OOPS - meant AHDI!

• AHDA and Indian Transcription - cj
  • Shipping Internationally does not cost that much. - Something wronghere
  • I'm not surprised at all! - starzzz
  • credentialing, schmredentialing - pee-owed
    • why so much cancer? - kyrie
  • YOU may not care WHERE your transcription - sm
    • not me saying those things - cj
      • I think she was replying to the person who - wrote to you about AHDI, not you.
  • interesting info - cj
  • One nerve left - and they're on it
  • What a steaming pile of manure! SM - RockinMT
    • I COMPLETELY AGREE! - Emily Ayn
  • Did you notice? - In all that doublespeak
    • I did and that's why I sent - cj
  • Association for Healthcare Documentation - in India
  • LOL Probably the company pays for it. What a racket they have going on. - mtstudent
    • Their attack on non-CMT's is a pretty good barometer - of how those shysters operate.
      • I meant PHONEY credentialling system! - Typo #473
    • Nice marketing too..a bogus statement about US MTs to discredit the competition nm - mtstudent
      • Take a screen shot of this: $150 in 2006 - mtstudent
        • I just paid $150 to take it in July 2008,,,in the states - AmphionFan
        • okay, I did (screen shot) and I sent it..... - cj
          • Always comes down to the bucks, they can sugarcoat but is the bucks! - WISE1
        • Link - mtstudent
  • OOPS - meant AHDI! - cj

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I started a thread below about the government stepping in and making the MTSO companies step up to the plate and conform to a standard form of counting lines for US based medical transcriptionists and to perhaps have a baseline pay so that MTs are not sitting all day long waiting on one more report to try to make a count that is making the MTSOs richer. While not everybody agreed with my points, let me say that there are probably far more MTs in this country who are not independent contractors and who are trying to support themselves than not. ICs would almost be classified as (mini) MTSOs. Not everybody has the luxury of negotiating what they will work for. That whole conversation is moot when we are talking about the industry as a whole. ADHI has spoken for years that they support standardization but when they were recently asked about "policing" the MTSOs methods of counting lines, they dropped the ball. This is just my opinion, but there definitely needs to be an accountability to the U.S. worker concerning this industry. While on one hand we are described as highly skilled workers with a wide base of knowledge, we are then described as home-based, bunny-slippered, pajama mamas.  It cannot be both ways. We are highly skilled and do have a wide base of knowledge and we need to band together. I do like the name United States Medical Transcription Association. Works for me. 

I am not sure it matters who is behind ADHI or their corporate sponsors. The reality is that the U.S. based MTs need to quit taking a knee jerk reaction to them. ADHI started small. Your comment about the displaced workers just proves my point that the government and the Dept of Labor do need to be involved in the restructuring of the MT Industry.  When a major MTSO company can initiate a program whereby it cuts the salaries of thousands of it's employees for its own gain, there is a problem there. In the area where I work, there was an article in the newspaper about the outsourcing of the radiology dept on weekends to Australia so that coverage was 24/7. This is a U.S. owned company who employs radiologists from Australia. I am betting those doctors over there do not make less than their counterparts over here. So, it is up to us, the MTs of the U.S. to start to organize in order to reinstate the true value of the work we are entrusted to perform day in and day out.

I have been reading the posts here for many months and I agree with everything said above regarding AHDI.  I resigned as treasurer of a student chapter after realizing they seemed to care more about foreign MTs than us here in the US.

Now all US transcriptionists have an option.  There is a new organization "American Transcription Association", ATA.  The mission of this organization is to bring to the forefront the situation here for out MTs and all the off shoring to India and elsewhere.  This organization will only accept US transcriptionists.

Check it out at www.ataus.org

Maybe we can make a difference!