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Correction to list below of Companies that do not off shore

Posted By: Unhappy MDI-MT, too on 2009-08-28
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Optiscript in State College,Pa DOES off shore. I was offered a job with them until I heard from a very reliable source that they even have offices out of the country. Stay away!


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Another list of MTSOs who DO NOT Off-Shore and

I probably have some of these wrong and still missed a ton of companies, so please feel free to correct the list. 


 


If I could not find a definite “U.S. Transcriptionists Only,” but did find “NO OFFSHORE APPLICANTS” I added it to the list.  They could still off-shore, and just not put that in their Job Ad or on their Website.  So, if any of the MTSOs below do off-shore, please correct. 


 


Some do use Canadian MTs, but I did  not think we were getting that picky. 


 


DO NOT OFF-SHORE


 


    AccuSTAT  Inc – Wisconsin


    AccuStat EMR  - South Carolina


    Advanced Medical Transcription LLC (AMT) – Kentucky


    Advantage Transcription Services – Ohio


    American Transcription Solutions  Inc (ATSI) – Florida


    Amphion Medical Solutions - Wisconsin


    Augusta Coding and Transcription  Inc (ACTI) – Georgia


    Axolotl - California


    Breitner Transcription Services, Inc. – Massachusetts


    Chase Transcriptions, Inc. – Ohio


    Chronicle Transcripts (CTI) - California


    CPR Technologies - California


    DTS (Digital Transcription Systems, Inc.) – Oklahoma


    Encompass Medical Transcription, Inc – Wisconsin


    eTransPlus  - Tennessee


    ExecuScribe, Inc. – New York


    E-Z Scribe Medical Transcription Service – California


    Fast Chart- (Division of Applied Medical Services) – North Carolina


    Freedom Type – Wisconsin


    FutureNet Technologies Corp – California


    GTN (Global Transcription Network) – Texas


    InScribe  LLC – Kentucky


    Keystrokes – Illinois


    MD-IT (Medical Documentation – Intuitive Technology)  - Colorado


    MedScribe Information Systems Inc -  Florida


    Med-Scribe Transcription Service  Inc – New Jersey


    Milner Transcription Services – Georgia


NetMed Transcription Service LLC - Michigan


    New England Medical Transcription (NEMT) -  Maine


    Opti-Script Inc – Pennsylvania


    Oracle Transcription  Inc   (OTI) - Maryland


    Probity Medical Transcription – Pennsylvania


    Professional Transcriptions Inc  (PTI)  - Florida


    ProScript Documentation Services – Florida


    Psychtrans Transcription Services - California


    Silent Type  Inc – New Jersey


    SoftScript  Inc  - California


    Southern Transcription Services (STS) – Georgia


    T-C Transcription  (Transcriptionists Recognize) – Florida


    The Transcription Doctors, Inc  (TTD) – California


    The Transcription House – Arizona


    Transcriptions South Inc (TSI) - Florida


    Transform Inc – Nevada


    Transolutions Inc – Illinois


    TransPortal  LLC – North Carolina


    TransTech Medical Solutions  (TT) – Texas


    TRX  Inc – Oregon


   TTS, LLC (Transcription, Technology, and Support) – New Hampshire


   U.S. Transcription, Inc.  (UST)  - Wisconsin 


   USA Medical Transcription Inc – Florida/Missouri


   WebMedX - Pennsylvania


   wordZXpressed Transcription Services   Inc  - Georgia


   ZNF Medical Transcription  Inc – Florida


   ZyloMed  Corp – Florida


 


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 Below are the MTSs I could find that DO Off-Shore, but again, I think this list may be missing a few companies also.  Please add on if you know of any more. 


 


Thanks. 


 


 


Acusis – Pennsylvania


CBay – Pennsylvania


Diskriter – Pennsylvania


DTS America, Inc (Dedication, Technology, Service) - Tennessee


Focus – Massachusetts


MedQuist – New Jersey


Medware Inc – Florida


OSI Transcription  (Outsourcing Solutions Inc) – Florida/Georgia


Precyse Solutions – Pennsylvania/Georgia


Spheris  - Tennessee


SPi Healthcare - Tennessee


Sten-Tel Transcription  Inc – Massachusetts


Superior Global Solutions – Texas


Transcend – Georgia


 


 


Heartland Information Services – Ohio (TOLEDO, Ohio -- Heartland Information Services has merged with Spryance, Inc., forming one of the premier offshore transcription providers in the United States. November 2006)


 


Can someone list all the MT companies that exist?
I've tried to find a complete listing of every MT company that exists, but no luck. Can anyone here provide me with that or at least tell me where to get it? Thanks
Can you help with a list of companies that do pay downtime?
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I have 2 companies on my list to apply to if
MQ sinks and Medware is one of them! Thanks for the info!
List of companies using ExText? sm
Can anyone give me a list of companies that use ExText? Looking for part-time position and IC or employee; specialize in OPs, 10+ yrs experience.  Thanks in advance!
Go to this link for list of companies
http://forum.mtstars.com/medical_transcription/v/3/8564.html
where you will find 2 more links regarding companies that hire new grads.
Maybe list the bad companies instead of the good
I don't really blame the person that has the great job for not wanting to post it on the board. I had a great job at one time and they lost their big accounts and I lost the job. Now I got a good job, but the pay isn't much unfortunately, but the work is good and steady.

Maybe people rather wouldn't mind listing the names of companies they worked for and got burned or hated the job for whatever reasons.

If there are any good companies they are few and far between unfortunately. I was making more per line 10 to 20 years ago than now. Our rates have not increased. The only difference is we are on computers now instead of typewriters. I don't think any of these companies care about us as people. We are just money makers for them. That's their bottom line. I'd love to know how much they are getting per line from the hospitals. Probably 16 cents a line and we are getting 8. It really stinks. The only way to make more is to work more and more. And then when you work like 8 hours overtime and see your check it really is disgusting how little it added up to. At least in the days where we were employees at hospitals our overtime pay would be so great that it made it worth it.
Is there a list of companies that DON'T OFFSHORE?

If not, can we list them here?  I'm tired of getting laid off or not having enough work from companies who're sending work to India. 


 


If you know of a company that doesn't offshore, it would also be nice if you could say whether or not they require VR.


 


Thanks in advance to anyone who participates -- we're all in this together!   


Would like to know list of companies that use Webtop please?
Anyone know of companies that use the program, Webtop?  Thanks!
Here is a list of companies that offshore ... FYI

See study overview table from 2008 MTSO study:

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What is sad is that you'll get a longer list of companies
People with skill and experience are too costly to most large MTSOs.  Quantity is more important than quality because, after all, it's cheaper to hire a couple skilled professionals to clean up the mess of the larger group of unexperienced/unskilled MTs that they can hire for a lot less. 
List of companies that use Dictaphone platform??
I like working on the Dictaphone platform and would like to find a company that uses this platform.. preferably with low ESL.  Tried a company that had Dictaphone but the ESL was so bad I could not get a good line count.
And a lot of the lists are made up of companies that pay to be on the list. sm
I think your best bet is to either go with someone who is well known or go with a small company if you know someone who works there.
Can anyone share a compiled list of companies

And a second list of companies USA only? This would be a great reference tool for those of us who have made a personal choice to only work for USA firms.  I thought about compiling a list, but am afraid it would not be all-inclusive, and I know that some of you out there are very knowledgeable and have done much research.


Also on the American ones, perhaps if you know they cheat on line counts, pay, give the run around, that would help too.  I could probably help with that but again it would not be all inclusive.


Maybe we can get a few posts together and share notes.  I think that this kind of list of all of our experiences (collectively would be a great reference tool), and perhaps it could be saved here somewhere, maybe earmarked for future reference so people would not have to constantly search through archives.  Why reinvent the wheel over and over again if we could have all this info in 1 place.


I think that if we work all collectively, we can improve our working conditions, because MTSOs on that list will be held accountable at least by the amount of people who read this board and support the ideas which seem to come up often here, namely, keep it in the USA, keep wages fair, treat the remote MT/QA professionally, etc.


When gas prices went through the roof the American public cut back and you see now, gas prices are going down. This should be an example to us that if we all work together throughout the country, changes must be made by those who are cheating the MT.  By us having this information, and keeping it here, then people can have a great list to keep in their back pocket, and finally companies will be held accountable. 


I will be willing to put some into the list, but I don't know it all so I need help.  Will wait for feedback first. Thanks in advance for listening to my idea.


OP asked for a list of companies that DO offshore (sm)
Inside the post she asked to start a second list of companies who keep work here in the USA.  I understood the post, and was merely listing Keystrokes as someone who does NOT offshore to go on the second list of companies that keeps work here.  KS does NOT offshore and they never will.
Here is a compiled list of Indian MT companies
http://mtherald.com/medical-transcription-companies-in-india-a-detailed-list/

Checkout this list. You've two more such lists on that blog, totaling three.

One thing you need to know with the Indian companies is that the rates are low and you cannot earn as much as you can in the US.
Please form a list of nonVR companies

It would be great to have all in 1 place companies which do not have VR (and they usually are all USA too).  I can only come up with 2 to start, but please add to the list.  This would certainly help out those who do not wish to take the leap at this time into that kind of technology.  Thanks for adding to the list.


1.  Keystrokes.  Very little VR, lots of straight typing.  No overseas.


2.  SoftScript.  I think all straight typing.  I do believe no overseas.


Please add to the list. It would be a helpful tool for many of us. Sorry I can't think of more, but then again, that is why I am creating this post. Thanks again.


 


Still good companies in my opinion...was not on the list. Check them out for yourself OP

Partial list of companies providing a computer...sm

Diskriter, Precyse, Opti-Script (Penn.), CIT (Charts in Time), WebMedX, Spheris, and Amphion.  Transcend used to. Maybe someone can say whether Transtech or MQ still do. I do not know if you have to be FT in order to get computer provided with any of these companies. Opti-Script in Penn. WILL provide one for part-timers. Good luck!


I just emailed Mr. Dobbs with a partial list of MT companies
that outsource that weren't on his list.  Thanks for the link!
good list of companies for straight typers
1. Keystrokes
2. SoftScript
3. Digital Transcription Systems, Inc. (DTS--Oklahoma)
4. TRS, LLC (N.Carolina)
5. Silent Type, Inc.
6. TransPro Medical Transcription, Inc.
7. New England Medical Transcription, Inc. (NEMT)
8. Southern Transcription Services,Inc (Georgia)
They're not listed on MTD's Companies list. Maybe do a Yahoo search? nm
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I have an idea..we should all start a list of MT companies that are no payers, bad payers, and late
but it is even worse when no one knows their record until they find out the hard way as they sit around waiting to get paid. I think it's rude to bounce checks, pay people late or not at all. We're not all working for free because we wanted to donate our time. We need to work to survive and those companies just prey on people. If they are getting paid, yet they can't pay their MTs, I'd say that someone doesn't know how to manage money. I just find it sad.
How do you know list is true? I can make a list,
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Off-shore men
These men are raised in a society where women are considered little more than property. Women have no voice, they are there strictly for the  convienence of the men. The men come here expecting to live their lives and run their businesses as they did in their home country. In fact, many of the home offices of the MT companies are now in the third world countries. Ithink offshoring is showing to be a big wake-up call to the average US citizen as to how the globalization of the economy is going to go. It is not they we are pulling anyone UP to our level, it is more like we are being pulled DOWN to their level doing business.   My experience with off-shored men is they have no respect for women, they are much less than honest, at least in business and any action justifies him getting what he wants. This is my experience from a business stand point.
No off-shore; they are big on that. sm
6 paid holidays, Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance, MetLife dental (GOOD dental plan), and I think a week of PTO first year but it goes up after that. I've been there a long time (almost 9 yrs) so I don't know what new MTs start at. I like the shift differential and the incentive plan; don't judge on your base line rate offer - you can make a lot more.
TransHealth does not off shore.
 
you said off shore and New grad MT's
which means if I pay my experienced MT's 9 cpl, then the newbie should get 4 cpl, because I have to pay an Editor 5 cpl to QA their stuff to get it up to the 9 cpl quality.  But then everybody screams about newbies only making 4 cpl????
Must of been one of her off-shore MTs posting that one nm
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Off Shore Folks
Last quote we got from an Indian company --- they were up to 7cpl for 24 hour TAT and 8cpl for 24 hour TAT. I suspect what with the continued decline of the value of the dollar, along with the concomitant raise in standard of living in India, this is an issue/problem which may be resolving itself.

Yes, some of the damage already done, but markets have a way of correcting themselves.

-- HD
Like Ascend. There is an off-shore
connection and the owner is ESL. 
Webmedx does not off-shore. nm
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I think that off-shore workers

You just summed that up for me.  I am glad you told the truth in that you like using slaves to transcribe who are none the wiser. 


As an IC, I choose my own hours, days, lines, etc.  You as an MTSO consider that whining, when it is the law. 


So if you sleep at night knowing you are abusing and mistreating offshore workers, then good for you!  It actually just proves you have no heart.


Another point I'd like to make is that if you need subs to make you money, you must be a horrible Transcriptionist yourself. 


Any doctor that old me he doesn't care who types, when, and how would be off of my list of good doctors and I wouldn't waste my time.  That doctor obviously doesn't care about people but only his own pocket and that would include you as the MTSO.  That same doctor that told you he/she doesn't care will drop you as an MTSO in a minute when he/she finds a better deal.


Always remember, we reap what we sow.  Try and have a good day, master!


North Shore
In Mass are you talking about. I was supposedly hired by them in 2004. They had me waste my gas and time driving there to train on their system. I was very well qualified if I don't mind saying. The owner has her little canary friend working for her.  They are not a company I would recommend. I feel they are dishonest and sneaky.  The owner sat with her fat arse in her office all day and counted her pennies. There line count was all funky..so just stay away.  
Does Spheris off-shore? Do they have a New Jersey
nm
Is this company off-shore owned? sm
I will bet this company is off-shore owned.  My experience has been these companies expect US workers to work like off-shore workers.  They think we are so grateful to have a job, any job, that they can walk all over us and we will take it, just like they do to their countrymen.  US workers who go along with this kind of illegal abuse, deserve what they are getting.  Make MT the job you want it to be, don't accept just anything.  Pick and choose the companies you work for, find out if they are off-shore owned with the token US front men.  Find the kind of accts you want to do and at a price that is agreeable to you.  Testing gets easier every time you do it.   Get proactive.  This will take time, don't rush yourself and don't quit one job until you have another up and in place. 
Silent Type definitely DOES NOT OFF SHORE!! (sm)
They are a great company to work for. CEO is totally hands on and knows whats going with her company; which is rare!! The more you produce the more you make, paid per page, not line!! A plus there, and bonus tiers for page counts. Once you try the best like ST, you won't regret the switch!
I understand they off shore to India and
may even have a company over seas as well. Not for me.
North Shore Transcription
Just curious if anyone here has ever worked for NST, Peabody, MA.
Most of the work is done off-shore. I feel
xx
I was told by their recruiter that they outsource off-shore.
x
North Shore Medical Transcription

Hi,


I just tried to send you an email but am not sure it went through. I worked for NSMT from 1991 till 1995 and all I can say is it's a very reliable and solid employer if you show you can be relied upon as well. It's really nice having a one-on-one rapport with the person(s) running the company. I ran across an ad recently by them on line, and its led by the same woman. She's a tough cookie, no nonsense, but a really good person and a terrific manager. As far as getting work and being paid on time, as an employee that was never a question for me. If she's doing IC these days, just keep in touch with her and she'll work with you I'm sure.


Everyone's different, but I'd say this company is definitely a good bet. I don't know what accounts they have these days, but there was a good variety. I worked on site at the Lahey Clinic most of my time there and it was a super assignment.


 


Correct --did NOT off-shore work to India sm
The rest of the post was **...SENT WORK TO INDIA A FEW MONTHS AGO** making it sound like MTs were laid off BECAUSE their work went to India.

If you have any familiarity with this company, you know that the none of the DRC/Acusis accounts are allowed by the clients to be typed outside of the US.

So YES, there was a lay-off, but NO it didn't have anything to do with India.

PS: Offshore and outsource are not the same thing. But you know that, too, right? ;-)
North Shore Transcription Company
Can anyone give me any information on this company.  I was thinking about applying.  I could not find a website for them on the Internet. 
Does Encompass off-Shore? Ad says "At this time,

I saw the ad they have on mtjobs and find it curious. 


They state:


At this time, we are unable to offer employment to persons living outside of the U.S.


Sounds like they have some non-US MTs working for them.  Do they off-shore?   Most ads just say NO NON-US Applicants, not AT THIS TIME? 


Any insight? 


Thanks. 


 


Does anyone have actual experience in the quality of off-shore work?
A physical therapist in my area said they kept a file of the funniest errors they received from the off-shore work. I do believe that most of the hospital staff that get the work back care diddly-squat about quality -- it's probably not read, only filed.
Correction
What determines their line? I am stressed these days. Thanks.
Correction
Sorry, title should read I Believe That...
Correction
Re: Why would anyone be WILLing to slave over this work for 27-YEAR-OLD wages?

Actually would be correct to have just said regressive wages...
Correction
this isn't clear:

The corporations call the shots with YOUR Congress/government primarily because AMERICANS are so easily pacified and distracted by the toys these corporations made for that exact purpose.

They (corporations) call the shots because of their influence; and CONGRESS helped to give them that power in the late 1800s by passing certain laws which gave the corp. similar rights to individuals...

I mixed two thoughts originally...

Correction - sorry
feedback on that PROGRAM (i.e. Isagenix), not problem.