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Emdat company? - MTgal

Posted: Jun 22, 2012

I'm confused. I interviewed for an IC position for what they said is an Emdat company. But looking online, Emdat is a platform, not an MT company. Can someone please clarify? The rates are really low for an IC and they don't pay for characters that are in normals. Plus she said you work for all different accounts--just log on and grab work off the system when you're scheduled. Is that on the up and up? How can you have a schedule and be an IC? Lots of red flags, especially the rates.

Emdat company - lexluther

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Emdat is a platform and from what I understand is also a company, or maybe that is Emdat Inscribe. Someone else may know more about that. Anyway, if you don't mind posting the company name, someone here can probably tell you if they're on the up and up. I worked for a company a few years back that sounds exactly like the one you are describing and everything was fine with them, pay on time, no pay issues, etc, but I did eventually leave because I was offered something better. I think technically as an IC you submit your own hours that you wish to work and whatever, but I've worked as an IC for companies that prefer you pick some type of schedule and stick to it, just so they know people's availability for STAT jobs and when work is heavy, etc. I don't know what kind of rate this one is offering you, but the rates are getting lower and lower and you're the only one who can decide if you can make money at it with the proposed line rate or if it's not worth your time. Good luck.

MTgal - Old Pro

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Go to the IRS website and read the rules. If you are an IC, then cannot set your schedule. They want to have their cake and eat it, too. I say, RUN!

Illegal use of ICs - anon

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IMO the illegal use of ICs has done more to devalue our industry than any other factor. When MTs were employed by the hospitals, they were seen and valued, received benefits, and had a place at the table. Yes, outsourcing was tough, but for those companies that treated MTs as employees, they were still a valuable part of the process. However, when MTSOs started illegally classifying MTs as ICs, paying them no benefits and not contributing to their overall compensation package (SS, payroll taxes, insurance, workman's comp, unemployment, etc.), the industry further declined. And then because they got back with that (at least for now until the IRS catches up with them), they further dut the rates, pocketing more of the money themselves, and now professional MTs are treated just like the guy who cuts the grass or the lady who cleans your house. That's why we've lost our value in healthcare. We're nobodies--not because we are no body, but because we've allowed MTSOs to treat us like nobodies. Paying ICs 6 and 7 cents a line and 3 to 4 for VR is just lining the pockets of the owners. And we're sitting still for it, instead of filing for unemployment--but wait, we can't file for UI because we've been working as ICs.

Incorrect information - ICMT

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I really wish people would stop telling others that you cannot be given a set schedule if you are a contractor. That's wrong. You most certainly can be given a schedule and most professions where there are contractors they are given a schedule. It's not a cake and eating it too issue. There are plenty of legitimate issues that fall into that category but a schedule is NOT one of them.

I agree - IC

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They have to be able to have some sort of idea when they will have coverage. I wouldn't want to hire a "contractor" to do a repair on my house and them say that they will be there and then decide, eh I don't feel like it today, and not show up.

I agree - IC - Old Pro

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There is a wide gulf between "some idea of when" and setting a schedule. Read the IRS materials for yourself.

Incorrect Info - MTTX

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As a contractor, you cannot be given a set schedule. A company giving you set hours would make you an employee. They can ask you what schedule you would like to work and terminate your contract if you don't stick to that schedule.

Inscribe Emdat - EmdatQA

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Inscribe Emdat is a software platform that individual companies can utilize to offer various transcription-based services. You could personally utilize the platform if you wished to pay for it. So a company decide to use Emdat and may even use a version of "Inscribe" or "Emdat" as part of their business name. I know of one company who uses Inscribe and two others who have Emdat in their company names.

As far as telling you to avoid or embrace the particular company you are talking about, I couldn't do either because the information you gave is too vague to know exactly to whom you refer.

As far as working a set schedule, yes, a company can tell an IC "here is when we have work available" without violating every IRS IC rule.

As far as low pay, again, you were vague and my idea of low pay could be less than your idea of low pay.

The Emdat platform allows for a different level of pay for templated work, but I have never heard of anyone paying nothing at all for templated work. That is unusual. The lowest pay on that platform for QT (qualified text) or templated work that I have heard of is 1 cpl.

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