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Meridian Healthcare Solutions - care to comment on how it is today? - MLS

Posted: Oct 30, 2012

Any current Meridian employees out there that care to comment on how it is today? Thanks in advance.

Meridian - anon

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I just left Meridian was there only a short while due to health reasons. Nice people, enough work, but very, very strict on QA. Go for it, but be prepared for extensive training. I learned a lot.

Meridian HCS - anon

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I have been with this company for a few years. The accounts are pretty good overall. I changed my shift to accommodate for the no/low work situation. I really don't mind flexing my schedule, but you get absolutely no appreciation for your work or for flexing to help them, and in fact, only hear negative feedback. I don't even mind that so much as when I get audited 15-20 audits per week and get no support when the auditor is incorrect and I can prove the auditor is wrong. I will e-mail the information to the manager and be told "not to worry about it." The rules change often and you only find out when an audit comes back and then a week later it will go back to the first way. Very confusing when you try to do good work. When there is low/no work, you are expected to flex to accommodate them, and regardless of there being no work for your scheduled shift, you are required to make up those lines when work is available, so essentially you could easily be working 12-14 hours to get your lines in. When they need help, you are to put in extra, but of course no extra pay (other than getting more lines of course). I work 7 days a week and am making $15,000 less than I made last year due to VR and straight typing line rate changes. I do love the flexibility (I like working 3rd shift) and the account (as opposed to other companies I have worked for) is overall pretty good. I just wish I were more appreciated for my willingness to work when they need help and more support on the issues with the changes in audits. As I mentioned earlier, you only hear negative feedback. Also, every time you get a stat, an incorrect job number, incorrect staff ID number, incorrect date, etc, you must e-mail the client and QA. This wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have more than 20 e-mails a day that you are required to send/respond to that you are not paid for and if you don't respond, you will get a phone call, which also interrupts your work. Plus you need to look at your feedback from your audits, and again, you are not paid for this. Also, the VR is a joke. It does not learn and puts absolutely awful dictators on VR. Even good dictators are terrible on VR; the only positive is they are easy to understand to make the changes. Even though there are things that I don't like, I do like this company more than others I have worked at. It just is hard to make so much less money for working more hours and doing the same exact job as last year. Oh well...the price to pay for staying at home, I guess. :)

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