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Have many Medquist MTs been placed on old Spheris accounts? - oldspherismt

Posted: Jun 18, 2010

Running out of work midweek on a previously high volume account and struggling to get my lines in now :( Wondering what's up.

I think I have been - I have a new

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hospital system (about 5 locations) from the plains states, but I only get that work after all my other familiar accounts are empty

I have a new - MarineMom

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I sent you an email, I hope you don't mind. I am Spheris too, and I think we might be working on the same account, as my volume is down, too. That didn't take long for them to load our platforms onto MQ MTs computers.

I have no new platform - just a new hospital system

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???? maybe I'm not doing Spheris work?

What platform do you work on?

My platform is still Cornerstone - oldspherismt

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and my account is in the south.

MarineMom I didn't get your email. nm - oldspherismt

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oldspherismt - MarineMom

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It may take awhile. I've never replied by email to anyone, so I don't know how it works or much about it. The account I work on is in Cornerstone too, but it is in ND. I have 2 other accounts that I work on too, and they are down in volume too, so who knows's what's going on.

It's going Global already - Spherite

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Had a team call and supe told us they are moving some of our general medicine accounts over.

Oh, and not replacing MTs - Spherite

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who are quitting either, just having smaller team and hopefully we will have enough work.

remember Cbay India - calls the shots now

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80% of all work is to be turned over to them by the end of the year:(

This may be a dumb question, but - MarineMom

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What if more than 20% of our Spheris accounts refuses to have their work shipped to India? I know at least 2 of the 3 hospitals I type for will not allow their work to go to India. Will they just go behind their back anyway?

They will probly convince them with big $$ - savings incentives ! NM

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NM

what's been done.. - sm

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with some accounts is they approach the clinics/departments associated with that hospital and try to get them individually outsourcing to ILP at a MUCH LOWER SERVICE RATE. For those still not willing to outsource, they will try to get them to OK it for just the transcription but then have all reports 100% QA'd by the USA side.

From what I've heard, the later part is usually what gets the unsure ones to OK the ILP work as they tend to be most concerned with report inaccuracies that can come with using an ILP.

If they're anything like Cbay, they'll send them anyway. - nm

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x

Same story - Just another MT from Spheris

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I work in Clarity, but in the last couple of weeks, work volume is waaaay down on the days we have full coverage (T,W,Th). Made decent money with Spheris. In the tank with the Q. Haven't even made my 6000 lines this week. :-(

Not to mention they fired my wonderful CCM.

Uh, huh. Now that's what we're talkin' about. - anonymous

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Since Spheris has come on, my primary has had - dnr

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practically no work. I don't know if we now have more MTs or CB sniped all the work.

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