think that is awfully low for ANY area. I don't know how many lines you average per page, though.
Now, I have seen radiology paying in the range of $1-2 per page, but this was still not what the office was paying, but was what the Transcriptionist was being paid by the middle man.
One other thought that may seem to contradict my previous thoughts . . . you do not want to price yourself out of a job or have too much of an increase too quickly, depending, of course, on how important this account is to your livelihood, and any raise at all is better than none.
Good luck!
Why not? What difference doe it make if home
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Does the music make a difference?
Just curious if those of you who have music on see any difference in your production (or anything else) with it on. ? thx. :)
for this, I would use it - for sure, would make a difference to professor. NM
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It doesn't make any difference...
whether you are an IC or not, the work still needs to be done... and it needs to be done 24/7. There are plenty of companies who pay a decent shift differential, but that isn't the point either. You should not always expect to get more in order to do what your job requires. And you come here and post a rant about how you cannot find a good job... I think it is quite obvious why. You are not willing to be flexible.
Well then sign the petition and help make a difference!
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Write offs make a big difference. nt
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I had to make the exact same switch. You really won't notice any difference. nm
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how can it possibly make any difference if your check arrives on the 10th or the 15th
sheesh, you all are living literally paycheck-to-paycheck, that's for sure. Should be able to let your paycheck sit for a month without cashing it.
That's not allowed where I live. They will make you
stupid like that. Makes EVERYONE's property value go down.
I work for a national
and I have a ton of doctors (clinic and hospital). I type 1000 lines in 3 to 4 hours. I don't have a lot of normals. There are some but don't use them on a daily basis. I just put my nose to the grind stone and make myself sit there for a certain amount of reports before I let myself get up. It can be done.
do you work for a national?
Then why do you work for them if they are a bunch of crooks stealing from you? That is the only alternative to my theory, if they do not offer benefits, make you test even when you are seasoned, do not give raises, with no good reason other than they are greedy thieves? It doesn't make sense to me.
no. work for a national. nm
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Currently work for a national
and all I currently know about the ENT office is that they have some system in place currently in-office that the doctors dictate into using a phone. Their work is currently done in-house by 1 full-time MT who is retiring and 1 p.r.n. MT. I currently use high-speed (cable) internet but might possibly be soon moving to a location that would only have satellite for high-speed (or dial up).
When you take on too much work. Getting 2 PT job offers plus have FT with national (sm)
Two local doctors offering me 2-3 hours per day each, plus the FT (about 6 actual hours of typing a day) with a national.
One doctor is orthopedic, the other vascular surgeon (H&Ps in office). One is a mumbler, the other has a lisp. The national job is radiology (fairly easy - would be faster if I could master IT, though).
What should I do? Am afraid I will take on more than I can handle and at same time, refuse a job that I later will regret. I need the money, needless to say. Anyone ever face this?
Well, I work for a national, but my account
is a big hospital, doing acute work. It was a heck of a way to learn starting off, but I know it will benefit me in the long run, just one of those days!
Closing in on my 2 years now, I thought about maybe applying at a hospital inhouse here that hires starting out at $20, but once you add all the expenses (not counting any deductions), you come out to about the same. It's just not worth it. It would probably be less stress considering I would work set hours instead of all the crazy ones I have been doing, but then you have to add in at least 2 hours of drive time to that each day. It evens all out I suppose.
I average $32,000. I work for a National. nm
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also, I work for a national - not my own clients! nm
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There's the difference, right there. I work for an MTSO who LOVES sm
for us to make money because then SHE makes money. I have been on the same accounts for five years.
I can't understand why people get switched around like they do in other places (I've worked for EDiX and another small MTSO and they switched people like mad).
Has anyone asked for a raise lately? How do you go about it? Work for a national and have not
increase for five years. Just pumped some gas and realize my cost of living is going up but my pay is stagnant. How do you go about asking for a raise?
Don't work for a national. Find a small
MTSO that pays well. They are out there, as long as you hold up your end of the bargin. I left my hospital job to work for a national, several nationals now but who is counting. I found a small company and finally am making the $$$.
Good luck to you.
Why do you say $20/hr? I work for a national, and at 11 cpl, 300 lines per hour, sm
that's $33/hour. I'm not driving a Lexus or anything, but I'm comfortable. Generally speaking, find a mid-sized national, big enough to have enough work for you all of the time, yet small enough to care and realize that quality work deserves quality pay.
They are out there. Good luck!
Our hospital laid us all off and I went to work for the national that got the bid. nm
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Yes, midsize national. Low work. Overhiring. nm
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The national I work for has a no blank policy. sm
Plus you have to have 90% no blanks to QA to get bonuses and to maintain full-time status. This is very hard sometimes with some of the dictators that dictate from across the room, while the ward is going ape, and this all right next to the telemetry monitor and the ringing phone or at home with the yapping dogs in the background.
But I have found our QA to be forgiving and understanding, so I am getting more comfortable. I think they have a high standard so we will step higher, but they understand the reality, which I think is good.
DH says he definitely would not go through what I go through to be sure there are no blanks, but I am hoping that in time it will get easier, and I will get more productive, and I think it is.
I work for a national, and we're allowed
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Question: If you work for national that provides computer,
can you ask their Tech support to move their files onto the laptop computer?
One other question: If you are required to have HSI connection for dictation and files, do you have access to that and how?
I'll bet I work for the same national! While I have great dictators, seriously they never say the
same thinge twice, save one surgeon who always ends his op reports with the same paragraph, which, of course, I have in my expander. I mean it - there are probably 30 doctors, and I never ever get a repeat or any pattern at all! Again, I have a huge expander that I've set up on my own over the years, and rarely type more than a few words "longhand", but I still am not hitting over 200-250 lines an hour. Oh well! At least I have great dictators, right?
when you work for a national, you sign a confidentiality agreement...?
the same rules would apply, and you must have signed a confidentiality agreement with whomever you work for. you can be fired, if breached.
my opinion, as a professional, you transcribe it and mums the word...
when I worked in a hospital, someone was caught 'sharing' information about the CEO from a transcription report, and was fired on the spot.
Actually, it is quite easy to skip jobs, and I work for a national. sm
Depending upon the account, just press the appropriate number on the C-phone, and *poof* you're at the next job. In my case, I have no "proof" per se, but when jobs skip from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. then to 1 p.m., etc., and then it gets back to "normal" when you get to the non-ESL docs where I guess they stopped working. it's not too hard to figure out that someone took what they wanted and left the rest. It doesn't matter to me. As has been stated, the MT who cherrypicks cheats himself/herself out of the chance to master everything and assure himself/herself of a larger pool of work. That goes also for those who limit themselves to only certain work types. Sure, we all have our preferences (I prefer admit notes and consults), but if you can do everything, then you're more likely not to be one of the ones coming here complaining of no work.
Just my opinion, and you know we all have one. Happy Friday the 13th! I have the weekend off for once, and it is actually beautiful weather here. Yippee! 
I work for a national, $600 yearly deductible and 15-30 copay
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How do you do 2000 a day? Do you work for a national or small company? nm
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The one national that I am aware of, employees would be thrilled to work just 8 hours a day. They
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Can a national require full time MTs to work overtime?
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I don't work for one of the larger nationals, but a good-sized national and
in 5 years the hospital system has been down twice and my company wasn't able to pull work and the company's system was down once for a hurricane and once the power was out for part of a day. I never went a full day without work.
I think maybe some of the nationals are poorly managed and they use "server down" as an excuse for no work. For a company that depends on their servers for their livelihood I don't believe they actually have the much down time. I don't think most companies pay for downtime.
Oh, bull. I'm with a large national and those clients whose work is offshored
That one statement is bunk.
I work for a national. Most of the time the voices are pretty good, but
I have been getting some of late that have background noices, door slamming, people talking, Sometimes the doc will stop talking but the noices sound so close to him that it is annoying. Do you think the sound card would interfere with my company's computer? It sounds nice to have even though it does not help the background stuff. I guess that is a good question for tech. Thanks again!
I have 2 clinics still on tapes, love'em! Also work for a national. Like that too. nm
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The midsize national I work for has a nice tiered incentive plan sm
for employees, not sure about the ICs. In order not to qualify for one of the incentives, you'd have to transcribe at LESS than 150 LPH. Pretty easy to make bonus each pay period. The faster you are, the bigger the bonus. 
I didnt ask for ANYTHING. Merry Christmas and watch your back when u work for a national.
thats MY point.
Been at home for over a year now and I switched to night shift. I work for a national. Started out
working the night shift and sleeping in shifts during the day. My kids are way older but that doesn't mean they don't interrupt me. Besides, there the phone issue, more interruptions, the dogs bothered me a lot, too. Love them dearly but, oh so spoiled. It was taking me 10 hours to do what I can do in 8 on nights, plus I manage to get more sleep, if you can believe that. I still get supper on the table, vacuum, laundry, etc. So far it is working pretty good, so I think I will put in for permanent night hours for awhile. No sense in working 10 when I can work 8.
The national I work for usually offers jobs to the in-house people when they acquire an account. nm
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