Possibly About to be Outsourced to Mediscribes - from in-house job

Posted: Aug 07, 2013

Management says they are considering 4 MTSOs, and that we will probably be offered jobs with whichever they choose. Mediscribes is one of the four, so we have lots of questions about Mediscribes: Has anyone else here been hired by Mediscribes because their hospital outsourced to them? Did they keep you on the same account? Did they bring you on at one rate of pay, then cut your pay later (like Nuance does)? If yes, how much later and to what rate of pay? And for any Mediscribes MTs, whether you applied and hired on with them by choice or by outsourcing: Are you employees or independent contractors? Are you union? (Yes, I know, silly question -- but we are, so it may make a difference in terms of whether we can be forced to accept jobs with Mediscribes instead of severance pay.) Is it VR or straight typing? How much do they pay? I saw from a help-wanted ad on the Seekers board that they do count spaces and use a 65-character line. Do they count headers and footers/demographics? Canned text? Do you have to type in the demographics, or are they already pulled in? How cumbersome or not are cc:'s? How many lines per hour do MTs make there on average, if they've told you? Do you run out of work a lot? When you do run out of work, are you required to keep checking to see if work has come in during the rest of your shift? If yes, are you paid for that time spent checking? Is it like M*M and Nuance, with all of the easy work sent to India and the really bad dictators reserved for the US MTs? What's their minimum QA percentage to pass? Is QA usually fair or nitpicky and inconsistent? Are you penalized for sending blanks to QA, like MTs are at Nuance and M*Modal? What can you tell me about their health insurance and vacation? THANK YOU for any info