ask your senators and representatives to support this bill
Posted By: medtransgrl on 2008-05-23
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One thing you can do is contact your senators and representatives and encourage them to vote for the following bill:
S. 810/H.R. 1653
Clinton (D-NY)/Markey (D-MA)
Prohibits American businesses and health care organizations from sharing consumers’ personal information with foreign affiliates or subcontractors without consent from consumers. Allows consumers to “opt out” of having their personal information processed overseas and bars companies from denying service or charging consumers more as a result.
Go to http://www.congress.org for a very user-friendly way to identify and contact your elected officials on the State and Federal Levels.
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If the bill is currently in limbo, why would they assign the same bill number to another bill?
I'm not trying to argue with you here and I think that outsourcing is a very important issue that needs to be addressed by congress. What I'm saying is make sure you have all the correct information.
I cannot believe that representatives from any company would come on to this or any other board
and call a poster a liar! My God, that is truly the most unprofessional thing ever. If this person worked for my company, they would be terminated before they could bat an eye! That KS thinks that this is acceptable makes my head hurt. The thing with these boards is that you pretty much have to just ignore what's being said about you. Every single company in this business has, or will have, something bad posted about them at some point. Ignore it and move on. By coming to the board to publically refute the allegations you are just lending credence to the issue and dragging it out. Not to mention looking like a classless, tactless idiot.
Then contact your senators & congresspeople and tell them
That's the most important thing we MTs must accomplish, and we need to do it SOON.
I wrote AAMT, the President, and my senators tonight...sm
I'm also going to write my local paper and contact some news organizations.
Job listing clearly states "Work At Home Virtual assistant/Representatives within our Customer Se
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Found this by using GOOGLE.
try transriptiongear.com's tech support. They do gearplayer tech support whereever you bought yo
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We are ALREADY footing the bill and have
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It has to do with how they bill their customers. nm
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every wonder if they still bill the company cpl?
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What company were you with that sent this $$$$ bill?
NM
A bill you pay is different than getting paid.
The benefit of the doubt is given in this instance. In this case, the pay date should have been the 5th since the actual pay date is the 7th, then the money should have been there on the 5th. This is a paycheck, not an authorized bill coming out of your account. The work was done, and the pay should have been there. My company always pays ahead of time if the pay date falls on a weekend day. It's a matter of courtesy. 
phone bill
Vonage is reasonable and offers a plan with unlimited long distance. I have had it for about 6 months and am happy with it. They also offer the option of paying yearly where you can save even more money.
Sure, and pass the bill on...
to who exactly? The consumer? The American people who are already being ripped off when it comes to healthcare? Some of you just want more and more and more, but you have no clue as to where this mystery money will come from.
You are right. Even Bill Gates dropped
the whole idea of VR, saying that it could not be perfected enough to be profitable for the software company who manufactures it. You are also right in that if something inferior is sold to someone and it doesn't work properly, they won't even think of using it again. In my experience, the C-phone worked the best and even WP5.1 for speed and from my point of view for making the most money. I also used to use Mac and found it to be very fast and efficient.
ICs should foot the bill, not employees.
Are these people employed at Keystrokes or are they contracted MTs paying for long distance and equipment? Ehhh? 
Do you have employees or do you have ICs? I see a difference there whether you are transcribing in an RV or an office, still the same should apply. If an MT is classified as an employee, the employer should provide equipment free of charge and pay any and all expense incurred while that person is employed. IC is a whole different ball of wax. 
You'd do better to bill by the audio minute; I'd bill $0.75 per minute of audio.
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Can anyone tell me what a "standard MT" is. Bill Baker is SM
looking for them and since I live in the southeast too, I want to know what that is.
Here is a petition to sign for HR 427, a bill regarding
that very thing. Please forward it to everyone you know as well:
http://www.rallycongress.com/support-for-h-r-427-nabopia/1585/support-h-r-427-notify-americans-before-outsourcing-personal-information/
Like Bill Clinton read the big bible...
he used to tote around on Sunday photo ops!
Re: The Calif. bill: The "Governator" shot it down. (no msg)
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I didn't get the letter, just a $600 phone bill.
Their unlimited is only 5,000 minutes and you can use that is 2 weeks or less. You need to use a service like Vonage. Comcast and Time Warner cable also have digital phone service. It uses your regular phone wiring, they just attach something on the outside of your house and you use a modem and it is truly unlimited long distance.
If you want to keep your home phone it takes about 2 weeks to get the service. If you want to keep your home phone and just add a new line they should be able to do it in just a couple of days. I have mine through Time Warner and it is $34.95/mo because I also have my cable internt through them. Vonage is cheaper, I think $24.95/mo.
I've only had my service about 3 weeks, but the sound is very good and I've had no problems using it wtih my C-phone. I wanted to keep my same number, but didn't want to add another phone line to keep costs down. I have call waiting but can't get it to work with the C-phone so I got voice mail for an additional $4/mo so I can still get messages even if I'm working.
Mark bill and envelope "CONFIDENTIAL,"
address to doctor personally with a handwritten note attached to your bill stating, Will you please have someone take care of this? This happened to me. The office manager was embezzling funds which he knew nothing about it until I brought my bill to his attention. My bill has been paid immediately in the 15+ years since then. Good luck.
company-paid phone bill?? sm
Crazy question, have high speed internet and AOL for my mail. I do not have unlimited long distance. Is there any company for whom you would not run up a huge phone charge, could not do that! Crazy question, I know - but doesn't hurt to ask.
No, but one place would do it after we sent a copy of the bill with our invoice, or mailed it
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Big facilities contract out MT through administration. Drs have no say, they dont pay the bill.
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Wow .. thanks for letting me know. They bill themselves as a small, caring company. sm
The pay isn't much, but I was just going to use it to supplement my income while work is light at my regular job. So much for caring ... who needs their pitifully low offerings anyway? Bah humbug ... LOL
paid by direct deposit on time, and you submit the bill nm
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I can handle micromanage and cherries, but its the bill collectors I want to stay away
You see, to me it is more than worrying about micromanaging and cherry picking. I have been in the biz long enough to develop a rough skin. It is when I do not have enough money to pay the rent or car which bothers me. So, I take the shift least wanted b/c there will be work there, I allow micromanaging and say I will do better next time, and I learn all the toughest ESLs without complaint. You see, no one can control another person, and one should know no job is perfect out there. The only thing a person can and should do is mature-up, quit whining, and get to work so the roof stays overhead, the pantry has milk and bread and the car is still outside. Of course, that is my 2.5 cents.
Weekly? Services are lucky if they get paid twice a month. Generally, services bill out to their
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You bill 30 days behind, and they snail mail it so it's late - about 40 days from invoice
No way jose - they even messed up their direct deposit payments
I meant billing process, not bill paying process.. sorry! nm
Webmedx fits that bill, great company, great benefits, great pay and always on time. NM
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Thanks for the support
Wow, thanks everyone. Working at home alone sometimes you don't wonder if it's all your imagination. And no, doesn't start with a P -- it's Webmedx.
Thanks for the support... you are right!
They already got in trouble once. An Indian employee was holding patient information in an extortion attempt for money from the company. I guess they didn't learn their lesson.
That's why they got US MTs in the first place, to land the big accounts. Once they start slipping away again and they need new accounts, we'll see them posting hiring bonuses. LOL!
I support you in this
and just sent a letter to the appropriate instructor in the sociology department at our biggest university. I will send it out to some other sociologists over the next few days. Thanks for suggesting this.
thanks for the support!
She got me on the wrong day. I just resigned today, and cried while I was typing the letter. I am not a fighter, and have never gotten into it with anyone on these boards, but she jumped down my throat, acting like I was a thief. I will ask my supervisor if it is alright, if not, I won't bother, just make new ones. However, they are my expansions, ones that I painstakingly made up over the last few years trying to keep my income up with all the changes. I was not a cheerleader the last few years, but I hung in there by my fingernails thinking things would get straightened out and get better or at least somewhat back to where we were, not worse. My income has dropped by $150 to $200 a week. I don't know many people who can afford that, and I know I can't anymore. I don't think its going to change anytime soon except maybe for the worst, but for the MTs there, I pray it does.
US Support????
In two years with Focus I had contact with only ONE support individual that was US based. I stayed for wo years so no, it was not as bad as some would lead you to believe, but to say the support staff is US based is misleading at best.
Support
Actually, it's nice to know there's some support out there from fellow employees. Nobody in this discussion got me personally riled up. I was more riled up and concerned than when I came on this board and read the discussion, so it did me some good. We mostly just want some reassurance from you MDI-MD veterans that this isn't the norm. I'm appreciative of all the suggestions from my fellow employees, even though I'm a newbie to MDI-MD. The liaisons sound like they're pretty understanding and will work with you, so that works for me. :)
Thank you for your support.
You know what, I don't understand any of this and kind of confused right now. But thanks a lot for your support. I have done cardiology reports for quite a long time and worked at Cardiology Clinic, where that is all I did 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. This is what they were testing for. So, I really do believe I did very good on test. I know all the medications without looking anything up in reference books. Also I have transcribed hundreds of echocardiograms and stress tests, etc.
Anyway, I am not going to fret over this. In fact, Keystrokes just called and would like to offer me a position with their company. So, who cares about MD-IT. Also Keystrokes is starting me at higher rate of pay. Maybe this was a good turn of events that I got turned down by MD-IT, because look what happened. I believe that sometimes we do not always understand things that happen, but in the long run things usually work out for the best. I am definitely an optimist in life and try to always look on the bright side. It helps in this line of work.
Thank you everybody who had positive things to say and for your support.
Thanks for the support. This is what I think
When I started with the Q, I had an office with humans I could go to for things. I actually got 2 days of really good training on the accounts I had and could call someone and get a live question answered at that moment. They could even listen in on something and help me figure it out if I couldn't understand.
You know what it is now. I never had a dread at working for the Q until the last year or so. Now it is severe irritation when I log on because I have used half my PTO up due to no work and all. When I emailed my supe a couple weeks back about no work, he said oh it is just because of the weather. I am sorry, I have been running out of work for the last MONTH straight. It is February. I have never had no work on these accounts in February. EVER--in over 9 years.
I wouldn't care if I wasn't required to put in the hours. I would go do something else. But here I sit and I hate that more than anything.
support
Hi
You sound like you are so happy at your new job. I am feeling so discouraged at mine and really want to quit. Do you know if your company is hiring? I have lots of experience. Would really love to hear from you either way.
Thanks,
Discouraged Debbie
Support?
Are you SERIOUS??? Two years ago they had a terrific support group, now you're lucky if you get called back within half a day...There was one instance where I had to upgrade a program, it was mandatory, and I called support. This person talked to me and asked to sign on to my computer (standard procedure). They then asked that I stay nearby my computer in case of questions on their part. Well, I did that and after an hour and nothing happening, I gave up. Called shortly after and was told the person was at lunch!!! Can you believe this??? Mind you, this was one of my days off (I purposely did this because I knew how much work I would lose on one of my regular days). I was told it would take up to an hour, well after it all had been done, it took over 3! Yeah, some day off. It was almost like they were chatting with other people in the office or on the phone, or SOMETHING, cause they would never respond to their prompt for the next step for minutes at a time. I was very irritated by it. I absolutely cringe when support is needed at TT and avoid it at all costs! 
Thank all of you for your support!
I appreciate every kind word. It helps me knowing that you have all been where I have been.
I am so fortunate to get the opportunity to work for TransTech. I have heard so many great things and part of me can't wait to dive in but the other part says don't let go. I have been so darn loyal to the Q and they never cared.
I hope Transtech appreciates my loyalty. I want this to be my last job change!
Thanks again.
Thanks to all of you for your support. s/m
It makes me feel very humble. I never back down and they have made me ANGRY. I'm not sure if I will have to attend court in Texas or not since I haven't lived there in 20 years but if I do, so be it.
Good support when I need it
Precyse has set up an excellent system through IM and what they call MT Mentor. Not only can you get instant messages for STAT, but get feedback on reports requested. "Fill in the blank" has never been so rewarding.
tech support
The tech support is very good and very reliable at Spheris. A nice solid company.
They are also in support of TRS training
women in Trinidad to do transcription, so I'm sure more work will be leaving the states. I was not going to accept their offer anyway because the line rate was 2 cpl less than what I was currently making, but then when I asked if they offshored the recruiter reluctantly said they did if they client requested it. Now who in their right mind thinks that CyMed, or any other company for that matter, goes into a facility to sell their service and says we offshore to xx country, would you like them to do your work?
Thank you for caring. We need the support right now. nm
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Support I think is needed
The first and foremost would be promotion of US-based transcription for US-based patients. I feel there are major, major privacy issues at hand there, and I would personally have trouble with my personal info being shipped overseas.
Certification I think is very, very debatable. AAMT has tried to make a standard practice, but really it isn't. You have to be certified and continue with education to be a nurse because those practices are standard and regulated pretty much across the board without too much difference. MTs have to do what the client at the time asks, and there is a ton a variation between companies and clients. I have worked for a lot of different places and have yet to find one that follows even half of the important rules of the BOS.
I also think another organization should point out certain advantages to being an MT, at home or otherwise. AAMT wants you of course to buy books and whatnot from their store, but there are many other resources online that are available to us simply because we are members of the medical field; most are free. Working at home gets you discounts on things like car insurance (cut mine in half). There are many advantages to ousourcing companies that hire at-home employees as well which are growing all the time.
I would absolutely participate as much as I can in getting something like this going. AAMT as decided where they are which is perfectly okay. They just now need replaced.
People Support. sm
I have worked for these guys for 1-1/2 years. Pay always on time, every time. I have had one raise in pay, as was promised when I started. I've never worked with better folks. Please email me with any questions.
Support/Experience
Seems like a lot of companies are hiring inexperienced management who cannot even type an op note, do not have the skills a manager should have, which should be equivalent to a MT/QA/Editor - but maybe they pay them less just to scooter people around on accounts and make out schedules. Everyone suffers because of them -they do squelch communication, do not promote growth, and want absolute power. Theres no way of dealing with these kind of people other than to just shut up and let them have their throne and their little cutout paper crown.
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