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Hospital Transcription Department to National Company - Curious

Posted: Apr 29, 2014

Is there anybody here who worked for a hospital in the transcrption department only to have their jobs yanked out from under t hem and sent to a National such as Nuance? I know somebody who works for a local hospital and it looks like they secretly are in the process of making this move....some very strange secretive things going on that makes me wonder...... What was the process for your hospital if this happened to you????? I'm wondering if my suspicions are spot-on.

Didn't this happen with a University Hospital - in PA?

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I have no personal knowledge of this, but I seem to remember hearing something along these lines.

Hospital transcription department to national company - Tinker

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UPMC in Pittsburgh was the university hospital in Pittsburgh. The same thing happened to me at a different hospital in Southwestern Pennsylvania but went with another company.

hospital transcription - outsourcing

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That happened at the hospital I worked at. We were all offered jobs with the outsourcing company if we wanted to take it but only about half went with the outsourcing company. The supervisors were kept on to answer the phone and edit the work from the outsourcing company. We were also offered something called priority placement meaning every job I applied for I was automatically granted an interview as long as I qualified. Outsourcing was something that was talked about for years and the amount that was outsourced gradually increased. We were scared for years and it was coming and we were always told they would never go to total outsource and then it happened one day.

happened to me in like 2003 approx - ExMeridianer

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At a Baltimore area hospital. It started a year before the rug was pulled.. they decided to increase our requirements by 50% production, and simultaneously took away our PTO. Zip, no time off anymore.."but look at it this way, you'll be making so much more money with the new requirements" they told us. A year later, after typing our fingers to the grind, we were outsourced to MedQuist or whatever they called themselves at that time Transcriptions Ltd maybe.. same demons. We were told we could keep our jobs and work for the hospital through the new company... of course that meant doing the same job we were paid 0.13 cents per line for and now only getting .07 cents per line. :) Such an insult.

I now work for another Baltimore area hospital's Transcription office and I am no fool, I'm just waiting on the day. They are slowing introducing Epic, and I just know they will do the same, but do they tell us of their plans for us? No. They keep us in the dark. such bullshit. This is our lives, they dont care.

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